hyderabad days after the engineering disciplines of the jawaharlal nehru technological university jntu toted up more than 75 per cent placement of its graduating class this year osmania universitys three professional colleges have averaged about 50 per cent so farabout 50 per cent of the ou college of engineering students have got jobs so far with about three more months of the recruitment season to run about 60 per cent of the universityfs management students have been picked up the placement scene at the ou college engineering this year has shown vast improvement over last yearalready 255 of the 500 students have been placed last year the number was just 180 the pay packets are also fatter this year the highest salary offered last year was 58 lakh per annum this year one student was offered rs 6 lakhthe universitys science graduates got the raw end of the stick in the placement programme in fact msc mathematics students 400 students of this course do not even figure in the placement process as also msc statistics 160 students on the other hand almost the entire msc computer science batch of 80 students have been picked up by software firms also in demand are life sciences and earth sciences studentsout of the hundreds of students in the universitys 24 science disciplines just about 40 are picked up in campus recruitment every year the others manage to get jobs as junior college lecturers on their own said science college principal prof v sivaram prasad better off are management studentsplacement at the college of commerce and business management stands at 60 per cent each year a major drawback for these students is the delay in the completion of their academic year a majority of private colleges and other universities finish their academic year by aprilmay by the time companies come to recruit their results are available however in case of ou college of business management the academic programme does not end until august other colleges and bschools have an edge over us because they finish their academic year on schedule whereas ours drags onh said dr k narendranath of the placement office of the college