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Thoppilan Romal Devassy and Kannan Sunder both natives of Mumbai are seventh semester students of the computer science branch in BITS, Pilani and have created history by being offered a whopping $ 2,35000 annual package (more than 1.44 Cr) by Google in 2013.

Deciding on the highest salary of a CS student graduate is a bit difficult. Several factors contribute to deciding the salary of a CS Graduate.

• Tier of the college: what is a tier? Tier means level. Tier 1 colleges are IITs, Tier 2 colleges are NITs, and Tier 3 are private colleges. Companies that come in Tier 1 colleges pay handsomely to the students they hire. In tier 3 colleges, companies that come for campus placement doesn't offer a good salary package. They set an average salary package of 3-4lpa whereas in Tier 1 college sometimes the same company offers a package of 12-16lpa. In tier 2 college, the same company will offer around 6lpa. Therefore level of college does matter.
• Job Profile: Different job profiles have different requirements thus different salaries too. Companies visit different colleges for different profiles. For example, a product based company will visit IIT Bombay for a Developer position, but the same company will visit IISc for Data Science or Analytics position. Thus salaries vary as per the job profile.
• Skill: In the IT sector, skills are more important than your qualification. Even if you are a CS Graduate from Tier 3 college, you can still snatch a job with higher pay than a Tier 1 college candidate. The only necessary thing is a skill. In the past few years, we have seen this more often.