Summer Internship Records All-time High

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Internship offers for Summer 2020 have crossed the 500-mark at IIT Kharagpur. The internship process which started in August 2019 has been soaring high compared to last year’s figure which was comparatively lower with the closing figure at 461.

IIT Kharagpur’s Career Development Centre has further witnessed an increasing trend in the internship season. More than seventy-five companies have already visited the campus. The most encouraging fact is that the campus has witnessed the participation and presence of all the sectors like IT/Software, Analytics/ Consulting, e-Commerce, Banking and Healthcare though IT/ software.

Career Development Centre (CDC) is optimistic that in the second phase of the Internship process which starts from the second week of January 2020, the Institute can register the highest number of Internships of recent times. Now, the Institute is gearing up for placements which starts from 1st December 2019 onwards.

Also, the pre-placement offers received till now for the placement session of 2019-20 is already close to last year’s final PPO figure of 261.

Talking about the current market scenario and its potential impact on the recruitment, Prof. G P Rajasekhar, Chairman at IIT Kharagpur’s Career Development Centre remarked, “The internship season outperformed the digits that we achieved during the last few years. Also, the PPOs rate is very encouraging. We took proactive measures to attract companies by reviewing our Company Relation Index (CRI) and then upgraded a few companies.”

A supposed challenge of 2.30 hours distance from Kolkata airport is also being addressed.

“We are stretching our wings to accommodate more companies on a given day so that companies do have enough pool of students each day,” he added.

By Shreyoshi Ghosh

12 Comments

  • BIPRAJIT DATTA -

    Sir, I am a 2nd year mechanical engineering student at NIT, Agartala. I want to take an internship on 2020 Summer. Please guide me.

  • sunil godbole -

    my son will be completing first year of IT engineering in April 2020 . he has done additionally NPTEL courses . Is he eligible for 2020 summer internship ?

  • KAMAL THAKUR -

    Sir/mam, I am 2nd year student of electrical engineering from GAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. I want to do internship in summer internship 2020.what I do?

  • Aakash yadav -

    Sir/mam, my name is aakash yadav. I am a student of aeronautical engineer student from jaipur (School of aeronautical). I want to do a summer intern in summers 2020 in aeronautical field . So, plzz sir/mam help me , how i can intern in iit kharagpur

  • sheetanshu deepak -

    dear sir/ma’am,
    I am studying in NIT Tiruchirapplli M.Tech first year in Energy Engineering. I want to do summer internship 2020 in Computational Fluid Dynamics related topic. Is I am eligible now?

    • Shreyoshi Ghosh -

      Kindly contact the concerned faculty. This is the news website of IIT Kharagpur.

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