Fergusson College Placement Details

Noti Dinesh Kumar Reddy

Updated on - Dec 4, 2023

Fergusson College is the leading institution in Pune under Savitribai Phule University that has excellent placement record of 80 to 90 percentage. Placements at the Fergusson College are very good for the science field, particularly for CS/IT, Microbiology, Physical Science, Biotechnology, EVS, Data Science, and others. To make the academic curricular and placements ratio more strong FC Pune provides internships, workshops, career development programs, and activities for the students. Students are placed in different positions such as lab technician, junior researcher, software engineer, sales executive, etc. The Career Faciliation Centre of the college provides industrial interferance and placement assistance to the students of different programs. Wipro, TCS, Amazon, Google, Cipla, Dr Reddy's, Sun Pharma, etc are some of the prominent recruiters at the Fergusson College Pune placements.

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Table of Contents

• Placement Highlights
• Placement Cell
• Placement Offers
• Internship
• Top Recruiters
• Placement Statistics
• Alumni Placement Details
• FAQs

Fergusson College Placements Highlights

Fergusson College offered placements to 90% of its students. The highest package was INR 11 lakh per annum and the minimum was INR 5 LPA for the 2021 placement season. Following are the highlights of the Fergusson College placements 2022.

Fergusson College Placement Cell

The training and placements cell at Fergusson College is known as the "Career Facilitation Center". CFC is a placement cell that was built in the early 90s basically meant for providing industrial interface and assistance in placements for computer science programs. The number of interactions with industries has increased fourfold with a focus on skill development of students, research and development, industrial training, internships, and campus to corporate programs. Gradually it evolved as a strong support system in terms of training and placements of students, all these facilities come under the umbrella of "Career Facilitation Center". The function of the CFC includes:

• To motivate, support and mentor students for identification, development and commercialization of their innovative ideas.
• To initiate targeted number of innovative student projects each year for new product development.
• To organize Business Plan Competitions / Innovation Camps / Hackathons with active involvement of industry and alumni.
• To guide and assist prospective entrepreneurs on various aspects such as preparing project reports, obtaining project approvals, loans and facilities from agencies of support system, information on technologies, etc.
• To arrange interaction with entrepreneurs, bankers, professionals, potential customers and create a mentorship scheme for student innovators.
• To facilitate creation of Entrepreneur's Club / E-Cells in the college to foster culture of entrepreneurship amongst students.

Placement Offers at Fergusson College

More than 100 companies visit each year for campus placement at Fergusson College. The college offers placements in three to four tires according to the domain of companies. 

• Core
• IT [Information Technology]
• Pharmaceutical 
• Industrial 
• Biopharmaceuticals

Fergusson College Internships

The internship and workshops are conducted by the CFC or the Fergusson placement and training cell. These internships are for a duration of 3 to 6 months for the students who are in their final year in UG/PG courses. The companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, L&T, etc offer internships campus drive. However, if the students perform well during the internship period, they are generally offered full-time opportunities or PPOs by the hiring companies. About 50% of students got internships in BIOERA, IISER Pune and Municipal corporation climate division in 2021. 

Fergusson College University Top Recruiters

The list of top recruiters that visit Fergusson College for campus recruitment is mentioned below:

Fergusson College Placement Statistics

The FC conducts campus placement for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The FC offers various courses in different disciplines and conducts placement drives for each of the courses. There are average placements for each course, and students also get placed with an average package.

Fergusson College Alumni Placement Details

The Fergusson College is autonomous and known for its excellence in the field of higher education since its establishment. There have been very constructive transformations in the quality of academic programs offered by the College, and the College is marching ahead with support from all the stakeholders. There also have been consistent resource mobilization from different Government agencies. A variety of skill-oriented programs have been implemented in the College.

The Alumni network of the college is really very good and generous, they have notable alumni like Mr. P.V Narasimha, actress Pooja Batra, Sonali Kulkarni great Freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar and many more, who make the college more precious.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How are the placements at FC?

 Ans. The placements is average for department like Computer Science have good placements records.

•  What are the average Package and highest packages offered on which students are placed? 

Ans. The record of the highest package offered is geneally between INR 3 to 5 LPA, and average packages goes up to INR of 3.5 LPA.

• How is the placement cell at FC? 

Ans. The placement cell is known as the "Career Facilitation Center", which provide vast opportunity for the student to get placed, by providing them internship programs, workshops, seminars, training for placements.