Despite an economic slowdown and job cuts in some sectors, top Indian business schools put up a credible show

on placements. Average starting salaries ranged between R10 lakh and R16 lakh. The management students, who are mostly men with engineering degrees, preferred employment in finance, marketing and consulting. Employers were a diverse batch, from Bank of America and Flipkart.com to Yes Bank and German gaming firm Plinga.
Compiled by Prashant K. Nanda, prashant.n@livemint.com

HIRING STAYS ON TRACK

Placements 2012
Total students Total Recruiters Students opting out of placement Pre-placement offers Total offers accepted
(R lakh/ year)

Average domestic salary

(R lakh/ year)

Highest domestic salary

Top two recruiters school-wise

Highest recruiter
IBM Consulting Airtel Cognizant Business Consulting Deloitte Consulting IBM Goldman Sachs Accenture Management Consulting Infosys Deloitte NA Cognizant Business Consulting Infosys HCL Technologies
Others
50%

Offers

2nd highest recruiter

Supermax AT Kearney TCS HCL Technologies Deloitte Airtel ITC Yes Bank Standard Chartered NA HUL ICICI Bank Cognizant Business Consulting

Offers

IIM, Bangalore IIM, Calcutta IIM, Indore IIM, Kozhikode IIM, Lucknow XLRI, Jamshedpur FMS, New Delhi NITIE, Mumbai DMS, IIT-Delhi XIM, Bhubaneswar SPJIMR, Mumbai IMI, New Delhi IIFT, New Delhi

371 352 443 317 389 235 227 249 97 180 176 115 203

126 133 138 135 216 na 127 122 42 61 81 36 86

8 6 18 0 na 1 2 1 1 0 1 3 1

93 95 31 39 70 72 48 23 18 46 79 5 21

363 346 412 317 na 234 225 248 96 180 175 112 202
Consulting

NA NA 13.5 13.27 NA 16.48 16.34 10.77 13.08 11.42 15.45 9.75 10.83
Marketing /sales/advertising

NA NA 32 32 NA 40 NA 19.67 19 15.5 24 21 19
Finance/banking

17 28 16 20 12 8 15 7 11 18 10
NA NA

16 19 12 16 12 7 13 6
NA

NA

8 9 8

50%

Preferred sectors

General management

40%

40%

30%

30%

20%

20%

10%

10%

IIM Bangalore

IIM Calcutta

IIM Lucknow

IIM Indore

IIM Kozhikode

XLRI Jamshedpur

XIM Bhubaneswar

IIFT New Delhi

DMS IIT Delhi

FMS Delhi

SPJIMR Mumbai

IMI New Delhi

NITIE Mumbai

Batch Size

371

352

389

443

317

235

180

203

97

227

176

115

249

Student profile
IIM, Bangalore IIM, Calcutta IIM, Lucknow IIM, Indore IIM, Kozhikode MDI, Gurgaon XIM, Bhubaneswar FMS, Delhi IIFT, New Delhi SPJIMR, Mumbai NITIE, Mumbai IMI, Delhi JBIMS, Mumbai
93 90 85 89 91 95 90 84 85 84 100 78 80

Education
Engineering

(in %)

Commerce/science

Arts/economics /others

Work experience (in %)

No work experience 0-3 years >3 years

Gender diversity
(in %)

Male
28 15 35 31 19 6 10 12 13 16 5 5

Female

5 2 6 4 9 4 6 7 5 4 32 7 3 14 6 6 13 7 2 9 10 9 13

23 34 13 14 25 16 40 19 17 49 38

49 51 52 55 56 94 74 60 88 68 67 46 57

IIM, Bangalore IIM, Calcutta IIM, Lucknow IIM, Indore IIM, Kozhikode XIM, Bhubaneswar FMS, Delhi SPJIMR, Mumbai IMI, Delhi JBIMS, Mumbai DMS, IIT Delhi IIFT New Delhi NITIE

79 88 86 91 70 74 33 59 77 77 88 90 86

21 12 14 9 30 26 67 41 23 23 12 10 14
IIM Ahmedabad did not participate in the survey.

Graphics by Ahmed Raza Khan/Mint

IIM: Indian Institute of Management; FMS Delhi: Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi; NITIE Mumbai: National Institute of Industrial Engineering; DMS, IIT Delhi: Department Of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi; XIM, Bhubaneswar: Xaviers Institute of Management; SPJIMR Mumbai: S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Reasearch; IMI, New Delhi: International Management Institute; IIFT, New Delhi: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Source: CoolAvenues B-School survey