B-School Placements 2011 Highlights
| April 25,2011 10:15 am IST
It has been an excellent placement season at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow with total number of offers made reaching an all time high at 528, including pre-placement offers, lateral offers and offers made during final placements.
This year, the number of offers per student for a batch of 365 students who participated in placement stood at 1.
45. However, last year the figure was some where around 1.2 with a comparatively smaller batch size of 315 students.
A whooping 206 recruiters had visited IIM-L campus for recruitment, while the figure was much lower last year with 121 recruiters visiting campus. The number of recruiters at IIM-L this year is the highest across all IIMs.
Institute Total Recruiters
IIM Ahmedabad 120
IIM Bangalore 135
IIM Calcutta 138
IIM Indore 100
IIM Kozhikode 110
IIM Lucknow 206
IIM Shillong 24
If IIM-L had topped the list in terms of number of offers and recruiters, IIM- Bangalore had made it big in overseas placements. The total number of overseas offers made to IIM-B students this year is 74—the highest across all IIMs (the placement data of IIM-A has not been released yet). IIM Calcutta closely followed IIM-B with 64 international offers. In 2010, IIM-C had placed 17 students at international locations.
A post graduate degree in management is usually considered a sure shot route to success—success in terms of high paying salary packages. FMS New Delhi, JBIMS Mumbai and XLRI Jamshedpur had made it big in terms of average salary offered to the batch of 2011. The average salary offered by recruiters was above Rs. 15 lakhs at these b-schools. However, NITIE Mumbai, FMS New Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur have topped the list in term of salary offered to students placed overseas. The highest international package offered at NITIE and FMS is US$ 150,000, while XLers grabbed US$ 120,000.
Name of the institute | Average package offered | Highest package offered |
XLRI Jamshedpur | 15.5 | 30 |
FMS New Delhi | 15.4 | 26 |
JBIMS Mumbai | 15.54 | 26 |
SPJIMR Mumbai | 14.07 | 23 |
IIM Indore | 14.06 | 32 |
*(The order does not illustrate any ranking)
Overall, it was raining jobs and high pay packages at b-schools around India, depending on school’s popularity index.
Concluded.