Posts Tagged ‘Placement 2009’

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

  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

    Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar achieved yet another 100% Placement record for its Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) students for the year 2009, despite the global meltdown and recessionary market trends. Full story

Year 2009 has so far seen significant reversal in the fortunes of executive MBA programs with leading institutes like ISB, IIMs barring IIM Calcutta extending their executive MBA program placements  indefinitely. The Mumbai based S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)’s one year Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) for executives clocked an impressive 100% placement for its 4th batch comprising 56 participants having an average work experience of around 5 years.   Full story

Despite the talk of all gloom and doom, placements at B-School seems to be going pretty well if one goes by the highest salary being paid to mint fresh MBA graduates from top and not so top MBA institutes in Country.  The latest institute to beat placement blues successful is SJMSOM, IIT Mumbai where not only 100% of the batch got placed successfully, many students ended up having multiple offers with lot many disappointed recruiters as per the press release issued by SJMSOM, IIT Mumbai. A total of 60 companies were vying for some of the best minds across the business schools. The domestic average salary for the Batch of 2009 stood at INR 10.28 lakhs. After including the foreign offers the average salary was INR 10.61 lakhs. The highest domestic salary offered was a staggering INR 21.08 lakhs. Full story

      Placement year 2009 is witnessing considerable stress on Executive MBA program where barring IIM, Calcutta, all executive MBA programs at leading B-Schools ( IIMA, IIML, ISB,Hyderabad etc) are witnessing extended placements scenario. In this gloomy market, despite the global phenomenon, Great Lakes continued its success story for the fifth consecutive year by providing the best placement to its students. Over 80% of the batch has been placed as of 14th April 2009, with roles & remuneration matching the individual’s aspirations. Full story

Meltdown of the markets from October led to lay-offs across sectors all over the world and most organizations seemed to be putting their growth plans on hold. Yet Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), managed to rise to the challenge, ensuring 100% placements for its students, and in the process, adding 20% more recruiters to its previous year’s numbers. In times like these when a lot of companies were not recruiting in large numbers, what made IIFT stand out was the diversity of the recruiters across various sectors, offering a plethora of profiles. Full story

IIM Calcutta’s PGPEX (Post Graduate Programme for Executives) program  seems to have beaten the ongoing recession blues by having an exceptional placements for its 2nd batch in these uncertain times where the highest salary touch a figure of INR 35 lakh  p.a. and average salary at 18 lakh p.a.   Though overall there has been fall in salary levels compared ... Full story

  Following the now-familiar trend of this year’s placements at all top business schools, ISB Hyderabad, which ranked 15th in the 2008 Global MBA Rankings released by the Financial Times, had to extend its placement season indefinitely, as per latest reports making rounds in media circle. Full story