Chennai - 2nd Best City for Computer Science Grads

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Chennai – The ‘Fourth Largest Economy’ and ‘Third Highest GDP Producer’ of India has an economy of over US$210 billion. Contributing a larger share in the growth of Indian GDP, this South Indian city has gained established India in the race of economic development.

Today, Chennai leads the automobile, software, medical tourism, hardware manufacturing and financial service market of India. Chennai is the second largest software producer and IT/ITES exporter of our country. Software companies mushroomed in the city in the earlier 20s and have made their mark in the international arena. Today, these companies are the largest employer and producer of countless freshers job in Chennai and hence contribute maximum towards cities growth after automobile sector.

Software Market of Chennai

IT companies came Chennai in late 1990s and software development along with business process outsourcing today have become one of the largest producer of jobs in the city. Business Process Outsourcing, IT and Electronics Manufacturing have became largest employer of the state. Chennai also has highest number of industrial zones, approximately 15, which altogether houses about 34,260 world recognized companies.  

Chennai has currently become the most attractive Indian city for outsourcing services and live in. Major software companies headquartered in Chennai are:

• Aricent
•  Accenture
• Cognizant Technology Solutions
• Capgemini
• Oracle Corporation
• Cisco Systems
• HCL
• HP
• IBM
• Infosys
• Sun Microsystems
• Symantec
• Verizon
• Wipro
• Dassault Systèmes
• eBay
• Intel
• Amazon
• Tech Mahindra
• IGATE Patni
• Adobe Systems
• Ramco Systems
• Microsoft

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IT corridors such as of Old Mahabalipuram Road in the Southeast of Chennai hosts several technology parks and employs almost 3 Lakh professionals. This economic and political capital of Tamil Nadu has maximum number of SMEs and startups. It also has highest number of ‘Special Economic Zones’ which are producing maximum number of jobs in the city, especially for freshers. Mahindra World City located in New Chennai is country’s first integrated business city promoted under PPP (Public Private Partnership) of Mahindra Group and TIDCO (Government of Tamil Nadu Enterprise).

Final Words

Chennai today is the largest producer jobs in the country. Being the largest automobile and software market of the country, it is also the biggest employer of fresher talent in the country. Thousands of companies produce hundreds of freshers job in Chennai, especially in the automobile and IT domain, India’s second biggest job engine after Bangalore.

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