Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay continues with its illustrious placement record. This year, 62 companies showed interest in participating in the placement process of the institute. The batch of 48 people were given a total of 71 job offers, approximately 1.5 jobs offers per student. This included the pre-placement offers to students as a result of their summer internship with companies.

The placement process was scheduled for January 5-7, 2004. Many new companies along with the regular recruiters were invited this year. Companies like HLL, Marico, Accenture, Wipro, eClerx, Philips, Bharti, Nicholas Piramal, CGEY, IDBI, Tata Motors, Mahindra Consulting, Bennett Coleman & Co and other reputed firms took part in the placement process. By sunset on January 5th, the mood at the campus was upbeat with students getting job offers from their 'dream' companies.

The job mix was well spread across all the functional areas like Consultancy, Finance, Marketing, Systems/IT, SCM & Operations and General Management. Numerous opportunities in IT, Consultancy and Marketing were the highlight of the placement season at SJM SOM. Nearly 10% of the batch got foreign offers.

A beeline of high profile companies were gathered to select the highly coveted Management graduate from the school. The class of 2005,who would be graduating next year can only look forward to higher and higher platforms in placement added with the stable upswing of the economy.