Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Final Placement Highlights of 2019 - Top MBA Colleges in Bangalore

It would be a dream come true for every management aspirant to get an offer from India's most prominent management institutes - The IIMs. Post-independence Indian government decided to set up two elite management institutes, named Indian Institutes of Management. Calcutta and Ahmedabad were chosen as the locations for the two new institutes in 1959.[1]

Year 1961 was the beginning of the first generation IIMs started with IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad. As on today, we are witnessing 3 generations of 20 IIMs who have contributed tremendously in education and overall development of the Nation.

This article will take you through the quick round of facts and figures of 7 first generation IIM established between 1961 to 2007.

IIM Placements Statistics 2019

IIM Calcutta

Established: 1961

IIM-C Placement 2019 Highlights

IIM Calcutta completes 100% placement on Day 1; students bag average salary of Rs 25.36 lakh
123 companies participated in the placement process.
501 offers made to the IIM-C students in total.
15% of the IIM-C 2019 batch received offer from more than 1 company.
Accenture was the largest recruiter with a total of 24 offers accepted by IIM-C PGP batch of 2019.
Around 50% of the students accepted offers in consulting and finance sectors.
Companies participated in placement process includes Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Avendus, AT Kearney, Bain & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co, EY-Parthenon, Alvarez & Marsal and PwC amongst others.

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IIM Ahmedabad

Established: 1961

IIM-A Placement 2019 Highlights

Fifty-three clusters participated in the second cluster, where Amazon emerged as the top recruiter, with 14 offers.
Boston Consulting Groups emerged as the top recruiter who rolled out 20 offers.
Placements at IIM-A conducted in three clusters which had companies from investment banking and markets, management consulting, consumer services, manufacturing, advisory consulting field and more.
Amazon emerged as the top recruiter, with 14 offers in the second cluster.
Top recruiters in the consumer goods segment included AB InBev, HUL and Saint Gobain with 7 offers each.
Under the consumer electronics segment, Samsung Electronics emerged as the top recruiter with 8 offers.
Aditya Birla Group was the top recruiter in the general management and leadership space with 9 offers
In the third cluster companies in consumer technology, IT consulting, pharma and healthcare, core manufacturing, enterprise tech, BFSI, green tech, and renewable energy segments took part.
Out of 40 firms that participated in the third cluster, Microsoft emerged as the top recruiter with 10 offers.
American Express and FinIQ with 8 offers each were some of the key recruiters in the third cluster.

IIM Bangalore

Established: 1973

IIM Bangalore Placement Highlights:

IIM Bangalore Placement 2019 witness 488 Offers, Consulting Firms as top recruiter With 161 offers.
The IIM Bangalore PGP class of 2017-19 with 411 students placed over two interview days.
Accenture with 31 offers was the lead recruiter in the consulting domain, followed by Deloitte with 25 offers.
20 offers in the Technology consulting domain was by PricewaterhouseCoopers making the maximum of 12 offers followed by Larsen and Toubro Infotech Consulting.
There were 54 offers overall in the Finance domain from Goldman Sachs with a maximum of 7 offers followed by JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, HSBC, Barclays, Standard Chartered along with other companies from Investment and finance sector.
Conglomerates recruited for their leadership tracks, making 40 offers in general management, with Adani Group leading with 7 offers followed by Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group and others including Wipro Global, Jindal, Mahindra Group, Reliance to name a few.
Sales and Marketing roles received 47 offers by major consumer goods firms like Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Samsung Electronics, P&G, Nestle, Asian Paints, Lenovo to name a few.
32 offers made in the fast-growing analytics domain by EXL Services, WNS Global, American Express, Gartner, UnitedHealth Group, Visa, MasterCard, Addzebra and CRISIL.
Operations roles saw 18 offers from Bharti Airtel, Uber, Cloudtail, Accenture Operations, Amway, and 4 others.

IIM Lucknow

Established: 1984

IIM Lucknow Placement Highlights 2019

IIM Lucknow marks 100% placements within 3 days.
The 33rd batch of 460 students of IIM-L finished their recruitment drive with 147 domestic and international recruiters.
The top four segments based on roles offered were consulting, finance, sales and marketing, and business development.
IIML did not disclose the pay packages of its students, according to sources.
Other segments based on roles were from e-Commerce and systems/IT, market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing, and HR.
Alvarez and Marsal, Aditya Birla Group, Bain and Co, Hindustan Unilever, JP Morgan Chase, MasterCard Advisors, McKinsey and Company, and The Boston Consulting Group were the key recruiters of IIM-L placement session 2019.

IIM Kozikode

Established: 1996

IIM Kozhikode 2019 Placement Highlights:

IIM Kozhikode witnessed 16% increase in both the mean and median salary this year.
13% increase in average annual CTC recorded with many offers exceeding INR 20 lakhs as a package.
The mean salary increased from INR 17.8 LPA in 2018 to INR 20.6 LPA in 2019.
21 new companies participated this year.
Top consultancies like McKinsey & Co, BCG, and Bain & Co. recruited on day 1.
373 students of IIM Kozhikode Batch 2019 witnessed 100% placements.
107 recruiters in total made 390 offers to 366 participating candidates of IIM-L.

IIM Indore

Established: 1996

IIM Indore 2019 Placements Highlights:

IIM-I achieves 100% campus record with the highest annual salary package of Rs 89.25 lakhs (international).
607 students of PGP batch 2019 of IIML secured placements.
The highest domestic package was Rs 40.5 lakh per annum, which is 23 percent higher compared to last year.
The average salary for the top 50 offers stood at Rs 30.04 lakh per annum.
Rs 19.4 lakh per annum was the median salary for this year.
Finance, Sales & Marketing and Consulting were the most preferred choice of domain among the students.

IIM Shillong

Established: 2007

IIM Shillong 2019 Placement Highlights:

IIM-S completes its 9th final placement season this year.
14% increase was observed with a median CTC of Rs 16 lakh per.
Highest domestic offer to PGPM batch of 2019 was made for INR. 26 lakh per annum.
41 recruiters participated and recruited 169 participants from IIM Shillong.
Consulting emerged as the highest paying domain, with the average CTC of 21 lakh per annum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Management