IIM Bangalore Placement 2017: Boston, Accenture, Goldman Sachs top recruiters; 450 offers to 411 students

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
March 10, 2017
IIM Bangalore Placement 2017 is over with 160 recruiters making 450 placement offers to 411 participating students getting more than 200 job profiles
Boston Consulting has emerged as the top recruiter with 20 offers followed by Goldman Sachs and Accenture making 14 offers each

IIM Bangalore Placement 2017 is over with 160 recruiters making 450 placement offers to 411 participating students with more than 200 job profiles. Boston Consulting has emerged as the top recruiter with 20 offers followed by Goldman Sachs and Accenture making 14 offers each.

10 students preferred to opt out of the placement process to pursue Entrepreneurship and other ventures. Recruiters made 162 Pre Placement Offers to the IIM Bangalore students. However, students have accepted only 133 PPOs.

The final Placement 2017 at IIM Bangalore began on March 1 as scheduled and was over before March 4. With more than 160 companies participating and making more than 450 offers across 200 job profiles, IIM Bangalore has successfully concluded the final placement 2017 for the PGP 2015-17 class with 100% placement.

Key Trends in placement 2017
This year the placement process witnessed the participation of 411 eligible students. 10 students opted out of the Placement Process.

160 recruiters with 450 offers
Number of recruiters in final placement 2017 at IIM Bangalore has increased to 160+. More than 450 offers across 200 profiles were made to 411 students participating in the placement process 2017.

162 PPOs
Pre Placement Offers extended to the students before the start of the Final Placements based on their performance during the Summer Internship have increased to 162 in Placement 2017 from 139 in 2016.

High Lateral Placement
The Lateral Placement season for candidates with more than 22 months of work experience saw a total of 139 offers being made by firms in varied domains like Consulting, Business Leadership, Product Management, Operations, Category Management, and General Management. Out of them 116 offers were accepted.

15 grab International Placement
15 students were offered international placements from various firms for global locations.

25% New Recruiters
IIM Bangalore placement 2017 witnessed around 25% first time recruiters. New recruiters included Sprinklr with 6 offers;  Sterlite Power, BNY Mellon, Power Finance, Vedanta, Stovekraft, Hay Group, Gulf Talent, Tolaram, Intellipaat, Indian Oil, Ambuja Cement, Amplus Solar, Saint Gobain, Pernod Ricard, Cello and Danaher among others.

Top Recruiters
IIM Bangalore played host to most big brands of National and International Repute. Boston Consulting emerged as the top recruiter making 20 offers followed by Goldman Sachs, Accenture making 14 offers.

Consulting: the biggest recruiting sector
More than 30% of the entire batch received offers in the consulting sector. In the Consulting domain, The Boston Consulting Group was the top recruiter with 20 offers. Following it were McKinsey & Co with 13 offers; Bain & Company-10 offers; EXL Consulting-10 offers; Deloitte-10 offers. AT Kearney made 9 offers.

Other recruiters in Consulting domain included Alvarez & Marsal, Roland Berger and Strategy&, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nomura Research Institute, PwC Diamond Consulting and Ernst & Young.

Conglomerates
Conglomerates such as Aditya Birla Group made 10 offers. Other top recruiters include Tata Administrative Services (TAS), Reliance Industries Ltd, Mahindra Group, Jindal,  CK Birla, RPG, Wipro among others.

Banking & Finance
A host of Indian and International Banks and financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs with 14 offers, Citibank, ICICI Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Yes Bank, Deutsche Bank, DBS, Standard Chartered, Visa, Axis Bank, JM Financial, Fullerton, Societe Genrale, Aviva and CRISIL among others emerged as top recruiters at IIM Bangalore Placement 2017

Sales & Marketing
Many students also chose to go to Sales and Marketing functions, and were extended offers by major consumer goods and services firms. The major recruiters in this category were Anheuser-Busch Inbev  with 8 offers. Other top recruiters included Asian Paints, Himalaya , Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, Marico, Procter & Gamble among others. International retail chain from Middle East M.H. Alshaya also recruited 4 students.

Technology
Prominent recruiters in the technology space included Capgemini, IBM, Cognizant,Samsung, Tech Mahindra, Microsoft, WNS, Directi, Sterlite Technologies, Microland, Sasken, UnitedHealth Group, Schneider Electric, Phillips, Robert Bosch, Honeywell, Sutherland Global among others recruited from the campus.

E-commerce: Lost prominence
The E-Commerce space saw very less presence. While Amazon was the top recruiter with 12 offers, other recruiters included Ola Cabs, Paytm, Myntra, Cloudtail, Swiggy and Uber

IIM Bangalore is an autonomous, standalone management school and not part of any university. It was established in 1973 by the Government of India through the creation of an IIMB Society which is the legal entity behind the institution. The school works within the national policy guidelines established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It is amongst the top management schools in India and Asia according to several rankings. MBAUniverse.com has ranked IIM Bangalore among top 3 B schools in the country. In 2013, IIMB was re-accredited by European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

IIMB is the first B-School in Asia to sign an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) to distribute faculty teaching cases. IIMB has also entered into a partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business to co-brand and distribute faculty-authored cases globally.

The industry reinstated its faith in IIM Bangalore as past recruiters along with more new recruiters took part in the placement process 2017. The unique feature in the process was the diversity of profiles offered to the students which gave them a good choice in terms of industry and the role.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more updates on IIM Bangalore 

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