Posts Tagged ‘Placements’

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

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

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