Apart from providing various courses, SRM University offers excellent placement assistance for its students. The University has special department called Placement and training Cell for this process. The career oriented courses along with excellent guidance provided by the Placement cell help the students in securing a job after their course. It acts as a link between the corporate world and the students. Guidance is provided for the outgoing students on the career opportunities available.

Functions of Training and Placement Cell

Placement and training cell offers project placement, personality development training for the final year students from all courses. The placement cell is headed by a well experienced Placement and Training Officer who has good contacts with all the related industries. The placement cell assists the students in career guidance, placement and to liaison with different corporate houses.

The placement cell has tie ups with most of the reputed industry giants. It has signed memorandum of understanding with firms such as Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, Mahindra and Mahindra and Wipro for recruitment. The placement of students is conducted through campus recruitments, pooled campus and off campus recruitments. The major activities of the placement cell include the following.

Giving instructions to students on job opportunities

• Providing guidance to the students on national level entrance exams such as GATE, IES, and GRE etc
• Providing training for students in industries
• Assigning Project works for the final year students in industries
• Conducting Pre-joining Learning Initiatives
• Conducting industrial exhibitions, job fairs and seminars

Apart from these, the training and placement cell organize various programmes to promote useful interaction with the industries.

Major Recruiters of the Institution

The University has tie ups with more than three hundred global as well as Indian firms. It has conducted good number of placements so far. Some of the major recruiters who have selected students from the campus are.

• Accenture
• Hexaware
• Ashok Leyland
• Bank of America
• Essar Group
• American Express
• Amalgamation Group
• Bajaj
• Birla Soft
• Barclays
• Ciba
• Birla Group
• Caritor
• ICICI
• BASF
• Larsen & Toubro
• Caterpillar
• HDFC
• Coke
• Citigroup
• Cognizant
• Ford
• Glasgow
• HLL
• IBM
• HCL
• Honeywell
• Hyundai
• Hewlett Packard
• Infosys
• Microsoft
• InfoTech
• Lupin
• Mahindra & Mahindra
• Intel
• Mindtree
• Merrill Lynch

The University’s excellent job oriented course curriculum along with placement activities such as pre-placement talks, written tests, group discussions, and interviews as per the requirements of the organisations attracts numerous firms to the institution every year.