National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

What is the placement record at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur?

In the latest completed cycle (placements 2025, for the 2024-2025 academic year), National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur recorded a 94.57% placement rate, an average package of ₹13.62 LPA and a highest package of ₹1.44 Cr (₹144 LPA). Roughly 260 companies visited the NIT Jamshedpur campus and rolled out close to 700 offers across B.Tech, M.Tech and other programmes. The institute's three-year record is consistently strong: NIT Jamshedpur placed 93.76% of eligible students in 2024 and 98.87% in 2023, with the placement 2026 season currently in progress and full figures not yet officially released. The headline of 2025 was final-year Computer Science student Mohit Kumar Agrawal, who secured an offer worth around ₹1.23 crore from Rubrik, the highest single offer in the institute's history.

Year-Wise Placement Statistics

The table below tracks the four headline metrics aspirants search for at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur: highest package, average package, median package and the overall percentage of students placed. It covers the three most recent completed cycles (2025, 2024 and 2023); the 2026 drive is still under way, so its final numbers are not included. Read it top-down to see how the institute's pay and placement breadth have moved year on year, and note that all figures are annual CTC.

The clear takeaway is that NIT Jamshedpur's top-end pay jumped sharply in 2025, with the highest package leaping from ₹82-83 LPA in 2023-2024 to ₹1.44 Cr, driven by a marquee software offer. The average package dipped from ₹15.98 LPA in 2023 to ₹12.63 LPA in 2024 before recovering to ₹13.62 LPA in 2025, and the median rose from ₹10.08 LPA (2024) to ₹11.24 LPA (2025), a sign that pay improved across the broad middle of the batch, not just at the top. For an applicant, the consistent 93-99% placement band across all three years is the most reassuring signal of breadth.

Top Recruiters at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

NIT Jamshedpur draws a mix of global technology firms, banking and financial-services majors, core engineering and manufacturing giants, and consulting and analytics employers. Across the 2024 and 2025 cycles, the institute reported participation from around 260 companies each year, including a healthy share of first-time recruiters. The verifiable recruiter names below are grouped by sector.

Technology and Software

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Adobe, Oracle, AMD, Samsung, Cisco, Flipkart and Rubrik (which made the institute's record ₹1.23 crore offer in 2025).

Banking, Financial Services and Consulting

BNY Mellon, Citibank, HSBC, Accenture and EY.

Core Engineering, Manufacturing and Conglomerates

Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance, Hero, HP and Unilever, alongside IT services majors such as Infosys.

What the recruiter mix means

The presence of Tata Steel and Tata Motors reflects NIT Jamshedpur's deep roots in India's steel city and its traditional strength in core branches like Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical. At the same time, the arrival of Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and Rubrik at the top of the offer ladder shows that software roles now set the institute's ceiling on pay.

Sector & Role-Wise Breakdown

Official NIT Jamshedpur reports publish placement strength branch by branch rather than as a single sector-share table, so the figures below are organised by academic branch (a close proxy for the sector each cohort enters). The table uses the 2024 cycle, where branch-level percentages and packages are most fully documented, and pairs each branch with its placement rate and a representative package. Read it to judge which programmes convert best and command the highest pay.

The standout patterns are that CSE commands the highest pay at NIT Jamshedpur (a ₹20.24 LPA average and the ₹82 LPA top offer in 2024, rising to a roughly ₹25.11 LPA CSE average in 2025), while the legacy core branch MME delivered a 100% placement rate in 2024, underlining the institute's manufacturing pedigree. Civil and Production engineering also crossed 94-95%, so an applicant should read NIT Jamshedpur as offering broad, near-universal placement coverage with software branches concentrating the eye-catching salaries.

Placement Trend Analysis

Across 2023 to 2025, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur shows two distinct trajectories. On placement breadth, the institute peaked at 98.87% in 2023, eased to 93.76% in 2024, then recovered to 94.57% in 2025, a tight band that signals durable, recession-resistant demand for NIT Jamshedpur graduates even when the broader tech hiring market cooled in 2024. On compensation, the average package fell from ₹15.98 LPA (2023) to ₹12.63 LPA (2024) in line with that slowdown, before climbing back to ₹13.62 LPA in 2025; the rising median (₹10.08 LPA to ₹11.24 LPA) confirms the 2025 recovery reached the typical student, not just toppers.

The most dramatic shift is at the ceiling. NIT Jamshedpur's highest package held around ₹82-83 LPA in 2023 and 2024, then more than doubled to ₹1.44 Cr in 2025 when Mohit Kumar Agrawal landed a roughly ₹1.23 crore Rubrik offer, the largest in institute history, after a Google internship. This tells an applicant two things: the floor and median at NIT Jamshedpur are steady and improving, and the top end is now genuinely competitive with elite institutions for strong software candidates. With around 260 recruiters and 700-plus offers sustained year after year, the trend points to a stable, broad-based placement engine with an increasingly high software ceiling.