IIM Calcutta Students Offered 100% Placement

Updated on: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Last year the final placement for the eighth batch of Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) at Indian Institute of Management IIM Calcutta saw a major increase of 24.8 percent in terms of salary offers. The IIM calcutta institute witnessed a number of Manufacturing companies, Management, Consulting and making attractive offers for the students.

A batch of 38 students in IIM Calcutta were offered jobs by 55 companies, out of which three students were sponsored, three on study leave and one who offered to opt out the mid-management to senior management-level jobs. The major recruitters like Amazon,Accenture, Microsoft, Dell, Ford Motors (IT), Google, Deloitte Touche, Oracle, Snapdeal, Omni Active, Atos Consulting, Micromax, Hero Motocorp and CESC among others. The highest salary for the batch offered is Rs 16.72 lakh and the avearge is Rs 22.5 lakh.

The most number of jobs were offered by the IT/Consulting and IT product firms, which made 10 to 12 offers each. The E-Commerce companies came up with eight offers. KPO, BPO and Real Estate agencies were also active participators.

PGPEX, which has dual accreditation of AACSB and AMBA is jointly conducted by three reputed institutes: IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Madras. The programme has an international dimension, according to which it takes the students for 2 to 3 weeks of industry visit in Japan to study Best Manufacturing Practices under the aegis of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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