In a first, London stock exchange group hires Odisha students

The students were selected during a campus recruitment drive, Prof. (Dr.) Raj Kumar Hota, Dean, Career Development, Industry Collaboration and Placement, said.

In a first, London stock exchange group hires Odisha students

Photo: London Stock Exchange

For the first time in Odisha, 11 students of the 2026 batch of the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), faculty of engineering and technology of the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here, have been hired by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a Fintech product-based company.

The students were selected during a campus recruitment drive, Prof. (Dr.) Raj Kumar Hota, Dean, Career Development, Industry Collaboration and Placement, said.

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“The process was quite rigorous through a six-round selection exercise. This is the highest number of students LSEG has hired from any institute in the country so far,” Prof ( Dr.) Hota said.

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LSEG was highly impressed with the quality of B.Tech and MCA students of ITER, Sumit Mitra, Head, Career Development Cell, said.

ITER has been ranked 22nd among the top 100 engineering institutes in the country in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2025, which were released recently.

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