While explaining the placements, Prof. Babu Viswanathan, IIT Madras Advisor (Training & Placements) said about 30 students deferred their placements this year as they either want to pursue higher studies or get into entrepreneurship. Last year we had about 20 students deferring their placements. In the first week, 180 companies provided 633 job offers to 564 students and 53 candidates accepted pre-placement offers. As against 1,237 registered for placement this year, 617 were placed till the end of first week.