IIT Hyderabad Student Bags Record ₹2.5 Crore Job Offer in Campus Placements
Hyderabad | January 2, 2026 | DeccanLive.com
An IIT Hyderabad student has hit the jackpot by securing a job offer with a massive annual package of ₹2.5 crore. The offer was made during the recent campus placement drive.
The student, Edward Nathan Varghese (21), is a final-year BTech Computer Science Engineering student at IIT Hyderabad. He received the offer from a global trading company based in the Netherlands. Edward will join the company as a Software Engineer after completing his engineering degree in July this year.
This is the highest salary package ever offered to a student from IIT Hyderabad since the institute was established in 2005. The company selected Edward after he completed a two-month summer internship with them. Later, he received a pre-placement offer with the record package. Although two IIT Hyderabad students were selected for the internship, Edward was the only one to receive a full-time job offer.
Edward was born and raised in Hyderabad and studied in Bengaluru from Class 7 to Class 12. In 2022, he secured an All India Rank of 1100 in JEE Main and 558 in JEE Advanced.
IIT Hyderabad is known for its strong campus placement record. In 2017, a student received a job offer close to ₹1 crore, and in recent years, offers ranging from ₹60 lakh to ₹90 lakh have become common. However, this is the first time a package as high as ₹2.5 crore has been offered.
The institute also announced that another Computer Science student received a job offer worth ₹1.1 crore during the same placement season. Compared to last year, the average salary package has increased by nearly 75 percent. It rose from ₹20.8 lakh in 2024 to ₹36.2 lakh this year.
In the first phase of placements, which ended in December, students received 24 international job offers. The second phase of placements, especially for postgraduate students, is still ongoing. So far, 196 postgraduate students out of 650 have received job offers, with an average package of ₹22 lakh. Among undergraduate students, around 62 percent of the 487 students have been placed.
