IIT Placements: BTech placement data from 19 of the 23 IITs shows that three-quarters of them saw an increase in the percentage of students placed in 2024-25 compared to the previous year, when placements declined sharply across most IITs.
Despite the increase, placement figures for 2024-25 remain below those of 2021-22 across all 19 IITs.
In response to RTI applications filed with 23 IITs on BTech placement data for 2024-25, 19 provided data. BTech placement data from 2021-22 to 2023-24 was presented in a Parliamentary Standing Committee report earlier this year. Data from the March 2025 report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, chaired by Digvijay Singh, showed that placements in more than half of the country’s 23 IITs had declined by more than 10 percentage points in 2023-24 compared to 2021-22. The report described the decline in placements in all but one IIT as “abnormal.”
IIT Placements Placement Percentage:
Of the 19 IITs for which the latest data is available, 13 had a placement percentage of over 90% in 2021-22. These included IIT Roorkee (98.54%), IIT Kanpur (93.63%), IIT Patna (97.65%), IIT Indore (96.74%), IIT Mandi (98.13%), and IIT Goa (98.65%). However, in 2024-25, only two of the 19, IIT Mandi and Goa, crossed 90%, while IIT Bhubaneswar remained at 90%. The latest numbers range from 75.65% at IIT Guwahati and 78% at IIT Bhilai to 95% at IIT Mandi.
IIT directors said that after the slowdown in 2023-24, efforts were made to reach out to more companies.
With IIT placements figures remaining lower than those of 2021-22, Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Director, IIT Ropar, stated that students transitioning to start-ups and higher education, as well as those who have received job offers but not through the placement office, will not be included in the placement figures.
At IIT Ropar, this figure dropped from 88% in 2021-22 to 75% in 2023-24, and increased to 80% in 2024-25. The number of students seeking placement increased from 252 (2021-22) to 292 (2023-24), and 321 (2024-25).
