New Delhi: Delhi College of Engineering is seeing rising number of campus recruiters visiting its campus nowadays as to pick up students for their companies.

Talking about this year, 85 firms visited for campus recruitment; the number was 59 in 2007. And the salary being offered to 3 students by an international oil services is believed to be the highest package of worth Rs. 45 lakh.

Going by the words of one of the student who bagged the highest pay package, "The package was completely unexpected. More firms, including the international ones, have placed all the students in the 2008 batch. Even the average pay package has increased by 45% this year. It is mainly because of the student placement co-coordinator which attracted more firms this time".

Compare to last year this year pay package has climbed the ladder upto Rs. 5.5 lakh. As proven by the member of the placement cell, Bikramjeet Singh, who is himself selected by the HPCL (at Rs. 10 lakh) stated that, "It is for the first time that all mechanical engineering students in DCE have been placed in core engineering companies with fat packages. Earlier, if they expected good offers, they had to switch to software and other industries".

Moreover, as going per the placement cells records, 730 job offers were offered to total 500 students studying in the final year by the recruiting firms which added IOCL, BPCL, Reliance Energy, British Group, Maruti Udyog and Flour Daniel.