The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has demonstrated remarkable consistency in its BTech placement outcomes over the past three years, with computer science and technology roles continuing to command the highest salary packages. According to available institute data and media reports spanning from 2023 to 2025, the placement landscape has evolved significantly while maintaining strong recruiter participation across diverse sectors.
Shifting Student Preferences and Placement Performance
Professor Kamal Kishore Pant, Director of IIT Roorkee, previously highlighted a noticeable transformation in student career preferences. In an earlier conversation with The Indian Express, he observed that students are increasingly leaning toward IT, finance, and consulting roles, often motivated by attractive starting packages and traditional office-based work environments.
This shift in student aspirations has coincided with the institute's steady placement performance across multiple hiring cycles. The available data reveals consistent recruiter engagement, competitive compensation packages, and robust hiring patterns particularly in technology, analytics, and related domains.
Computer Science Leads Compensation Trends
The placement data from 2023 onward clearly establishes Computer Science and allied technology roles as the frontrunners in terms of compensation. The 2023 placement season witnessed approximately 500 job offers for BTech students, featuring an exceptional domestic package of Rs 1.3 crore and an international offer exceeding Rs 1.06 crore.
Consulting, data sciences, core tech engineering, and analytics positions emerged as the highest-paying categories during this period. The following year brought even more encouraging results, with the 2024 placement season recording over 600 offers, indicating a substantial year-on-year increase in hiring volume.
Remarkably, the highest domestic package remained at Rs 1.3 crore, matching the previous year's benchmark. International opportunities, though limited to four major roles, reflected strong niche demand for IIT Roorkee talent. Early indicators from the 2025 placement season suggest similar salary patterns, with top domestic packages again reaching the Rs 1.3 crore mark, reinforcing steady compensation standards for computer science-related roles.
Department-Wise Salary Distribution
The median salary patterns across different engineering departments reveal interesting trends about market demand and specialization value. Based on placement reports and media estimates, here's how various departments performed:
Computer Science engineering maintained its leadership position with median salaries growing from 28-30 lakhs in 2023 to 31-33 lakhs in 2025. Electronics and Communication engineering followed closely, showing consistent improvement from 20-22 lakhs to 22-24 lakhs during the same period.
Electrical Engineering demonstrated steady growth with median packages moving from 18-20 lakhs to 20-22 lakhs. Mechanical Engineering salaries saw moderate improvement from 14-16 lakhs to 15-17 lakhs, while Civil Engineering packages increased from 12-14 lakhs to 13-15 lakhs. Chemical Engineering maintained stable median salaries in the 13-15 lakh range across the three-year period.
Recruiter Participation and Sectoral Diversity
IIT Roorkee's placement cycles have attracted a balanced mix of recruiters from technology, analytics, manufacturing, and consulting sectors. The 2023 placement season saw participation from approximately 63 companies offering nearly 500 roles, with prominent recruiters including BCG, Bajaj Auto, Flipkart, and Tata Steel.
Media reports indicated that consulting and analytics firms demonstrated particularly strong engagement that year. By 2024, the campus witnessed a dramatic surge in recruiter participation, with around 140 companies visiting the institute. Traditional recruiters maintained their engagement while several new-age tech startups and product-based firms expanded their presence.
The sectoral diversity widened considerably to include AI-driven roles, deep-tech startups, and global analytics teams, alongside established recruiters from core engineering sectors. The 2025 placement trends suggest continuation of this pattern, with strong representation across consulting, manufacturing, software engineering, analytics, electric vehicle technology, and financial engineering domains.
Internships and Pre-Placement Offers
Internships have become increasingly crucial to IIT Roorkee's placement ecosystem. The 2023 cycle displayed vigorous internship activity that significantly contributed to full-time hiring outcomes. Media reports indicate that Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) increased substantially in 2024 due to growing reliance on internship pipelines by technology and consulting firms.
Stipend ranges varied across departments, with Computer Science and Electronics and Communication engineering students receiving the highest figures, followed by Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical engineering disciplines. This trend underscores the importance of internship conversions in the overall placement strategy.
Consistent High Packages and International Opportunities
A distinctive feature across the 2023-2025 placement cycles has been the stability of the highest domestic package, consistently recorded at Rs 1.3 crore. While these top offers represent exceptional cases, they reflect IIT Roorkee's strong reputation among high-paying technology and consulting companies.
International packages remained selective yet competitive, with the Rs 1.06 crore package recorded in 2023 and additional international offers in subsequent years, according to limited data available in media reports. The three-year placement cycle demonstrates noticeable growth in both recruiter participation and total job offers, with the institute achieving a near 100% placement rate for participating BTech students across these years.
Alternative Career Pathways
While the majority of IIT Roorkee BTech students opt for campus placements, a significant number pursue higher education at global universities, engage in research fellowships, or join product-based startups. The institute's robust research ecosystem, including the Centre for Innovative Design and Development and various interdisciplinary laboratories, supports students exploring academic or entrepreneurial pathways.
International exchange programs and research opportunities continue to provide alternative career avenues for students looking beyond traditional placement routes, further enhancing the institute's comprehensive career development framework.
