Chandigarh University Placements 2024: Highest & Average Salary Package, Top Companies

Ajay Morab

Updated on - Jul 16, 2024

Chandigarh University placement drive has the reputation of placing most of the students in reputed companies. CU witnessed as many as 9124 students getting placed during 2024 placements. The Chandigarh University highest package offered during 2024 placements is INR 1.7 CPA (International) and INR 54.75 LPA (National). Department of Career Planning and Development (DCPD), the Chandigarh University placement cell, is entirely committed to providing the best placement opportunities for students.

Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, SAP Labs, Google, VMWare, HP, Deloitte, Cognizant, Sapient, Hitachi, Practo Technologies, Flipkart, Gwynniebee India, and Zomato are some of Chandigarh University top recruiters. Along with final placements, Chandigarh University also conducts internship drives for its students.

Table of Contents

• Placement Highlights
• Top Recruiters
• Placement Statistics
• Placement Cell
• Placement Process
• Internship

Chandigarh University Placement Highlights 2024

Chandigarh University has successfully emerged as a placement hub, attracting top-notch multinational companies. During the placement season 2024, around 904 companies have participated and made 9000+ placement offers. The Chandigarh University average package is yet to be released by the university. However, some of the prominent CU placement highlights for 2024 are listed below.

Chandigarh University Top Recruiters

Companies from various domains and countries participate in the CUCHD placement drive every year. Some of the top recruiters of Chandigarh University placement drives are given in the table below.

Chandigarh University Placement Statistics

At Chandigarh University, campus placements have improved significantly over the years. The salary packages for management and hospitality departments have increased to INR 28 LPA and INR 18 LPA, respectively. Some of the placement statistics, like the highest package Chandigarh University salary trend, year-wise number of students placed, number of recruiters, department-wise placements, etc., are given below.

Chandigarh University Salary Trend

The Chandigarh University highest package has constantly been constantly rising over the last few years. During 2024 placements, the university has successfully maintained the highest package it achieved in 2022, INR 1.7 Crores per Annum. Chandigarh University salary trend (highest package) over the last 11 years (2014- 2024) during final placements is given in the table below.

The graph below shows the Chandigarh University salary trend of the highest package from 2014 to 2024.

Chandigarh University Year-wise Students Placed

The number of students placed during final placements has been increasing every year. More than 9124 students have been placed during 2024 placements, and the university witnessed more than 9500 students being placed in 2022 placements. The year-wise number of students placed during Chandigarh University placements from 2014 to 2024 is given in the table below.

The following graph shows the number of students placed during CUCHD placements for the last 11 years (2014 to 2024).

Chandigarh University Year-wise Companies Visited

The number of companies participating in CUCHD placements has reached 900 in 2022. Around 904 companies participated in the placement drive of 2024. The year-wise number of companies participating in the Chandigarh University placement drive from 2014 to 2024 is given in the table below.

Given below is the graph explaining the year-wise number of companies participating in Chandigarh University placements from 2014 to 2024.

Chandigarh University Department-Wise Placement Statistics

CUCHD placements for 2024 included big names like Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Hewlett Packard, SAP Labs, Samsung, and L&T for the engineering stream. Chandigarh University MCA placements and other computer and IT branches have lured top placement offers. The university has recorded more than 30 companies offering placement offers of 20 LPA and above to students from different streams in 2024. The department-wise Chandigarh University placement statistics are given below.

Chandigarh University Engineering Placements (2024)

Chandigarh University CSE placements bagged the highest package offered in 2024, INR 1.7 Cr. IT giants like Microsoft, IBM, SAP Labs, and Hewlett Packard visited CU in 2024.

• The number of companies offering a salary package of INR 20 LPA or more is 30
• The number of companies offering a salary package of INR 15 LPA or more is 52.
• Companies offering a salary package of INR 10 LPA or more made 100+ selections.

The below table displays the data on students' placement from various engineering branches.

Chandigarh University MBA Placements (2024)

Multinational companies like Amazon, Flipkart, IBM, Deloitte, E&Y, Danone Foods, KPMG, Bank of America, etc., have recruited management students from Chandigarh University.

• 200 MNCs selected one thousand seventy-eight management students.
• Specialisation-wise highest package (INR): Business Analytics 28 LPA, Banking & Finance 14 LPA, HR & International Business 6 LPA, Marketing 7 LPA.
• The number of MNCs offering a salary package of INR 5 LPA or more touched 118.

The table below shows the data for Chandigarh University MBA placements in 2024.

Chandigarh University Hotel Management and Airline-Tourism Placements

Various prominent five-star hotel chains, top airlines & travel management companies like The Oberoi Group, The Grand, JW Marriott, Radisson, ITC Group of Hotels, Hotel Taj, Indigo, Vistara, Spice Jet, and Cox & King, etc., hired Hotel Management students during Chandigarh University placement. 

Walt Disney recruited Chandigarh University students for the fifth consecutive time. Some of the CUCHD placement highlights of Hotel Management and Airline-Tourism are given below.

Chandigarh University Physics Placements

More than 40 companies, including reputed companies like Wipro, Zomato, Adani Solar, Zifo RnD Solutions, etc., have participated in the Chandigarh University placement drive for the Physics program. An M.Sc in Physics student secured a scholarship of INR 56.00 LPA to study abroad at the University of California.

Some of the key highlights of CU Chandigarh placements in the Physics department are given below.

Chandigarh University Pharma Sciences Placements (2024)

Roots Analysis, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd, IDS Infotech Ltd, Amazon India, Health Biotech, GSK Smith Kline, etc. are some of the top recruiters of Pharma Science students in 2024. Around 159 students from Pharma Sciences were placed during this drive. The following table shows some of the key highlights of CU placements in the Pharma Sciences department in 2024.

Chandigarh University Job Roles Offered

The highest number of companies, 200+, offered the Software Engineer/ SDE job role during the Chandigarh University placements. The job role-wise number of companies during 2022 placements are given below.

The pie chart below shows the profile-wise number of companies during the CUCHD placement drive of 2022.

Chandigarh University Salary Package-wise Companies

Top FinTech companies hired from CU with starting salaries over INR 50.00 LPA in 2022-23. The salary package-wise number of companies for batch 2023 (as of 28th September 2022) is listed in the table below.

Chandigarh University Other Recruiters

More than 900 companies have participated in the Chandigarh University placement drive of 2024. Some of the leading recruiters of Chandigarh University are given below.

Chandigarh University Placement Cell

Chandigarh University has a placement cell, popularly known as the Department of Career Planning and Development, whose main aim is to train students and place them in reputed companies. The placement unit of Chandigarh University helps students from their first semester onward to strengthen their general and technical skills. The Chandigarh University placement cell organizes numerous training sessions to hone students' IT, aptitude, and soft skills in addition to placement training sessions. 

Along with placement training, the Chandigarh University placement cell offers training for students preparing for competitive tests, admission exams for higher education, government exams, bank exams, and civil service exams. Some of the important activities of the Department of Career Planning and Development are given below.

• Projects and Workshops
• Placement training
• Internship and placement drives
• Industrial visits
• Seminars
• Guest lectures

Chandigarh University Placement Process

The Department of Career Planning and Development organizes placement drives for students of all programs. The step-by-step process of conducting the annual CUCHD placement drive is described below.

• First, the Chandigarh University placement cell sends invitations and all relevant details of the placement drive to enterprises and organizations.
• Employers must complete the job application if they want to recruit students.
• Pre-placement discussions and selection processes are conducted for interested and registered students on announced dates.
• The recruiting organization will make job offers for students who have cleared the selection round.

Chandigarh University Internship

Along with final-year campus placements, Chandigarh University also organizes internship drives. The internships that Chandigarh University offers are often paid positions. The internship duration can be anywhere between one month and six months. The CUCHD highest stipend offered during the latest internship drive is INR 1 Lakh per month. Similarly, the average stipend was recorded as INR 38,427 per month.

Chandigarh University Volunteer Internships

The Office of International Relations Internship Program offers volunteer opportunities for its students. Volunteer interns are recruited year-round on a semester basis, and all volunteer internships are filled on a rolling basis. An intern's volunteer duties generally include program coordination, social media, alumni network, follow-ups, documentation, research, editing, and writing. The volunteer internships are unpaid.

Chandigarh University Internship Statistics

In the last 10 years, around 13 companies offered a stipend of INR 1 Lakh and above. Around 250 companies have offered a stipend of INR 20,000 and above. Statistics of the number of companies across various stipend slabs from 2014 to 2023 are shown in the table below.

The graph below shows the number of companies based on stipend slab during Chandigarh University summer internship for the last 10 years (2014 to 2023).