Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, better known as IISc Bangalore has an active placement cell that conducts placement drives every year. The institute commenced its 2022 placement drive from October 2021. Students received an average salary of INR 23 LPA. The highest salary stood at INR 60 LPA. 

During IISc Bangalore Placements 2021, 276 students out of 528 graduating students were placed. Among them, 6 were UG students & 270 were PG students. A total of 130 students opted out from the placement drive to pursue higher studies. The median salary stood at INR 13.50 LPA for the UG students, INR 20 LPA for the 2 years PG students & INR 21.69 LPA for the 3 years PG students. The median salary of UG students increased by 30% as compared to the previous year. 

Some of the past recruiters included Adobe, India Bulls, Siemens, L&T, Tech Mahindra, ICICI bank, Cognizant, Birla Soft, Cipla etc.   

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IISc Bangalore Placements 2022 Report

Particular Placements Statistics 2022
Highest salary INR 60 LPA
Average salary INR 23 LPA

During IISc Bangalore Placements 2022, students received an average salary of INR 23 LPA. The highest salary stood at INR 60 LPA.

IISc Bangalore Placements Year – Wise Trends

The below table shows the year-wise trends of IISc Bangalore Placements:

Particular 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19
Total number of students 528 368 467
Number of students placed 276 204 254
Number of students opted out 130 86 145

During the 2021 placement drive, total number of graduating students increased from 368 to 528. The number of students placed increased from 204 to 276. The number of opted out students increased from 86 to 130.

The below graph shows the year-wise salary trends of IISc Bangalore Placements:

IISc Bangalore Year - Wise Trends

During the 2021 placement drive, the median salary of the UG students increased from INR 10 LPA to INR 13.50 LPA. But, the median salary of 2 years & PG batch & 3 years PG batch declined as compared to the previous year.

IISc Bangalore Placements 2021 Report

Particular Placements Statistics 2021
Total number of students 528
Number of students placed 276
Number of students opted out 130
Median salary INR 21.69 LPA

During the 2021 placement drive, a total of 276 students out of 528 graduating students got placed. 130 students opted out from the placement drive to pursue their higher studies. The median salary stood at INR 21.69 LPA for the PG students.

IISc Bangalore Placements 2021 Course – wise

The below table shows the course-wise placement highlights of IISc Bangalore Placements 2021:

Particular UG PG ( 2 years) PG (3 years)
Total number of students 91 386 51
Number of students placed 6 234 36
Number of students opted out 85 30 15
Median salary INR 13.50 LPA INR 20 LPA INR 21.69 LPA

During IISc Bangalore Placements 2021, the median salary of the 3 years PG batch was the highest among all the courses. 6 UG students, 234 PG (2 years) students & 36 PG (3 years) students got placed. 85 UG students, 30 PG(2 years) students & 15 PG (3 years) students opted out from the placement drive.

 IISc Bangalore Salary Statistics 2020

More than 50% of students earned a package of more than 20 LPA. The Distribution of students on the basis of package procurement are shown below in the tabulated form :

  • Institute witnessed the highest package to be INR 40 LPA.
  • Average Package Stands at INR 10 LPA.
  • The engineering sector was the major participant in the institute which was followed by the research domain.
  • The Education and Business development sector stands at almost level position with 15% and 12% respectively.
  • The percentage of students out of the batch of 2019-20 getting a package of more than INR 40 LPA stands at 5% with the positive response coming from the engineering side, this stat is in accordance with the fact that the institute is engineering and research-centric.
  • Core companies also participated with full concentration on engineering and research background students.
  • Top recruiting companies include Oracle, Toshiba, Godrej & Godrej, HSBC, Intel, Mahindra, Cisco, Dell, HP, KPMG, Walmart, EY, etc.
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IISc Bangalore Placement 2020 Sector-wise

The students received offers from different sectors in the placement season of 2019 in various companies. Different courses performed differently or positively with major participation or recruitment coming from Engineering, Research, Education, and Business Development Section. The performance of different sectors have been shown below in the graphical form :

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IISc Bangalore Recruiters 2020

Top recruiting companies involve IBM, Amazon, Myntra, Goldman Sachs, EXIDE, AMDA, Microsoft, ABB, SAMSUNG, Qualcomm, Citi, Mercedez, SAPIENT, TATA Steel, TCS, J P Morgan, etc. The top recruiters of IISc Bangalore include giant names like TATA, Reliance, Max India, etc.

This is the list of recruiters visiting the IISc campus for the recruitment of students. 

Adobe Siemens L&T Lanco
Ericsson Essar Cognizant ERA
India Bulls Tech Mahindra ICICI Bank Aurigon
Syntel Value Birlasoft GlobalLogic
LAVA Zia Semiconductor Adverb Cipla
Tata Motors Compro Anglo-Eastern Freescale
TCS Shahpoorji Palonji Henkel NewGen

IISc Bangalore Summer Placement 2022

The institute offers internships for a duration of 3 Months to the students so as to not disturb the academics of the students. The internship generally starts in the month of March.

  • Students from Ph.D., M.Tech, M.Tech (Research), M.Des, M.Mgmt, and the Undergraduate program participated in this hiring season.
  • The Highest Stipend offered on Campus for the Batch 2020-22 was INR 1.15 Lakhs per month.
  • The average Stipend Offered on Campus for the Batch 2020-21 was INR 57,000 which came as no surprise to the institute.

IISc Bangalore Summer Placement 2020 Management

Since the Indian Institute of Science hasn’t yet released its summer placements report for the M.Mgmt Class of 2021. The highest stipend offered stood at INR 1.3 lakhs, while the average stipend offered stood at INR 68,000. This is a unique program that enables engineering students to learn Business Analytics along with engineering.

Particular Stats
Batch 2018-2020
Total Batch strength 15
No. of Participating Recruiters 12
No. of offers made 17
No. of offers accepted 14
Highest Package offered INR 1.30 Lacs per month
Average Package offered INR 68,000 per month
Median Package offered INR 50,000 per month

Aside from the above-mention stipend, over 42.87% of the offers comprised a stipend worth 1 Lakh and above. 50% of the total offers were worth more than INR. 70,000/-

IISc Bangalore Summer Placement 2020 Management Sector-wise

The following table represents the sector-wise summer placements-

Sector No. of Offers
IT/ITES 21.428%
Healthcare 21.428%
BFSI 21.428%
Others 21.428%
FMCG 14.285%

IISc Bangalore Summer Placement 2020 Management Role-wise

The following table represents the sector-wise summer placements-

Role No. of Offers
Analytics 28.571%
Strategy 14.285%
Operations 21.428%
Data Science 7.142%
ML & AI 28.571%

Top brands on campus such as AB-InBev, Flipkart, LinkedIn, Goldman Sachs, and Reliance Industries Limited extended offers to the batch of 2021. Top Recruiting firms for some of the fields in Management are: 

Field Top Recruiters
Consulting ZS Associates, Tiger Analytics
CPG/FMCG/E-Commerce Procter & Gamble, AB Inev, Flipkart, Udaan
BFSI/Fintech/Social-Media/ Goldman Sachs, Zest Money, Linkedin
Analytics/Petroleum/ITES/ Telecom Siemens, Reliance, Exxon, Dell, Xiaomi

IISc Bangalore Alumni Network

Name of the organizations Number of alumni
Indian Institute of Science 547
Microsoft 151
Intel Corporation 144
Amazon 121
Qualcomm 117

IISc Bangalore Placement FAQs

Ques. How many recruiters visited IISc Bangalore?

Ans. There were 90+ recruiters that visited IISc Bangalore.

Ques. What is the highest package of IISc Bangalore?

Ans. The highest package of IISc Bangalore is INR 40 LPA.

Ques. Which M.Mgmt field got maximum placement in IISc Bangalore?

Ans. M.Mgmt in Marketing received a maximum percentage of Placement.

Ques. Which sector recruited the highest number of students of IISc Bangalore?

Ans. IT/ITES sector recruited highest number of students of IISc Bangalore.

Ques. What is the average package for IISc Bangalore?

Ans. The IISc Bangalore average pacakge was INR 10 LPA.