Placement Eligibility Checker
Enter your CGPA, pick your university, and instantly see which companies you're eligible for. Uses real cutoffs from the 2025–26 placement season.
How Placement Eligibility Works
Most service-based companies say "minimum 60% aggregate." Simple enough, right? Except 60% doesn't mean the same CGPA at every university. This is where students get tripped up.
See the problem? An AKTU student with 6.5 CGPA thinks they're safe ("6.5 is above 6.0, right?") but their actual percentage is only 57.5%. Not eligible. This tool does the conversion for you so you don't find out the hard way at a placement drive.
Company Cutoffs — 2025–26 Placement Season
| Company | Type | UG Cutoff | Backlogs | Approx. CTC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TCS (NQT) | Service | 60% | 0 | 3.3–3.6 LPA |
| TCS Digital | Service | 70% | 0 | 7–7.5 LPA |
| Infosys | Service | 60% | 0 | 3.6 LPA |
| Infosys (Power Programmer) | Service | 65% | 0 | 6.5–8 LPA |
| Wipro Elite | Service | 60% | 0 | 3.5 LPA |
| Cognizant (GenC) | Service | 60% | 0 | 4 LPA |
| Accenture | Consulting | 65% | 0 | 4.5 LPA |
| Capgemini | Service | 60% | 0 | 3.8 LPA |
| Deloitte | Consulting | 60% | 0 | 7.5 LPA |
| Product | No hard cutoff* | Varies | 30+ LPA | |
| Amazon | Product | No hard cutoff* | Varies | 26+ LPA |
| Microsoft | Product | No hard cutoff* | Varies | 40+ LPA |
*Google, Amazon, Microsoft won't tell you there's a CGPA cutoff. Technically there isn't one. But your placement cell will shortlist at 7.0+ for these companies because they can't send 400 students for one drive. The real filter is the coding round, not the number on your marksheet.
Things That Kill Eligibility Faster Than a Low CGPA
Everyone obsesses over the CGPA number. But in my experience, more students get knocked out of drives for reasons that have nothing to do with their CGPA.
Active backlogs are the biggest one. Almost every company requires zero active backlogs at the time of the drive. Cleared backlogs? Usually fine. Active ones? Hard no. I've seen students with a 7.8 CGPA get blocked because they had one pending backlog from third sem.
Then there's 10th and 12th percentage. Most service-based companies want 60% in Class 10 and 12 too. A 7.5 CGPA in B.Tech won't help if your 12th percentage was 58%. Students forget this one constantly.
Gap years trip up some people too. Not all companies care, but a few don't allow more than 1–2 years of gap in education. And branch restrictions are still a thing at some companies that only hire from CS/IT, though that's been loosening over the last couple of years.
What If Your CGPA Is Below the Cutoff?
Look, a low CGPA is not the end of the road. It's really not. Here's what actually works:
Off-campus hiring is bigger than most students realise. Companies like TCS and Infosys run off-campus drives through their career portals, and referrals from employees can bypass the CGPA filter entirely.
Startups mostly don't care about your CGPA. A solid GitHub profile or a couple of real projects will get you further than a 9.0 CGPA with nothing to show for it.
For product-based companies, here's my honest take: past a baseline CGPA (usually 6.0 or 6.5), DSA skills are the real filter. Nobody at Google is going to reject you because your CGPA was 7.2 instead of 7.5. They'll reject you because you couldn't solve the graph problem in round 2.
And if you interned somewhere and got a pre-placement offer, CGPA cutoffs usually don't apply at all. That's the quietest backdoor in the whole system.
Read more: Minimum CGPA for Placements (the full guide)
Placement Eligibility — Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum CGPA required for TCS?
TCS requires a minimum of 60% aggregate in your UG degree (plus 60% in Class 10 and 12, and zero active backlogs). What 60% means in CGPA depends on your university's formula. At Anna University and VTU's current 2022 scheme it's 6.0; at AKTU and VTU's older 2018 scheme it's 6.75; at CBSE-scale universities it's 6.32. Use the checker above with your university selected to get the exact number.
Do product-based companies like Google and Amazon have CGPA cutoffs?
Officially, no. Google and Amazon don't publish a minimum CGPA for campus placements. In practice, most placement cells set a 7.0+ cutoff for shortlisting because they can't send everyone. But the real filter is the coding interview. If you're strong in DSA, the CGPA matters far less. Off-campus? Usually no CGPA filter at all.
Can I get placed with a 6.0 CGPA?
Yes. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Capgemini, HCL, Tech Mahindra all need 60%. If your university uses a straight ×10 formula, that's exactly 6.0. If your university has a correction factor (VTU, AKTU, SPPU), you'll need a bit higher to actually hit 60%. Select your university in the checker above to see the exact CGPA you need.
Do cleared backlogs affect placement eligibility?
For most service-based companies, cleared backlogs are fine. What matters is zero active backlogs at the time of the drive. Cognizant is the notable exception: they check backlog history too, meaning they don't want any backlogs ever, even cleared ones. Always read the exact eligibility criteria in your drive notification.
Why does my friend with the same CGPA qualify but I don't?
Because you're probably at different universities. A 7.0 CGPA at Anna University (where Percentage = CGPA × 10) gives 70%. A 7.0 at AKTU (where Percentage = (CGPA − 0.75) × 10) gives only 62.5%. Same number, different percentages, different eligibility. That's exactly why this tool asks for your university first.
Is this data accurate for the current placement season?
These cutoffs are based on publicly available eligibility criteria from the 2025–26 campus placement season. Companies occasionally change their cutoffs between drives, and special tracks (TCS Digital, Infosys Power Programmer) have different requirements. Always verify against the official drive notification from your placement cell.