169 AMU engineering students hired by 39 MNCs with packages going up to Rs 15.59 lakh per annum

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)’s Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET) has had a shot-in-the-arm with companies such as Adobe, Open Silicon, Siemens, LNT, Voltas, O-General, TCS, Wipro, and 39 others hiring 167 students who graduated this academic year.

According to a statement from AMU, the highest package offered to a student is of Rs. 15.5 lakh, while the average package of pass outs is Rs. 5.57 lakh per annum.

Prof Mahdi has further informed that so far in the 2018-19 session, 19 students have already been placed in top multinational-corporations with a maximum package of Rs. 8.7 lakh.

ZHCET has been able to rake in impressive placement figures for all major B Tech programmes because of the excellent and innovative teaching pedagogy and the Training and Placement Office, which acts as an intermediately between Industry and the university.

AMU was ranked 35 in engineering category of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

The Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET) was established in 1935, as a constituent college of the Aligarh Muslim University. The College has a land area of 113 acres and a built-up area of 22960 sq.m. The College's excellence was identified out of the 400 institutions across the country and was put in the list of seven selected Institutions to be upgraded to the level of IIT. It has been ranked 21st by the India Today among "India's Best Engineering College 2015".  The college has also been ranked 35th in the "Top Engineering Colleges 2015" by Outlook India.