Successful Placement of Largest Indian B-school Batch
at IIM Ahmedabad Final Recruitments

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) conducted its final recruitment process between March 14th and 22nd. A total of 477 job offers were made to 247 students who participated in the placements of the 2003 - 2005 batch (Profile given in Table 1). This is an increase of 49% in number of students over last year. The number of companies whose offers were accepted also increased by 40% to 76 companies from 54 last year.

Table 2 provides the details of the offers and acceptances.

IIMA: An Internationally Recognised Brand

IIMA's ability to consistently produce graduates capable of matching and surpassing the best globally was reaffirmed. Not only did existing recruiters maintain their relationship with IIMA by recruiting large numbers but many new recruiters also came down to recruit based on the growing global reputation of IIMA graduates. The number of companies offering overseas jobs increased from 13 in 2004 to 21 in 2005. About a third of the batch was placed overseas. Major investment banks such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley continued their association with the institute. So did the global consulting majors, AT Kearney, BCG and McKinsey. 22 new companies came to the campus this year. (Table 3 provides the details of new recruiters)

Greater Job Diversity

There was greater choice available to the graduating batch both in terms of jobs being offered in new sectors and also greater diversity within a sector.

The new sectors, which recruited this year, included private equity, hedge funds, infrastructure consulting, corporate treasury, civil aviation and analytics.

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