Entire batch (119 students) placed in few hours

45 companies - like Oracle, Citibank, AT Kearney, Idea Cellular and Maruti - came to IMI campus this year

IMI is ranked in the A+ (topmost) category by All India Management Association

IMI is India's first industry-sponsored business school and was established by companies like ITC, RPG Group and Nestle in 1981

The entire batch of 119 MBA students at IMI was placed in few fast-paced hours, with handsome salary packages.

Companies that came visiting the campus were from diverse sectors - from banking and insurance to technology, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, consulting, industrial products, market research, credit rating agencies, telecom, power, real estate, consumer durables and media companies. All in all, with 45 companies visiting the IMI campus for placements, the students had a wide array of companies and industry segments to choose from.

Amongst the companies that visited IMI this year for placements, there were: Citibank, HDFC, ICICI, Indus Ind (banking); Oracle, TCS, HCL Comnet (technology); CARE (credit rating agency); McKinsey KC, AT Kearney (research); Ranbaxy, Torrent (pharma); MetLife, Iffco Tokio (insurance); DCM Sriram Consolidated Ltd., JK group (industrial products); ACNielsen ORG-MARG, IMRB (market research); Radio Mirchi, ABP (media); Indiabulls, CitiFinancial (financial services); CEAT, CB Richard Ellis, E-value serve, PFC and Maruti.

The most popular sector for the students at IMI this year was, undoubtedly, banking - with the top banks like Citibank, HDFC, ICICI; picking up, in all, 32 students. The star recruiter at IMI this year was Citigroup, which recruited 12 people, even as HDFC and ICICI picked up 7 students each.

The recruiters, having found the good quality of people that they were looking for, went back happy. As a comment, consider the fact that 80% of the recruiters this year have recruited from IMI in the past. Not to say that new-generation companies like Oracle, Idea Cellular, Radio Mirchi and Newgen Technologies also turned up at IMI campus for quality recruits.

Though the placement week at IMI was scheduled from January 10th to 16th, all the students were placed within a few hours. Many prestigious companies had to draw a blank as they visited IMI campus 'too late'.

IMI - India's first corporate-sponsored B-school - was established by companies like ITC, RPG Group and Nestle in 1981, and the institute has maintained its strong ties with the industry. This is also reflected in the extremely good placements of the institute's MBA batch of 2003-05. With a special focus on nurturing managers and leaders of international caliber, the school; ranked in the A+ (topmost) category by All India Management Association; places a special emphasis on the same in its curriculum. The institute has been associated with some of the leading international business schools. Started in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD Lausanne), today, the institute has a thriving student exchange programme with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok and ESC Rennes, France. In as much, the institute offers courses in 3 foreign languages to its students. IMI is India's premier business school with an international perspective and is located in the heart of the capital with world-class faculty and infrastructure.

In short, IMI has lived up to, rather exceeded, the expectations of its founders and is true to its character of being India's first corporate-sponsored business school.