There were 105 organizations that evinced interest in recruiting the graduating students at IIMB this year. Placement activities were initiated by Pre-Placement Talks (PPTs) with organizations making PPTs during the December 2002 to January 2003 period. However, only 64 organizations actually recruited IIMB students, making 214 offers through lateral and final placements. Four more organizations recruited only through PPOs - AF Ferguson, Iflex, Lehman Brothers and Wipro E Peripherals, and including the 18 PPOs received, there were a total of 232 offers from the 68 participating organisations for the 169 post-graduate and doctoral students that were placed through campus placement. Given the high diversity of educational backgrounds and prior work experience of the graduating batch, ten students are being placed in organisations outside the campus placement process, while three graduating students opted out of placements to join their former employers or their family business.

Lateral Placements introduced last year for graduating students with substantive prior work experience, were conducted from December 2002 to February 2003. A total of 25 lateral placement offers were made by 7 organizations, with Mphasis (6), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (5), Ramco Systems (5), Tata Elexi (4), SRF (2), Patni Computers (2) and CRISIL (1) making offers to eligible students at higher than entry levels. Some other organizations also offered lateral entry positions to doctoral students and post-graduate students with substantive prior work experience, later during the final placement process.

The largest recruiters on campus for permanent placements were ICICI and Infosys with 16 offers each. Some of the organizations making campus placement offers for the first time at IIMB this year were Agrotech, Air India, General Motors, ICICI Prudential Life, Joyco, Patni Computers, Pidilite, Power Trading Corporation, Techspan and UTI Bank.

The sector wise distribution of the 232 offers (including foreign offers, lateral offers and PPOs) was:

Automotive and Engineering (6 organizations - 18 offers):