Campus Placement Highlights
  A round-up of the latest on campus jobs and salary offers
 
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Indian School of Business
  • Highest International Salary $ 233800 (Rs 1.04 crore)
      
  • Average International Salary $ 120,700 (53.5 lakh)
       
  • Highest Indian Salary Rs 30.33 lakh
       
  • Highest Indian Salary Rs 11.77 lakh
       
  • Of the four people who received (the highest) offers of jobs paying more than $200000, two were women.
       
  • The highest international and domestic salaries were offered by Indian technology companies.
       
  • Atleast 30 students chose careers over money.
        
  • Jobs were offered in new sectors like real estate consulting, retail, health care services, rural education and media apart from the usual suspects - management consulting, finance and IT.
     
 
IIM Calcutta (Final Placements)
  • 505 offers for 249 students
     
  • Out of 114 companies which confirmed participation only 89 could participate
     
  • Out of 77 foreign job offers, 51 were accepted 
      
  • Details of salaries offered
     

       
  • 100 per cent PPO conversion rate at top-league banks like Merrill Lynch (7/7), Barclays capital (3/3) and a significant number at Lehman Brothers, HSBC, JP Morgan and others.
 
IIM Ahmedabad (Final Placements)
  • 510 job offers for 235 students
     
  • 83 students placed on Day Zero itself
     
  • For the first time, the position of Country Head offered (by RPG Enterprises). The company has given the highest domestic salary of Rs 34 lakh p.a.
     
  • Average domestic salary offered was Rs. 9.72 lakh p.a.
       
  • Average international salary offered was US $92,500
       
  • The highest international package was by Barclays at an unprecedented USD 1,85,000 (Singapore $300000)
      
  • The highest number of job offers were made by Barclays Capital(16), Lehman Brothers(12) and McKinsey & Co.(8)
 
IIM Calcutta (Day One)
  • 27 companies visiting campus on Day One
     
  • Of the 140 job offers made, 86 offers have been accepted
     
  • The highest Indian salary offered till now is Rs.14.5 lakh plus bonus
     
  • Highest international salary offered: US $110, 000 plus bonus
       
  • Day One recruiters include P&G, HLL, TAS, ICICI Securities, Accenture, Kotak Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley Equity research, British Gas, Irevna, Inductis, HSBC India, Nokia Standard chartered, Bank Am, Amex, Citigroup, Cognizant, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst &Young, KPMG and Deloitte Consulting.
       
 
IIM Bangalore (Day Zero news!)
  • 34 per cent of the 2004-06 batch placed on Day Zero
     
  • Highest international salary offered: US $193,000
     
  • Highest domestic salary offered: Rs. 30 lakh p.a., which is till now the highest across all B-school campuses in the country.
     
  • Crème-de-la crème of recruiters in global investment banking, consultancy throng the campus with international offers.
 
Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon
  • Mean salary for the PGPM course rising to Rs 9.1 lakh from Rs. 8.32 lakh last year.
     
  • Average salary for the inaugural HR batch was Rs 8.03 lakh p.a while the mean figure stood at Rs. 7.75 lakhs p.a.
 
Indian Institute of Forest Management, Pune
  • A batch of 43 students placed in seven days of recruiting
     
  • An increase of 7.5 per cent in job offers this year over that of last year
     
  • Day Zero job offers moving up from 20 last year to 36
     
  • Average domestic salary this year: Rs 4.2 lakh p.a.
       
  • Highest domestic salary of Rs. 8 lakh p.a. offered by Olam India
      
  • Highest foreign salary of US $45,000 offered by Olam International
       
  • Three international job offers spread across Africa and the Indian subcontinent
 
IIM Kozhikode
  • 423 offers for 133 students
     
  • 48 students received pre-placement offers/interviews
     
  • Average domestic salary offered till now: Rs 9.02 lakh p.a.
     
  • Highest domestic salary offered is Rs 16.67 lakh p.a. in the banking and financial services sector
       
  • Highest foreign salary offered till now: US $70,000 by US Capital
 
IIM Calcutta (Lateral Placements)
  • Rise in international offers from 14 in 2005 to 21 in 2006
     
  • 65 lateral jobs offered in comparison to 39 accepted offers last year
     
  • Salary package offered in the range of Rs 7.5 lakh p.a. to Rs 16.2 lakh p.a.
     
  • Microsoft, SAP consulting group and Johnson Electric Exclusive among recruiters for IIM Calcutta lateral candidates
        
  • New recruiters include Johnson Electric, ICICI Bank, JP Morgan, SAP India Labs, Oracle, Intel, ECS Consulting, US Tech, Essar Group, Dell International Services, Techspan and Hexaware.
 
IIM Ahmedabad (Day Zero)
  • International offer of $185,000 from Barclays Capital
     
  • Average international salary offered goes up from US $70,000 to US $80,000-90,000 bracket
     
  • Highest domestic salary offer speculated to go up from 14.5 lakh p.a. last year to 16 lakh p.a.
     
  • Reliance Industries Limited expected to recruit for the first time from IIM-A

 

IIM Indore
  • 295 job offers for the 113-strong batch
     
  • 8 international job offers
     
  • Average annual salary offered: Rs 8.5 lakh
     
  • Highest international salary offered: US $70,000 by Olam International
     
  • Highest domestic salary offered: Rs. 12.5 lakh
     
  • Investment bank Macquaire debuts on campus with an offer of US $63,775 for Property Analyst profile on campus

 

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi
  • 184 offers for 86 candidates
     
  • Average annual salary offered: Rs. 8.9 lakh
     
  • Highest domestic salary offered by HSBC Bank: Rs. 14.5 lakh p.a.
     
  • Highest international salary offered: US $65,000 by Olam International .
     
  • Average salary offered US $62,000
     
  • 41 per cent of the batch picked for foreign jobs