Fat pay packages of multi-national companies are making more and students to pursue Information Technology (IT) branch of engineering.
Jaipur has around 17 private universities which have prominently given space this engineering branch. In 154 affiliated engineering colleges of Rajasthan Technical University, 12,500 seats are available for this branch against a total of 54,000 seats.
Thanks to the annual placements by Forbes 500 companies like Infosys and Wipro which have recruited up to 100 students from the city engineering colleges regularly at a time, re-affirming students' faith in this branch. Such trends have led to allotment of maximum number of seats for computer engineering by colleges and private universities.
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The setting up of IT units in special economic zones (SEZs) like Mahindra World and Japenese hub in Neemrana has also generated job oppurtunities in the IT sector locally.
Deepak Saxena, head of students' advisory board at RTU during a counseling session of engineering students said, "The most popular branch of engineering is computer science, electronics, followed by mechanical. The choices of students are directly related with placements or high salary package."
"The Forbes 500 IT companies are regularly visiting the campuses for placements showing the importance of candidates in this sector. I feel that if I have talent, nobody can stop me from fetching my dream job," Mayoor Sharma, an aspiring engineering student said.
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