The Indian Institute of Technology Madras established the Biotechnology department in 2004. According to 2021 data of the institute, the Biotechnology department has 4 major domains: Biological Sciences, Biomolecular Sciences, Computational Biology, and Biological Engineering.
The institute has a regular faculty of 33 members. The department hosts nearly 330 UG students in dual degree programmes, 60 masters level students (MTech/MS), 200 doctoral scholars (PhD), 30 postdoctoral scholars and project staff and 13 technical and administrative staff.
This IIT-Madras’s department also offers two integrated dual degree programmes, Master of Science (MS) by research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes with an MTech Clinical Engineering which is also a multi institutional programme and MTech program Bioprocess Engineering.
Data analysis — IIT Madras Biotechnology
The placement trends in Biotechnology have seen many ups and downs in the last few years. The average salary of IIT Madras Biotechnology department has gone up from Rs 11.6 lakh per annum in 2017-18 to Rs 16.96 lakh per annum in 2021-2022, but in 2018-19 it went down to Rs 11.58 lakh per annum. The Covid years registered a steady increase with Rs 12.73 lakh per annum in 2019-20 and Rs 14.26 lakh per annum in 2020-21.
When it comes to the total number of offers, the number decreased from 44 in 2017-18 to 31 in 2018-19, and then increased to 46 in 2019-20, only to see a downfall to 38 in 2020-21. This 2020-21 decrease might be the result of the emergence of the Covid pandemic. Though in 2021-22 the total number of offers was increased to 67.
The number of placed students decreased from 34 in 2017-18 to 26 in 2018-19. The data shows an asymmetrical behaviour as it increases to 38 in 2019-20 and then again decreases to 37 in 2020-21. The number of placed students, however, jumped drastically to 54 in 2021-22.
Overall placements
According to the data provided by the institute, the placement percentage was 56 in 2021-22. The Biotechnology department has the minimum package of Rs 10 lakh per annum and the maximum package in 2021-22 was Rs 35.22 lakh per annum.
The top recruiters of the 2022-23 placement season were Texas Instruments, Bajaj Auto, Qualcomm, JP Morgan Chase, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, Graviton, Mckinsey and Company and Cohesity.
Courtesy : The Indian Express