former students have reached the level of director in several companies and have helped bring the best brands to cummins secondly our teaching learning process has improved which lays emphasis on practicaloriented learning this helps students get placed easily as companies are also looking for students with practical knowledge she addedthe army institute of technology enjoyed another year of good placements with 83 of its students already recruited compared to around 73 last year two of our students were picked by microsoft after their internship programme the average package has gone up from rs 58 lakh per annum last year to rs 63 lakh this year i see two major changes in the recruitment process companies are increasingly engaging in evidencebased hiring and it product companies are hiring more students with knowledge of artificial intelligence machine learning etc said manoj khaladkar the training and placements officer of aitsatish narkhede the training and placement officer at pune institute of computer technology said we have placed 450 out of 600 students of them 325 students were offered an average annual salary of rs 75 lakh most companies were productbased servicebased startups and from the banking sector overall the average salary is rs 66 lakh per annum last year it was rs 6 lakh per annum rakuten a japanese company has offered the biggest package of rs 35 lakh to one student we were offered rs 65 lakh by a company but it had arrived late and by then many students had already got placed narkhede said