The comprehensive report analyses final placement trends from Top 20 B-schools including all IIMs, ISB, XLRI, MDI, JBIMS and others. The report estimates that across these B-schools, the average salary offered has increased by a heft 20-22%.
Highlighting the finding of the report, India's leading business daily Economic Times ran a headline on April 8: "No slowdown impact on B-school placements". Quoting the report findings, Economic Times said, "There are no signs of global slowdown and a grim stock market situation on the recently concluded B-school placements in India. Instead, a comprehensive post-placement analysis by a management portal MBAUnivese.com highlights interesting trends and attitudinal shift amongst students that could gain momentum in coming years."
Online edition of leading international business magazine Businessweek too quoted from the MBAUniverse.com MBA Placement Report. In a story titled 'In India, MBAs remain in demand' (published on April 13), Businessweek said: "While American business school students worry about jon offeres being yanked and salaries and starting bonuses shrinking, their counterparts at top Indian business schools are having what looks to be their best recruiting year ever, according to a report. The job placement figures this year at 20 of India's top management schools—including six Indian Institute of Management campuses (IIMs)—"paints a rosy picture of job prospects for top management graduates," according to the 2008 MBA Placement Report released Apr. 7 by MBA Universe, an India-based Web site about business schools." Click on the link to read the full story on http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/apr2008/bs20080413_466024.htm? chan=bschools_bschool+index+page_top+stories
One of the key findings from the placement data analysed by MBAUniverse.com is that inspite of global slowdown and topsy-turvy Indian stock markets, Financial sector remains the preferred choice across elite B-schools. Inspite of sub-prime crises, the confidence of foreign finance majors is still intact – there is no apparent impact on Indian MBA recruitments. On their part, MBAs too aren't dissuaded by somewhat negative sentiments, and believe that financial markets are great place to jumpstart their careers.
The other big trend, according to MBAUniverse.com MBA Placement Report 2008, is that Indian management graduates are voting in favour of job-profiles, in comparison to salary packages. All credits to the HR leadership in India Inc, management graduates believe that their job profiles are improving and becoming richer and challenging, and that's a big motivating factor.
There are several other interesting trends and analysis emerging from the placement report. Click on the links below for highlights from the report.
India's leading management portal MBAUniverse.com surveyed the Placement Results at 20 leading management institutes to prepare its MBA Placement Report 2008. The institutes that are part of this analysis include six IIMs, Indian School of Business (ISB), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Business schools, Xavier Labour and Relations Institute, Jamshedpur (XLRI), Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai and other top schools.
