About 50 per cent of the OU College of Engineering students have got jobs so far with about three more months of the recruitment season to run. About 60 per cent of the universityfs management students have been picked up. The placement scene at the OU College Engineering this year has shown vast improvement over last year.
Already, 255 of the 500 students have been placed. Last year, the number was just 180. The pay packets are also fatter this year. The highest salary offered last year was 5.8 lakh per annum. This year one student was offered Rs 6 lakh.
The university's Science graduates got the raw end of the stick in the placement programme. In fact, M.Sc. Mathematics students 400 students of this course do not even figure in the placement process, as also M.Sc. Statistics (160) students. On the other hand, almost the entire M.Sc. Computer Science batch of 80 students have been picked up by software firms. Also in demand are life sciences and earth sciences students.
Source: The Times of India
