IIMK Registers 100% Final Placement for One-Year MBA in Business Leadership
Average salary at INR 29.32 LPA; Median salary at INR 25 LPA Highest salary offer received is INR 43.9 LPA 50 companies make 66 offers, including 4 international offers, to 58 participating students. Consulting draws nearly 50% offers while General Management, Sales & Marketing, and Product Management account for about 15% each.
Kozhikode: The Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership (PGP-BL), the one year residential MBA program, offered by the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode witnessed a strong placement season for the graduating batch of 2023. The third batch of PGP-BL achieved 100% placements for participating students in record time. The batch was comprised of a diverse cohort of participants with pre-MBA work experience in varied sectors such as manufacturing, technology, automotive, retail, finance, healthcare, public sector, and family business.
The average salary secured by the students stood at INR 29.23 LPA, while the median salary secured by the students is INR 25 LPA. The program attracted the participation of 50 companies which made 66 offers, including 4 international offers, to the 58 participating students. The highest salary offer recorded is for INR 43.9 LPA.
Congratulating the IIMK placement team Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director IIM Kozhikode added “The success of the placement process speaks volumes of the competency of this unique one-year MBA. This diverse offering has time and again proved that IIM Kozhikode’s mission to nurture young professionals with experience into potential business leaders, is on a sound academic and industry footing. The diverse industry talent pool, support of IIMK’s strong alumni base, trust of the recruitment partners and the growing reputation of IIM Kozhikode, were factors that stood strong by us and supported the successful process.”
Consulting sector extended half of the offers received, while General Management, Sales & marketing, and Product management extended about 15% each. Some prominent recruiters that took part in this year’s placement process were Accenture Strategy, Accenture Technology, Accenture Operations, HSBC, Ernst & Young, Publicis Sapient, IBM Consulting, Cognizant, JSL, Standard Chartered, Axis Bank, Infosys Consulting, TheMathCompany, Merilytics, Quantiphi, Mphasis, Reliance Jio, Hexaware, Tata Elxsi, Whatfix, OneCard, and Paramount among others.
Prof. Qambar Abidi, Placements Chairperson at IIM Kozhikode added, “The sustained success of the Business Leadership programme is a testimony to the faith of our recruitment partners in the high-intensity and holistic curriculum and regimen followed at IIM Kozhikode.”