BLURB: This placement season, mechanical and civil students are back in demand in engineering colleges, with many institutions reporting renewed interest in hiring students from core branches.
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Several colleges have witnessed an increase in the number of companies hiring from core branches for students graduating in 2025-26. Several colleges have been able to place almost 100 percent of their students.
As per University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) placement officer Dileep Kumar, all the civil students of the university were got placements and they are hoping the same with the mechanical stream by the end of the season.
“The number of companies coming in is better than in the past five years,” he said.
The reason for the high percentage of placement could also be because of the lower number of students when compared to other streams. Many colleges have shut down the core branches; in some others, the intake has been reduced to a small cohort of students. With this, in the campuses that have students in these branches, the demand is high for them, noted KN Subramanya, Principal of RV College of Engineering.
Ramaiah Institute of Technology Dean (Training and Placements) K Sreenivasa Ramanujam said that there is at least a 20% increase in the number of companies coming for mechanical and civil students, including companies working with drones and electric vehicles.
“We were able to attract around 60 companies. There are more discussions happening with companies working with drones and EV-related vehicles. Yet another related branch called industrial engineering and management IEM is also doing well this time. While 51-53 of the 60 students have been placed so far, the others are also likely to find placement in the next two months,” he said.
According to the PES University, the pattern is how internships are getting converted to job offers. Either students have been placed or have internships. The trend this time was to get internship offers and that getting converted, said KS Sridhar, placement head.
As per the Cambridge Institute of Technology all mechanical students were placed while civil engineering is also nearing 100% placement. While it was picking up last year too, this year has been really good.” In terms of admissions to the first year, there’s a demand for management seats in civil, mechanical and electrical programmes this year,” said Principal BV Ravi Shankar. The package for these branches is not as good as computer science streams initially. But over years, it rises and becomes on par with others, he added.