184 companies offered 831 jobs to IIT-M students

Chennai, Dec 9 (IANS) A total of 831 job offers were made to the students of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) by 184 companies during the first phase of campus placements.The offers included 34 international jobs by 17 companies, IIT-M said in a statement issued here on Monday.According to the IIT-M, the total number of offers stands at 998 if the 167 pre-placement offers were included.The Phase II of the placements will begin in the second half of January 2020.A total of 1,298 students were in the fray for the campus Phase I Placements during 2019-20.Including the accepted Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs), a total of 848 students have already been placed.This is around the same as last year (2018-19) when 844 students had been placed at the end of Phase I.
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