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IIM Bangalore might have been “The Employers’ choice” in Asia in recently conducted QA Global B-School ranking survey, however back home when it comes to placements, IIM Calcutta seems to be the choice of Indian and International recruiters. IIM Calcutta has emerged as the numero uno business school in India as far as placements are concerned as per the latest CoolAvenues.com Placements 2009 report, The ongoing global financial meltdown which impacted Placements 2009 at Indian B-Schools severally saw IIM Calcutta weathering the storm in much better way compared to other institutes. IIM Calcutta which earlier used to suffer due to its comparatively bigger batch size, is now at par with other IIMs as far as the batch strength goes and hence used its past experience of placing large batches in a better way in these uncertain times. Overall IIM Calcutta emerged as clear winner on following counts : Placements Salary: Recruiters paid highest average salary to IIM Calcutta graduates among all B-Schools as average salary paid at IIMC was at INR 12.7 lakh in comparison to INR 12.17 lakh at IIMA and INR 12.12 lakh  at XLRI, Jamshedpur. At the same time the highest salary paid to IIM Calcutta graduate was INR 60 lakh in comparison to INR 24 lakh paid to a IIM Kozhikode student. In Overseas placements, IIM Calcutta again emerged as No. 1 institute with highest salary at USD 130,000 p.a. and average salary at USD 86.875 p.a while IIM Ahmedabad graduates were placed at an average salary of USD 83,000. IIM Ahmedabad chose not to release highest international salary. IIM Bangalore might have been “The Employers’ choice” in Asia in recently conducted QA Global B-School ranking survey, however back home when it comes to placements, IIM Calcutta seems to be the choice of Indian and International recruiters. IIM Calcutta has emerged as the numero uno business school in India as far as placements are concerned as per the latest CoolAvenues.com Placements 2009 report, Full story

In the midst of speculation about the job scenario in today's turbulent times and its impact on the B-school placements, the ‘Autumn Placement Process’ for the PGDM batch of 2008-10 ended with the Institute effortlessly placing its 175 participants within a few hours of commencement of the process. Full story

Students of NITIE, Mumbai sailed through yet another placement season successfully, setting new benchmarks along the way though NITIE which used to release its placement report by January every year ended up doing so only in August. Full story

The Executive Placements 2009 at Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Roorkee got completed successfully this year. In a year that saw the world getting into a financial recession and the employment opportunities being dried up; with B-schools struggling to place their students, DoMS, IIT Roorkee, however, delivered successful placements to all the aspiring students. The department carved out a new strategy to counter the recessionary effect by effectively targeting companies and industry sectors where the outlook was positive. A cohesive effort toward this endeavor by expertly guided by the Head of the Department, Prof. Vinay K Nangia. Full story

The recently concluded summer placement season at DOMS, IIT Ro0rkee for the Batch of 2010 witnessed 100%  placement. The Summer Placement Process was completed to the utmost satisfaction of one and all in the batch with all 63 students being offered the widest possible range of profiles across the sectors. Students chose from a diverse set of profiles from a range of recruiters. The prominent feature of the Summer Placements this year was that most of the students landed with multiple offers and were guided by their interests and career aspirations. The students also had International offers for their internship programme. Overall the batch size of 63 had 95 offers in hand. Full story

With the global economic meltdown not sparing anyone, even B-school placements have taken a hit. This year, because of the strenuous recruitment conditions, we, at SIMSREE, decided to have a placement process in 3 phases, starting with the first phase in mid-January. Full story

  Placements at various IIMS in their executive program remained subdued due to ongoing economic downturn. In this unprecedented and sudden economic downturn, IIMA has almost concluded its Placement for class of 2009 with a success rate of 93%.  IIMA despite its strong alumni base, numero uno position of its brand, struggled for 5 months to place a batch of 77 students with a 93% success rate tell a lot about challenges faced by MBA program in turbulent times.  Full story

  Placement season for the final year students at Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur concluded with 65 companies participating in the final placement process. The average compensation stood at Rs 8.93 lakhs per annum, a drop of 22% as compared to the last year. The highest domestic compensation was Rs 14.7 lakhs per annum with 32 new recruiters visiting the campus this year.     Full story

One year Executive MBA program which has come into prominence in India due to success seen by ISB flagship one year MBA program faced its first real test after dotcom bust in year 2009. ISB which was launched in year 2001 faced a quite uphill task during its initial years but slowly overcame all troubles to emerge as one of top global destination for one year executive MBA program. ISB one year program gave much needed opportunity to executives with significant work experience and in middle management to tap the opportunities offered by elite “MBA” tag without sacrificing significant time in the campus with almost mint fresh students. ISB model became so successful that very soon all leading B-School in India including IIMs launched their own version of one year executive MBA program aimed at candidates with significant prior work experience. Full story

2009 seems to be year of PSUs as far as placements are concerned and TISS turned out to be no exception with almost 18% of the batch heading towards PSU.  The final placements of the Human Resources Management and Labour Relations (erstwhile PM&IR) batch of the TATA Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai for the batch of 2007-09 saw a batch of 60 students, walking away with preferred jobs in diverse industries and roles. Despite the global economic slowdown, recruitment was robust and this vindicates the institute’s position as being a top ranked school for Human Resource Management. Full story