Growing preference for entrepreneurial pursuits - 10 students either stayed out of the placement process or rejected offers after being taken on by the entrepreneurial spirit.

Growing preference for Indian locations - 18 students gave up foreign offers to take up domestic roles this year.

Highest Indian pay package of INR 34 Lakhs per annum was offered at IIM Ahmedabad to a civil servant who was on sabbatical from Civil Services to study at IIMA.

Increased Global Recognition - Number of companies offering overseas jobs was as high as 20. Of the total job offers, 30% of the students were for overseas placements with Barclays giving the highest international package.

83 students were placed in Slot 0. This is a 41% increase over last year's 58.

The sectors with fresh and growing presence in the process this year were BPO, KPO, travel and tourism, supply chain consulting, amongst others.

IIM Bangalore

The highest salary offer for foreign placements touched USD $193,000 at IIM-B, setting a new record across the IIMs.

McKinsey and Co. was the single largest recruiter in this year's placement, inducting 9 IIMB students in its fold.

For the first time ever, ICICI, an Indian Bank recruited from IIMB for its global locations at London and Singapore offices.

Lehman Brothers (London), Amex Grss and German conglomerate, Freudenberg, recruited exclusively from IIM Bangalore.

IIMB created history this time with almost 1/3rd of the batch taking up offers from Day 0 firms. The total number of Day 0 offers itself increased by an unprecedented 58.5% from 41 to 65.

26% of the batch accepted a position in a consulting career, the highest across IIMs.

The private equity firm, SUN Group, and global manufacturing giant, Johnson Electric, recruited exclusively at IIM Calcutta.

IIM Calcutta maintains its leadership in attracting highest average salary (INR 9.81 Lakhs, domestic only) across campuses.

IIM Calcutta's students have become the first to be offered quantitative roles in NY and London by bulge bracket banks that have traditionally gone to American doctorates in Mathematics. IIM-C has come of age on Wall Street, as it witnessed the arrival of 30 IIM C grads (15 full-time hires & 15 summer interns) across bulge bracket banks.

IIMC witnesses highest international offer in excess of USD 100,000 in Lateral Placements.

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