Last year, 39 companies had visited DTU during the same time period and made 254 offers. In fact, the institute expects that the number of recruiters visiting DTU during 2010-11 will increase by 30 per cent.

The largest number of recruiters, in last few years, are from IT and software sector, followed by automobile and allied engineering, civil and construction, and polymers and chemicals. The emerging sectors where hiring is taking place are knowledge process outsourcing and business analysis, with companies like Deloitte , Goldman Sachs and McKinsey and Company hiring students.

Further, the highest pay package offered so far for this year is Rs 10.49 lakh per annum from Microsoft, which has made four job offers.

“Students nowadays give equal consideration to work profile and career prospects alongwith pay package and reputation of a company, which wasn’t the case few years ago. Some of the students have even opted for lesser pay packages in the companies where the work profile was more of their liking or offered better career growth,” said Prof. S. K. Garg, Head, Training and Placements.

The placements for the first-batch of the MBA programme of Delhi School of Management, the on-campus B-School of DTU started last year, have also begun with Michelin making job offers of Rs 5 lakh per annum to five MBA students.