Hello,

For higher education, Material sciences or Polymer Chemistry is probably the best fit after textile, University of Akron regularly sponsors candidates from IIT-Delhi. Pursuing higher education in an unrelated area is a challenge but most of the people have been able to follow their interests after working as a research assistant for some time.

For placements, most of the companies don't have any branch specific criterion (they only look at the CGPA and extra-curriculars). Following is list of some of such companies:

1) Consultancies: Mck, BCG, Bain, KPMG, Delloitte, PwC etc. (except EY)
2) Analytics: Fractal Analytics etc.
3) Banks: DB, Credit Suisse, Capital One etc.
4) Start-ups: Flipkart, Rocket Internet group of start-ups etc.

Most of the core-companies like HUL, ITC, P&G, BP, TI etc. don't hire textile graduates.

It is not easy to get placed in Day-1 companies like Mck, BCG, Bain, DB etc, most of the people get placed between Day 2 to Day 15. Almost everybody in my batch got placed through campus (some of them had to face difficulties owing to their low CG).

Most of the core jobs in textile companies like Trident, Arvind Mills etc. are located in remote locations in India. Typically a plant is divided into 5 departments, Procurement, Production, Processing, Finishing and Quality Control & Testing. Core-jobs are operationally heavy, require good subject knowledge of textile and would involve managing one of these departments.

I'm available if you need help with this.

Good luck!!