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Alumni & Placement Management Software on one record, seven years apart.

On the right is a graduate from the batch of 2019 who now works at a firm the placement cell is trying to get on campus. They are the same database — and that is the only interesting thing about this module.

Seven years on · Class of 2019 · alumna
AS
Ananya Sahoo B.Tech CSE · Class of 2019
Now
Senior Analyst · DeloitteBhubaneswar · updated 3 weeks ago
Giving back
✓ Available to refer✓ Mentoring 2
🎓Placed in 2019Infosys · Systems Engineer
🎤Spoke on campusCareer session · Aug 2026
Now · Class of 2026 · placement season
app.educare365.in/placement/season-2026● LIVE
Season dashboardB.Tech · 412 eligible14 DRIVES ACTIVE
Students placed
0
Placement %
0
Median package
₹5.8 L
Recruiters
0
Eligible412
Applied389
Shortlisted302
Interviewed274
Offered263
Accepted238
Quick answer

What Is Alumni and Placement Management Software?

One person, one record, eleven years. Move the marker and watch the same database row change its job.

AS Ananya SahooRoll 15CS042 · B.Tech CSE
Record created at admission · never re-entered

Alumni and placement management software is the part of an institutional ERP that runs the campus placement season and maintains the alumni network that follows it. Because the student record already exists, a final year student passes through drive registration, eligibility checks, shortlisting and an offer without being re-entered, and at graduation that same record becomes the alumni record.

Most institutions run these as two unrelated things: a placement cell with a folder of spreadsheets, and an alumni association with a WhatsApp group and a photo album. Both are maintained by hand, both go stale, and neither can answer the question that matters in October — do we already know somebody inside this company.

An alumnus is not a past student. An alumnus is a placement contact who already trusts you.

What the placement cell gets

Companies, drives and eligibility rules in one place, students who can only apply to what they qualify for, and shortlists, interview rounds and offers recorded against the student rather than in a shared sheet.

What the institution gets

An alumni directory that begins complete and is corrected by the alumni themselves, and the placement tables for NAAC, NIRF and the annual report drawn from the offers instead of rebuilt each cycle.

The placement cell's week

Training and Placement Cell Software That Runs the Whole Season

Fourteen drives at five different stages, which is what a placement cell actually looks like in November. Click any company to open it.

Tech MahindraAssociate Software Engineer · ₹4.5 LPA OFFERS OUT
The differentiator

Campus Recruitment Software: the Eligibility Gate Before the Shortlist

This is where a placement cell loses its days. Change the rules on the left and watch who the drive is actually offered to — students who do not clear them never see it, so the list going to the recruiter needs no cleaning.

Deloitte · Analyst

₹7.2 LPA · 2 Dec 2026
Minimum CGPA7.0
Allow one active backlog
Eligible branches

Other rules a drive can carry

  • Tenth and twelfth percentage, or the diploma aggregate
  • Maximum education gap in years
  • Programme and admission batch
  • Whether a student holding an offer may apply, and the dream company exception
Who the drive opens for0 of 10 shown
Scaled up, this is the whole argument: a batch of 412 generated 1,240 applications this season and not one of them came from a student who was never eligible. The placement officer did not filter a single row by hand.
The half that usually rots

Alumni Management Software: a Directory That Fills Itself

An alumni list that starts from scratch is dead in two years. This one starts complete — every alumnus was a student with a record — and is then corrected by the alumni themselves. Pick a batch.

Batch
Alumni in batch
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Traced
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Available to refer
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Where the traced alumni of this batch are, by sector. Untraced alumni are left out rather than guessed at.

Four of this batch, as an example. The full directory is searchable by employer, role, city, branch and batch — which is how the placement cell finds the graduate already sitting inside the company it wants on campus.
01

The graduate updates their own record

They sign in with the number the institution already holds, confirm their employer, role and city, and tick whether they will refer, mentor or speak. No form is posted to them and nobody maintains a list.

02

The placement cell searches its own network

Before approaching a company, the cell checks whether any of its own graduates already work there. For a smaller institution this is usually the only route to a first drive with a large recruiter.

03

The referral becomes a drive

That alumnus forwards the profile internally, the drive gets scheduled, and the students who clear its eligibility see it in their app — back at the start of the board, one year later.

The week the figures are due

Placement Reports for NAAC, NIRF and the Annual Report

Every accreditation cycle, somebody rebuilds these numbers from a spreadsheet and gets a slightly different answer than last time. These come from the offers themselves, which is why the annual report and the NIRF submission agree.

Placement percentage by year

B.Tech, all branches—

2026 is the season still in progress — the figure moves until the last offer is accepted.

Year Placed

Median package by branch

₹ lakh per annum, 2026

Median rather than average, because one outlier offer distorts a branch of forty students — and because NIRF asks for the median.

Branch Median
NAAC · CRITERION 5

5.2.1 placement & progression

Students placed and students progressing to higher education, per programme, per year, with the supporting offer list behind each figure.

NIRF · GO

Graduation outcomes

Placed, higher studies and median salary for the three preceding years in the format the submission asks for, not reshaped by hand each cycle.

AICTE

Annual mandatory disclosure

Recruiters visited, offers made and package ranges, generated from the same season records rather than recalled by the placement officer.

GOVERNING BODY

The annual report

The narrative version — top recruiters, package movement, branch by branch — which is the same data with a different cover sheet.

Answers

Frequently Asked Questions About Alumni and Placement

What placement officers, principals and alumni secretaries ask us before a demo.

It is the part of a school or college ERP that runs the placement season and keeps the alumni network that follows it. Because the student record already exists, a final year student moves through company registration, eligibility, shortlisting, interviews and an offer without being re-entered anywhere, and on the day they graduate that same record becomes their alumni record. The placement cell gets drives, eligibility and offer tracking; the institution gets a directory that fills itself and the placement tables NAAC and NIRF ask for.

A spreadsheet cannot stop an ineligible student from applying, cannot tell you which of your own alumni work at the company you are approaching, and has to be rebuilt every time NAAC or NIRF asks for the figures in a different shape. The work it hides is real: one placement officer we worked with was spending roughly two days of every drive reconciling who had applied against who was actually allowed to.

Yes, and that is most of the value. Each drive carries its criteria — minimum CGPA, permitted backlogs, eligible branches, tenth and twelfth percentages, whether an existing offer disqualifies a student. The portal only shows a drive to students who clear those rules, so the shortlist the recruiter receives does not have to be cleaned by hand first.

It starts complete, because every alumnus was a student with a record, and then it is maintained by the alumni themselves. They sign in with the number the institution already holds, confirm or correct their employer, role and city, and that update is visible to the placement cell immediately. Institutions typically trace between seventy and ninety percent of a batch this way, which is far more than a mailing list ever manages.

That is the point of keeping both halves in one database. An alumnus can mark themselves available to refer, to mentor a final year student, or to speak at a session, and the placement cell can see which companies on its target list already employ its own graduates. A referral from an alumnus inside the company is the single most effective way a smaller institution gets its first drive with a large recruiter.

Yes. Placement percentage, number of students placed, median salary, highest package, recruiters visited and higher studies or entrepreneurship counts are all derived from the records the season produced, per programme and per year. Because the figures come from the offers themselves rather than from a separately maintained sheet, the number in the annual report and the number in the NIRF submission are the same number.

Both, in different ways. Colleges use the full placement side — drives, eligibility, offers, reports. Schools rarely run campus drives, but they use the alumni half heavily: tracing where a passing batch went for higher studies, inviting alumni back for career talks and admissions outreach, and keeping an alumni association that has a real directory behind it rather than a photo album.

Their academic record is retained by the institution as it always has been, and their alumni profile is theirs to control — they choose what the directory shows, can correct their own details and can opt out of being contacted. Alumni are no longer students, and an institution that treats their contact details as its own property tends to find the directory stops being accurate very quickly.
Start with one batch

Send us one passing batch and we'll show you the directory it becomes

Give us the student list for a batch that has already graduated. We will load it, open the alumni portal to them, and show you how much of it traces itself back within a fortnight — before you commit to anything.

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