If you are looking for placements for CS jobs, a lot of branches from engineering are eligible for it. These include IT, EC, CS, and even EE sometimes. These branches are included from both campuses, CUSAT and CUSEK.

Many students from CUSEK also travel to CUSAT to attend placements. A few students from M.Tech and MCA are also eligible to appear for these placements.

• The criteria for eligibility differ from company to company but if you have a CGPA of 8.3 (75%) and no other backlogs.
• You can appear for almost every company that visits the college for placements.
• Once you have qualified past the eligibility criteria, you will realize that there is not much distinction between IT and CS branch students.
• Most companies end up treating all students equally.
• If you are looking to target specific areas for your development, programming skills, and interview prepare the ones you should focus on.
• Other than this, your class rank, CGPA as well other past backlogs will not matter if you ace the first two.
• Next, if you are looking to rank ease of placements branch-wise and package size, computer science is the leader.
• This is followed by IT, SF and EC at a tie, EE, and lastly ME and CE tying off again.

In my opinion, securing placements for CS is not that difficult. Students with pending backlogs also are placed so you do not have much to be worried about. Just do your best.