ET Campus Stars: India’s largest hunt for the brightest engineering minds. Register Now

The Economic Times is back with the fifth edition of ET Campus Stars (ETCS 5.0) continuing with its vision to inspire students to achieve true potential, with opportunities that will jumpstart their careers. Since its inception in 2017, the program has been identifying the brightest engineering talent that is poised to shape the future of the nation.

The program invites participation from third and fourth year engineering students across 100+ domains studying in an undergraduate engineering course from any of the AICTE approved colleges. To participate, students can register at www.etcampusstars.com

ETCS 5.0 consists of four phases where each phase is followed by a shortlisting process.

Phase 1 calls for entries along with a 45-minute online assessment that evaluates the candidate on quantitative ability, spatial reasoning, verbal reasoning, learning agility, logical & critical thinking, problem-solving, innovation-creativity, and attention to detail.

Phase 2 evaluates participants on conceptual and theoretical domain knowledge through an online assessment.

Phase 3, designed by Knowledge Partner Bennett University is an assessment of group dynamics and leadership abilities of the participant in a peer-to-peer interaction environment.

Phase 4 is a one-on-one interaction with the program jury comprising leaders from India Inc.

The Jury panel for ETCS 5.0 comprises Annie Mathew (CIO, Mother Dairy); Anu Acharya (Founder & CEO, MapMyGenome); Harsh Pokharna (Co-founder & CEO, OkCredit); Himanshu Verma (CPTO, Licious), Prof Dr Frank Gielen (Executive Board Member And Education Director, EIT InnoEnergy); Jitendra Agrawal (Global CTO, CARS24); Kunal Aggarwal (Founder & CEO, Credflow); T V Mohandas Pai (Chairman, 3one4 Capital; Co-Founder & Chairman, Aarin Capital; Chairman, Manipal Global Education); Prabhjeet Singh (President, Uber India South Asia); Rakshit Daga (CTO, Big Basket); Shashank Murali (CEO, Relevel by Unacademy); Shefali Bansal (Global Engineering Director, Red Hat); Sindhu Gangadharan (SVP & MD, SAP Labs India); Dr Sriram Devanathan (Principal, Amrita School Of Engineering, Bengaluru); and Yogesh Yadav (Country Head, Electronics & Electrical Commodity, Honda Cars India Ltd).

Why should engineering students participate in ET Campus Stars?
Having successfully completed four editions, the ET Campus Stars program over the years has provided students with opportunities to compete against the best of brains. Simultaneously, the program has also helped students qualify industry-endorsed assessments and facilitates engaging interaction with inspirational leaders of India Inc.

The fourth edition of ET Campus Stars (concluded in 2021) attracted participation from over 40,000 students and 2,000+ engineering colleges. Of these, 87 students made it to the coveted list of ‘Campus Stars’ and were felicitated by The Economic Times. Overall, more than 1.5 lakh engineering students have participated in the program across its 4 editions.

ET Campus Stars program has acted as a catalyst for students in self-discovering their core strengths and has helped them identify their limitations on a globally-validated and industry-endorsed process. Besides providing students with the opportunity of personal interaction with leaders of India Inc, the program has been instrumental in inspiring students to benchmark themselves against other engineering students across the country. Adding to this list of reasons is the nationwide recognition by getting a chance to be featured in The Economic Times.

How to participate?
To participate, students can register at www.etcampusstars.com and complete the Phase 1 Assessment.

ET Campus Stars 5.0 has Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham School of Engineering as the Presenting Partner, BridgeLabz as Employability Partner, EIT InnoEnergy as Sustainable Energy Partner; Auxilo as Education Loan Partner, Think Exam as Assessment Partner, and Bennett University as Knowledge Partner.

The program has also received support from government bodies like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) who found the program beneficial for young engineering students.

To know more about the program, visit www.etcampusstars.com