IIST Trivandrum Placements: Average & Highest Package 2025

The institute has a newly opened placement cell. It provides training for students to suit the various global standard placements norms and try to bring more private as well as public sector companies.Read Full Review

IIST has a primarily student-run centre for Career Guidance & Placements (CCGP), working towards attracting the top companies in the space sector, such as Skyroot Aerospace, Dhruva Space, Agnikul Cosmos, and beyond (Accenture, Texas Instruments) to recruit talented IISTians. Till B.Tech./Dual Degree batch of 2020-24, IIST used to have a bond that students would sign at the time of admission. The bond mandated students, securing a CGPA > 7.5/10 after program completion, to work at an ISRO/DoS Centre or Unit for a minimum period of 3 years, failing which a fine of ₹10,00,000/- would have to paid. Now, that bond has been removed, and recruitment to ISRO would be through an interview subject to securing CGPA > 7.5. Joining ISRO is not mandatory.Read Full Review

The Placement Cell has just been started last year. The 90% of alumni network is from ISRO. Students at the Institute still have ISRO as their first option since we have a direct recruitment policy to ISRO through an Interview. Students above 7 CGPA can sit for the interview and if they get it cleared, they could join ISRO. In my batch, there were around 64 students and around 32 students sat for the interview and everyone cleared it. There are a lot of space startups that visit the Institute and hire students on a pay scale of around 10 LPA. Some of the startups that visited are Agnikul Cosmos, Stardour, Skyroot, etc.Read Full Review