How a Placement Cell That Started With One Marquee Offer Built a 3,500-Placement Season, Put a Small-Town Student at 43 LPA, Sent Hospitality Graduates to Hotels in New Zealand at 28 LPA, and Then Watched Two Parents Speak Without Notes on Stage and Remind Everyone What All of It Actually Means

Soumya Dhakad is from a small town. His package of 43 LPA at a multinational company is the highest of the season. When his parents were given space on stage during Placement Day to speak about what this meant for their family, they did not have prepared remarks. They did not use slides. They did not speak in corporate language. What came out was unfiltered. They spoke about their son, about where they come from, and about what it means for a family like theirs to see their child placed at a company of this scale with a package of this size. They were not practiced public speakers. It was a proud moment for the parents to speak for their child and present their journey in front of 1200+ students, without any preparation. It was filled with raw emotions.

Simran Chouhan, Event Faculty Coordinator of the Placement Cell, said it was the first time parents were on stage sharing their experience. The way they expressed those emotions was so inspiring. The parents’ session turned out to be the best moment. When the day is filled with placement numbers, stats, and formal ceremonies, this story of two parents from a small town sharing their journey and their child’s journey cuts through everything else. The moment was raw, not prepared, and without notes, where parents presented their true emotions in front of the 3500+ success stories.

The Placement Cell closed this season with 3,500+ confirmed placements, the highest number the university has ever recorded and, according to the Placement Cell, the largest single-year figure for any university in Gujarat.

• 3,500+ confirmed placements (Gujarat record for a single season)
• 459 students secured two or more offers from different companies
• 27 students secured four or more offers across different companies and recruitment processes
• 1,337 students received offers of 5 LPA and above
• 23 marquee offers at 20 LPA and above, ranging from 43 LPA to 23.40 LPA
• Highest package (current batch): Soumya Dhakad, BTech CSE, 43 LPA at a multinational company
• Highest package (2027 batch, early): Tanish Patel and Suraj, 60 LPA each at Microsoft
• 4 students selected in the LinkedIn national Top 100 through coaching and mentorship
• 234 B.Tech/MCA students are placed in TCS and Reliance Industries Ltd., with 108 students placed in Reliance Industries Ltd.
• On 8th April 2026, 315 selections of students in a day.
• Package progression: 22.5 LPA (2023 highest) to 43 LPA (current batch) to 60 LPA (2027 early)

The 459 multi-offer figure is the one that deserves the most attention. Volume tells you how many students got placed. Multi-offer data tells you how well-prepared those students were. When 459 students independently clear recruitment processes at two or more companies, and 27 clear four or more, it means companies are arriving at the same conclusion: these students are worth hiring. Susmitha Tavva (B.Tech CSE) received four offers from SHNOOR International, Capgemini, LTM, and HCLTech in a single season. Surya Teja Vulli received offers from both Hexaware and Capgemini. Kairavi Jhaveri holds two separate marquee offers above 20 LPA from Scenic Hotel Group (27.86 LPA) and another hospitality brand (27.33 LPA).

Capgemini was the largest confirmed recruiter with 157 offers. Cognizant presented 86. LTM delivered 79. The university received 234 offers for B.Tech/MCA students from TCS. Reliance Industries Ltd. hired diploma students with 81 selections, of which 64 were from the 2027 batch. Overall 108 students selected by Reliance Industries Ltd. They are sharing this information to share the success stories and not for the marketing and stats purposes. The placement cell is also waiting for the confirmation, and it is their deliberate decision to wait rather than give an unverified number. Together, these four companies account for over 500 of the 3,500+ placements.

Beyond the mass recruiters: Microsoft (60 LPA), BP (Kondapalli, B.Tech CSE), Hexaware, HCLTech, SHNOOR International, DHL (Amal Pushp, MBA Logistics), ICICI Lombard (Vaideshree Nakrani, LLB), Setco Auto Systems (Fairy Bhatia, MBA HR with SAP), CSRBOX/BharatCares (Dhruvik Dave, MSW), and international hotel groups across New Zealand and Australia: Scenic Hotel Group, Rydges Hotels, Millennium Hotels, Best Western, Sudima Hotels, Legacy Hotels, Hermitage, Te Arai Links, Lake View Colonial, and Little India.

The range matters. When a placement cell places B.Tech CSE graduates at Microsoft AND hospitality graduates at Te Arai Links in New Zealand AND law graduates at ICICI Lombard AND social work graduates at CSRBOX AND BCA graduates at two companies simultaneously, it is operating across the full width of India’s employment market, not just the IT sector.

Of the 23 marquee placements (20 LPA and above), 14 come from the hospitality programme. Not engineering. Not computer science. Hotel Management and Catering Technology students placed at international hotel groups in New Zealand and Australia at packages ranging from 23.40 LPA to 28.06 LPA. Vishal Maurya at Te Arai Links (28.06 LPA). Kairavi Jhaveri at Scenic Hotel Group (27.86 LPA) with a second marquee offer at 27.33 LPA. Three students at Millennium Hotels at 26 LPA each. Two at Best Western at 24 LPA each. Two at Sudima Hotels. Two at Hermitage. Ranveer Singh Parmar and Ashutosh Maurya at Rydges Hotels at 27.33 LPA each. Seven different international hotel groups. Fourteen students. Packages that many engineering graduates at other institutions would consider exceptional.

This is the data point that challenges every assumption about what a Gujarat-based university’s placements look like. It did not happen by accident. Parul University’s Hotel Management programme operates training kitchens, a mock aircraft for aviation training, and a grooming and etiquette studio. The practical learning tour programme has taken students to 280 companies across 19 cities, including Taj Rambagh Palace (Jaipur). When international hotel groups in New Zealand are hiring Vadodara-trained hospitality graduates at 28 LPA, the training infrastructure is producing globally employable professionals, not just degree holders.

Mr. Gurcharan Singh, Director of Training and Placement, addressed the gathering and articulated a philosophy that connects directly to the multi-offer data: education must be tailored to meet the demands of industry. He spoke about how the first marquee placement came through, the moment a multinational company made an offer to a Parul student and the conversation about what was possible changed permanently. He spoke about how the team built relationships with companies that go beyond seasonal hiring visits, about the preparation systems put in place year after year, and the placement cell’s role is not simply to connect students to companies but to make students into the kind of people that companies genuinely want. When 459 students receive two or more offers, it is because those students went through preparation systems that made them competitive across multiple companies, not just trained for one specific recruiter’s aptitude test.

This philosophy extends beyond the placement cell into the university’s broader ecosystem. Students who organise the Vadodara Food Festival run 40 restaurants from scratch, managing menus, pricing, supply chains, and P&L. Students who coordinate PIMC manage logistics for a competition judged by Supreme Court and High Court justices. Students at PIERC build startups that have appeared on Shark Tank India (Rehabveda, Season 5, Namita Thapar). A BA LLB alumnus is now a law clerk at the Supreme Court of India. NCC cadets hold the PM’s Baton and serve in the Indian Navy and Air Force. The placement cell does not operate in isolation. It operates within an institution that builds competence across every dimension of professional readiness.

Over 1,200 students attended Placement Day. The event team, led by Simran Chouhan, had to organise and distribute 1,200 trophies, 1,200 certificates, and 1,200 food coupons while simultaneously managing a balloon release ceremony, a formal procession, a felicitation process, a cultural performance, and a complete stage programme with senior university leadership. Simran said: There was so much happening in our minds. How it will happen, what will happen, a lot of things. But everything happened in a very good manner. She spent most of the day backstage, coordinating operations, unable to witness much of the stage programme directly.

The balloon release set the visual tone. Hundreds of balloons going up from the campus grounds, parents standing with their children, many of them seeing something like this for the first time. The procession followed: students and their parents walking together through the campus in a deliberate, organised march. For parents who had travelled from small towns across the country, who had invested years of savings and carried years of quiet anxiety about whether it would pay off, walking through this campus as the parents of a placed student was the answer to all of it. Parents were extremely happy, Simran said. They were so proud that their kids are those who got placement from the college. For them it is like a very new thing.

Dr. Devanshu Patel, President of Parul University (MBBS and MD from MSU Baroda), provided the trajectory context: the highest package was 22.5 LPA in 2023, rose to 43 LPA in the current season, and the 2027 batch has already recorded 60 LPA at Microsoft. He pushed the conversation forward toward the next batch and the records still to be broken. Dr. Kunjal Sinha, Prof. Vice Chancellor with 22 years of experience in academic leadership and quality assurance, reflected on what 3,500 placements actually require from an institution: not just company relationships but academic infrastructure, quality standards, and consistent investment in developing students from their first year. Her presence alongside the placement cell leadership signaled how seriously the university’s senior administration treats placement as an institutional outcome, not a department function.

After Placement Day, 22 students posted about their experience on personal LinkedIn profiles. These are not institutional testimonials. They are what students chose to say, in their own words, to their own professional networks. Mutthuluri Varun Kumar (B.Tech CSE AI) wrote: Placement is not the end. It is the proof that you did not give up when it was hardest. Dolly Batra (BCA) wrote: Got placed in not only 1 but 2 companies and I really cannot believe it. Suraj Solanki (B.Tech CSE) wrote: Nights without sleep. Rejections that hurt. Moments I wanted to quit. But I did not. I kept learning. I kept trying. Today I am placed. Aditi Kumari (B.Tech CSE AI/ML) served as anchor and coordinator for the T&P Cell, describing how the experience gave her confidence, event management skills, and learning beyond the classroom.

Eleven different programmes are represented in these 22 posts: B.Tech CSE, B.Tech IT, B.Tech CSE AI/ML, BBA, MBA HR, MBA Logistics, MBA Healthcare, MBA Marketing, MBA Digital Marketing, LLB, MSW, BCA. Each post is on a verifiable LinkedIn profile with education history, certifications, internships, and connections. When someone asks whether Parul University placements are real, 22 LinkedIn profiles with named companies, verified credentials, and personal testimonials provide the answer.

Placement Day is not the beginning of the work. It is the point where a full year of effort, drives, preparation sessions, recruiter coordination, rejection support, documentation, company visits, and everything in between, becomes visible in one place at one time. When asked what a day like this means personally, Simran said: It is the sum of our emotions. We did it. Like that. It is all worth it. Because it is a journey of the whole year. That answer carries a specific weight when held against 3,500+ placements, 459 multi-offer students, 23 marquee offers, 1,200 students at the event, and two parents from a small town who stood on a stage and said what it meant that their son had made it.

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