XLRI Jamshedpur is ranked higher than most of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). Xavier School of Management is India's leading private school for management education. This is the reason that probably around 1 lakh candidates register for XAT to explore admission opportunities in XLRI.

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The institute was founded in 1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J. in the ‘steel city’ of Jamshedpur. Over the last six decades, it has grown into a top-ranking business school with a wide portfolio of educational programs. Its alumni are spread around the globe and have demonstrated responsible business leadership in their organizations. XLRI strives to contribute its mite to the professional growth and management of innumerable organizations that serve the public good in a variety of sectors.

 XLRI is the top ranked school for Human Resource education not only in the country, but considered as one of the finest in Asia-Pacific. XLRI’s Business Management programme too is counted amongst the top 5 in the country.

An insight to XLRI Jamshedpur reveals about its full time Programme, about its valuable faculty resource, latest placements of 2014, exclusive Ranking by MBAUniverse.com and major Ranking agencies, its alumni base. All this will help and guide the MBA Aspirants to know about the college and give their best shot in XAT 2015 to get selected for this dream B School.

USP’s of XLRI:

1) Accredited by AACSB
2) Places 100% of the batch in 3.5 days.
3) Median salary Rs 16.25 lakhs-plus
4) Human Resources, ranked #1 in India for the last 40 years

Management Programmes:

XLRI offers six PGDM programmes and the admission to them will be through XAT 2015 for which registration will remain open till November 22, 2014.  Candidates who aspire to join the  business environment and wish to become future business managers may apply and register for XAT 2015 before the last date of XAT 2015 registration. XAT is to be conducted on Janurary 4, 2015 in a single session.

Human Resource Management (HRM)

XLRI’s much acclaimed and respected HRM programme trains future human resource managers to shape winning organizations. Focusing primarily on employee relations, human management systems and practices, legal framework, interpersonal and leadership skills the HRM course offers a holistic formation including functional area

Business Management (BM)

Shaping future business leaders as responsible and highly skilled managers is the thrust of the BM programme. The rigorous training prepares value-based managers with an integrated approach to decision-making. Drawing in on functional disciplines such as Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Marketing, Production & Operations Management and Strategic Management programme trains enterprising managers for a sustainable future.

Leadership at XLRI Jamshedpur:

In the words of Abrahim E SJ, the director of XLRI : ‘XLRI with its single vision of Magis, i.e., pursuit of excellence, focuses on three areas: academic excellence, personal values and social concern. XLRI spares no effort to make its curriculum world-class and deliver it in the most effective manner. It constantly scans the developments in business and in society and tries to proact to meet the challenges.’

Its world-class faculty with its commitment and deep sense of service delivers the curriculum very effectively. XLRI tries its best to recruit the best faculty, induct them properly and help them to imbibe Excel culture and value and serve the students and industry with great dedication. They are also deeply involved in research and consultancy. Their involvement in industry makes their teaching very relevant and current.

XLRI boasts one of the best student faculty ratio among Indian B-schools, which is boosted by good number of visiting and guest faculties.

No. of permanent faculty: 74
Visiting Faculty:18
Total batch size:360 for (BM/HRM)

XLRI Fees structure:
The fees of its 2 year full time BM and HRM Program are around 16 lakhs which do not include boarding and lodging.

Placements 2014 at XLRI:
Placement at XLRI Jamshedpur was completed in a record time of less than 4 days in 2014 with probably the shortest ever recruitment season in the institute.
The placement 2014 reflected an upward swing in recruitment with more recruiters offering higher placement packages and probably fearing lest the students seeking placement opt out of placement process, companies competed among themselves in offer of more jobs.

Key Trends in placement 2014
XLRI has a consistent record of 100% placement. The placement season 2014 was no exception to the feat. Entire placement 2014 process at XLRI was completed in three and a half day.

There were 241 students seeking placement 2014 out of the batch of 245 students while 233 students were available for placement in 2013. All the 241 students seeking placement got suitable offers and the process was over in less than 4 days in the first week of February 2014.

Salary
Average Domestic salary: Rs 16.48 lakhs
Median Domestic salary: Rs 15.5 lakhs
Highest Domestic salary: Rs 40 lakhs
Highest International salary: USD 150,000

Top Recruiters at XLRI
Out of 103 recruiters, maximum number of 12 offers was made by ITC which emerged as the top recruiter at XLRI Jamshedpur. Coming next in the row was ICICI with 10 offers. Axis Bank occupied third position with 8 offers in placement 2014 at XLRI.
Apart from the above three top recruiters there were other companies that made number of offers in placement 2014 at XLRI. Major recruiters included Airtel, Standard Chartered, Aditya Birla, Mckinsey, Deutche Bank, CRISIL, BNP Paribas, Wipro, Asian Paints, Kraft, BCG, Dr. Reddy's, Tata Steel, J P Morgan

Rankings:

XLRI Ranked 4th in 2013 by MBAUniverse.com
XLRI ranked 3rd in 2013 by Outlook
XLRI ranked 2nd in 2013 by Business World
XLRI ranked 3rd in 2013 by India Today

Facilities:
The institution is one amongst the top in the country with a sprawling campus and modern infrastructure facilities.

Green Campus
The institute has a sprawling campus located in Jamshedpur with the scenic setting of the Dalma Hills in the North and the Tata Iron & Steel Company in the South.

IT Infrastructure:
The computing resources at XLRI include latest servers and workstations, a state-of-the-art campus network and 90 MBPS raw bandwidth WAN connectivity. There are high-end servers, which host the XLRI web page, Mail and SNTP server, Oracle, Lotus notes, SAS, DB2 and other software.
Apart from value added learning of different packages, access to various database, electronic journal and software, XLRI is providing Web hosted SAP solution for hands on ERP through University Alliance programme.

Auditorium:
The campus has two state-of-the-art auditoriums, both fully air-conditioned. The Small Auditorium has a seating capacity for about 150 people. This auditorium plays host to internal student events, guest lectures and seminars, and the famed XLRI Student General Body Meetings.
The Tata Auditorium, the bigger of the two has a capacity for about 1,000 people

Sports:
Sports are taken seriously at XLRI. The fields/courts on campus include Badminton, Basket Ball, Cricket, Football, Tennis and Volley Ball. There is a multi gymnasium located in the building.

Hostels:
Hostel facilities at XLRI, provided for students of the residential programs, consist of the four hostel blocks with more than 400 rooms in total. Every hostel room has access points linking it to the campus-wide network and the various network resources and services.

Behavioural Lab:
Established in 1949, XLRI School of Business Management and Human Resources, attracts some of the best talent from all over the country. It has established a niche for itself as a premier institution in the country, apart from being the oldest B-School in the country, and so perhaps a natural pioneer of sorts. XLRI broke new ground with the concept of a Marketing Research Fair as early as 1979 with MAXI Fair, and has been imitated widely in Colleges across India. That legacy of innovation lives on. Then it was MAXI Fair, now it is Behavioral labs.

Notable alumni:
Pull up your socks all XAT aspirants! Once you become an XLer, you become a part of the rich alumni network of XLRI. Being the oldest B-school of India, the XLRI alumni network has deep penetration in the industry. XLers enjoy coveted positions in almost all the major companies, which means the HR Leadership in almost all the companies operating in India has XLers. Every year XLRI hosts Alumni Homecoming and Silver Jubilee celebrations (for the batch graduated 25 years ago). When the current batches get a chance to connect with the alumni, it becomes a lifetime experience.

Some of the Notable alumnus of XLRI are:

1) B. Muthuraman, Vice-Chairman, Tata Steel Ltd.
2) Bijou Kurien, President, Reliance Retail
3) Vineet Nayar, Vice-Chairman & Joint managing director, HCL Technologies Ltd
4) S V Nathan, Director RHRD, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
5) Madhavi Lall, Regional Head of HR, India & South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank

XLRI has developed its own unique culture. As they say nothing comes for free in this world to be a part of XLRI you need to be among the few chosen ones and for that you need to check all your skills as it is not an easy task. So in the end be positive, prepare well and go get grab the opportunity.

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