Yes, there are many products based as well as service-based companies who visit SRM Easwari Engineering College every year for placement drive. Amazon and Google being the major service-based companies that provide dream packages have been the regular participants in the placement procedure. The mass recruitment happened for the IT branch students although there are not many core companies visiting for the other branches.

Placement Statistics:

• The average package offered to the student stood at INR 4.14 Lakhs per annum. For the year 2020, the very best package has already reached 19 LPA offered by Amazon.

• 124 companies provided 741 job offers with a mean package of 3-4 LPA.

• 78 Companies provided 251 job offers with a mean package of 4-9 LPA.

• 18 companies offered 28 job offers with a mean package of 9 LPA.

• The major companies visiting the campus for recruitment are Samsung, Cummins, HCL, TCS, Snapdeal, Capgemini, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, Procto, and lots more.

Many internships are offered to IT sectors like the computer science engineering department as well as the information technology department. Stipends up to 15000 have been offered in the last session to students, with a PPO offered at the end of the internships. In short, it can easily be said that if you are in the computer science or IT department, and have all the skills related to the corporate industry, the institute can provide you with good exposure and placement opportunities.

Many of the tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, etc visit the campus every year in search of performing candidates. So if you have good academic records, then you can for sure expect a high package from any of these product-based companies.

SRM Easwari Engineering College is a reputed college of engineering in Chennai. The college ranked at the 200th position all over the country in the engineering colleges category according to NIRF in 2019.

Eligibility: It offers a BTech program in Information Technology.

• Students must score a minimum of 50% in 10+2 and have physics or mathematics as their core subjects compulsorily.

• Final admissions are based on the score obtained in the TNEA entrance test.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for IT was 6132.

Fee structure:

The institute charges a fee of INR 55,000 for the first year of the course.

Faculty:

The faculty, particularly of the IT department is known to be well experienced and educated. Most professors have a Ph.D. degree while others have a qualified master’s degree.

Placements:

Placements of the institute are slightly more inclined in the favor of students pursuing IT degrees. Students are trained from the first year in order to get placed and get jobs after the degree.

• More than 309 different companies visit the campus every year.

• The highest pay package offered at the institute is INR 28 lakhs per annum.

• Some of the popular organizations recruiting students include IBM, Google, Mahindra, Accenture, Indian Navy, and various others.

With a good record of placements, a reasonable fee structure, and helpful faculty, students can expect quality education for IT from the institute.

Easwari Engineering College and SRM University are both well-known colleges of engineering in Chennai. Of the two, SRM University has more number of campuses spread across the country, hence one might expect a cosmopolitan crowd at the institute. SRM is a deemed university whereas Easwari Engineering College is affiliated to Anna University in Tamil Nadu.

Courses Offered:

SRM University- Some of the popular courses offered at SRM University (Ramapuram) include B. Tech, BSc, BCA, B. Com, MTech, MBA, etc. Admission for the various programs is through SRMJEE, GATE, SRMJEEM, CAT, etc.

Easwari Engineering College- It mainly offers courses based on engineering. Therefore, programs like B. Tech, B.E, M.E are more popular here. It also offers an MBA program and lateral programs in B.E and B. Tech. Admission to the engineering programs is through TENA and TANCET.

Placements:

SRM University (Ramapuram):

• About 8400 different students have been placed by the institute in 2019 alone.

• The college has about 625 different organizations visiting the institute every year.

• The highest pay package offered caps at INR 39 lakhs per annum with the average package clocking in at INR 4.8 lakhs per annum.

• Some of the companies visiting the institute include Hyundai, Honda, Michelin, Wipro, Cisco, HSBC, Google, and several others.

Easwari Engineering College:

• More than 300 companies visit the college annually and about 500+ students have been placed.

• The highest package offered at the institute is of INR 28 lakhs per annum.

• Accenture, Amazon, Infosys, TCS, Google, Honeywell are a few of the several companies visiting the college.

Both colleges have near equal merit when it comes to placements. However, SRM University has a wider variety of courses. So, choose according to your preferences.

For lateral entry students, Easwari Engineering College provides a number of facilities and courses for their overall curriculum development and placement training. 

The points listed below give a brief overview of the same.

• The lateral entry students generally face some difficulties in coping up with the syllabus. Easwari Engineering College provides a number of courses for overcoming these difficulties and placing the students on track with the syllabus.
• The Bridge Course provided by the college is considered to be most important for the lateral entry students. In this course, special classes are taken to cover the topics and chapters from the first year which the students have missed.
• Programs are organized for placement related training before the hiring session starts.
• The college is rich in both curricular and extracurricular activities. The teaching staff support the lateral students in every curriculum and teaching-related queries.
• You will generally find the practical lab-sessions easy to grasp, and having the knowledge from professors, it becomes a smooth workflow.
• Industry-related elective subjects are provided in the curriculum, which aids in placement and practical knowledge.
• Courses that are of the recent trend in the industry are taught as a part of the syllabus. Lateral entry students who have subjects like CNC, Designing, 3d printing, etc gain a lot of experience in them.
• A good number of companies in core branches, IT, Civil, etc visit the campus for placement and provide decent CTCs to students from every branch.

So, for lateral entry students, Easwari Engineering College has all the facilities listed above and students get a lot of opportunities for a career in the industry and further studies. One of my friends is a lateral entry student and had a good academic experience at the institute.