• Core Engineering industries
• Software / IT Industries
• Manufacturing Industries
• Consultancy Firms
• Management Organisations
• R & D laboratories etc

The Placement Office is assisted by a committee comprising representatives of students from the under-graduate and post-graduate engineering streams and the science streams. The committee evolves a broad policy framework every year. Students members are closely co-opted in implementing these policy decisions.

The graduates of IIT Madras are preferred choice among CEOs and HR Managers. Every year 100s of recruiters visits IIT Madras for campus recruitment. The dedicated placement cell provides pre placement training to the students so they must be prepared before facing actual interviews. Normally, all students get placed before the finish of last semester and many picked by prospective employers in first or second semester itself. The placement news from IIT Madras makes headlines in different media networks.