Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 6: Lovely Professional University (LPU) has broken all its previous records with respect to placements during this session. This year, LPU has set record in North India with largest number of 610 engineering students getting recruited.
Cognizant Technologies–leading IT Company visited the campus twice in a row within a span of nine months. In addition, international placements by Ritz Carlton Hotel USA, Qatar Airways Doha and Al Rakha Group Dubai at allowance up to Rs 22 lakh also made LPU to clog up one of the highest placement packages’ record in the region. Other top salary offering companies remained Practo Technologies (Rs 7 lakh), Josh Technologies (Rs 6 lakh), LG Soft (Rs 5.5 lakh) and more.
In term of placement drives, about 200 placement drives were made by top brands including 100 plus drives for technology and sciences’ students and 60 for business administration students. Under these drives, 2000 plus LPU students have got placements in all sectors including Management, IT, Engineering, Banking, Agriculture, Consultancy, Architecture, Pharmaceuticals and more.
Various campus placement drives made by different globally giant companies include Cognizant, Amdocs, HCL Technologies, Vodafone, LG Soft, Ericsson, Asian Paints, Verizon Data Service, Tavant Technologies, I Gate, Infosys, IBM, ERA Infra Engineering, Madura Fashion and Lifestyle, Redington India, Rockman Industries, Sandhar Technologies, Simplex Infrastructures, Zenesis Agro and more. Though companies from multiple sectors have recruited LPU students but the top sector to recruit largest number of LPU students again remained CSE/ IT. By recruiting 610 students in a single drive, IT giant Cognizant remained the top recruiter across all the sectors and clusters.
LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said that the successful ongoing recruitment cycle for the batch graduating in the end of May 2015 is a strong testament to the high quality of LPU students. He added that the robust nature of LPU placement processes provides adequate flexibility to both students and recruiters.
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