All 525 eligible students of IIM Bangalore were recruited for summer placements by over 130 companies which made 529 offers. Roles offered included PE/VC, Business Analytics, Consulting, Finance, General Management, IT/Product Management, Operations, Sales and Marketing.
“The entire process of summer placements was conducted online, all 525 students, including PGP and PGP BA students, were placed in less than a week of starting the process,” said Professor U. Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson of Career Development Services at IIM Bangalore.
“The novelty of the virtual ecosystem, integrated for the online summer placements 2021, will always be a landmark achievement. The continued support of our existing recruiters, the excitement of new recruiters and the amazing teamwork amongst all stakeholders have ensured the successful summer placements,” said Dr. Roopa Adyasha, Senior Manager of Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore.
“Traditional recruiters have supported us by bringing in new roles across divisions. New recruiters have come in. Other than the domain of Consulting, students have also received a large number of offers for S&M (95), General Management (81) and Finance (71),” said Anushree Jibhakate, Student Placement Representative, IIM Bangalore.
There were 144 offers made in Consulting: Accenture Strategy (24), Bain & Company (18), Boston Consulting Group (17), Kearney (15), McKinsey & Company (14), KPMG (7), PwC India (7), Deloitte USI (6), Alvarez & Marsal (5), Auctus Advisors (2), Miebach Consulting (4), GEP Consulting (4), Arthur D. Little (4), Strategy& (3) and others (14).
There were 71 offers made in the domain of Finance, Banking and Investments. Private equity firms, which made offers, included CDC Group, Gaja Capital, Multiples. Finance firms including Goldman Sachs (11), Avendus Capital (5), Citibank (5), FinIQ (5), Barclays (4), JP Morgan (3), Deutsche Bank (3), Philips Finance (3), Arpwood Capital (1), Axis Group (2), Bank of New York Mellon (2), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (1) and others (26).
There were plenty of Marketing and Sales offers (95), including P&G (7), Stepcare (7), Vinculum (5), Pidilite (4), Airtel (4), Asian Paints (4), Vodafone Idea Limited (3), Mondelez (3), Tata Sky (3), Coca Cola (3), ACT (3), Hindustan Unilever (3), Samsung (3), Saint-Gobain (3), Johnson & Johnson (2), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (2), Kimberly Clark (2), Colgate Palmolive (2), Bajaj Auto (2), Wipro Consumer Care (1), Dabur (1), AB InBev (1), Lenovo (1) and others (26).
As many as 81 Leadership Track or General Management Track offers were made by Indian business conglomerates, including TATA Consultancy Services (10), Vedanta (7), Tata Administrative Services (6), Business Forum (6), Adani (5), Unacademy (5), Aditya Birla Group (4), JSW (4), Bajaj Finserv (4), Claimbuddy (4), Machani Group (3), Marico (3), Capgemini (2), RPG Group (2), Renew Power (2), Kalpataru Power (2), and Mahindra & Mahindra (1) and others (11).
In addition, there were 93 offers in the broad domain of Information Technology (IT) and Product Management and E-commerce from companies like Amazon (31), Microsoft (7), Stepcare (7), Walmart Labs (6), Appario (6), Kimberly Clark (5), UHG (5), Amagi (4), Infoedge (4), Flipkart (3), Adobe (3), Sprinklr (2), PayU (2), Atlassian(2), and Honeywell (1) and others (5).
There were 18 offers made in the Analytics from American Express (4), Accenture Strategy (2), MCA Consulting (2), Yodlee (2), Drishya AI (2) and others (6).
There were 27 offers made in the Operations sector from Uber (7), NatWest Group (4), DEC Industries (4), Prione (3), Koo (3), and others (6).
First batch of MBA in Business Analytics wins big
The first batch of students of the PGP-BA programme at IIMB has received offers in the domains of Consulting, Data Analytics, Product Management, Business Strategy & Operations across sectors, including Management Consulting, BFSI, E-Commerce, Ed-Tech and Transportation. Consulting Companies that recruited from the programme include Accenture, Alvarez & Marsal, Boston Consulting Group, Cognizant Business Consulting, Kearney, and McKinsey & Company.
Other prominent companies which recruited from the very first batch of MBA Business Analytics included Amazon, American Express, Appario, Citibank, Cloudtail, PayU, Titan, Uber, Unacademy & Yodlee. A total of 25 companies made offers to the MBA Business Analytics students.
Tapas Ranjan Pati, Manager – Career Development Services – MBA in Business Analytics, said: “The PGP-BA cohort, alongside PGP, put up a great effort to secure offers from top companies. Many marquee recruiters offered exclusively crafted roles in Business Analytics domain. The IIMB PGP Placement Committee managed this first-of-its-kind virtual placement process seamlessly.”
Professor U. Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson of MBA in Business Analytics, said that the response from prominent companies is a show of faith in the analytics programme offered by IIMB.