Pune based FLAME University consistently ensures that its MBA program continues to have deep industry engagement. As such the effective approaches and strategies adopted by the University also yield desired result in the summer and final placements year after year.
Given the academic rigour and close industry engagement, the FLAME MBA graduates get good placements opportunities at top companies. Sharing the placement track record at FLAME, Dr Devi Singh says “More than seventy companies participated in our placement process last year. On average our students had five interview opportunities and the highest salary was Rs. 28 lakhs and median salary was Rs. 5.3 lakhs. More importantly, some of our students have become entrepreneurs and job creators and are running unique enterprises.”
FLAME: Beating the slowdown
Although economic conditions in India and worldwide have started to improve, but they continue to remain challenging. Even in such a challenging environment, recruiters at FLAME continue to have faith in curriculum, faculty and selection process, which attracts the best minds to FLAME.
Key Placement trends
MBA Placement 2016 at FLAME University is showing rising trend in job market with more than 90% of the graduating students seeking placements having already received lucrative job offers. More than 60 recruiters have already participated in placement 2016 at FLAME University. The average salary package in placement 2016 comes to Rs.5.3 lakhs while the highest pay package has gone many times higher.
Top Recruiters are from the Financial Services, IT, E-commerce, FMCG and other sectors.
Unique Placement process
FLAME University follows unique placement process. FLAME's Placement Services Centre strives to facilitate students in finding recruiters that fit their skill set. According to the FLAME University ‘We help students define their career goals and try to fulfill their ambitions by providing them with the best available employment resources. Tools such as resume and interviewing workshops, career fairs, career counseling, and presentations are used extensively’.
Highest Salary-Rs.27.67 lakhs; average Rs.5.30 lakhs
Releasing the salary data for placement after verification FLAME University has shared that the highest salary offered during last year placement was Rs.27.67 lakhs while the average salary stood at Rs.5.30 lakhs.
Sharing the Placement statistics FLAME University has informed ‘We are proud to announce that most of our postgraduate graduating class of 2015 seeking placement has been placed across companies, sectors and industries. Our students on average had 5 interview opportunities. 70 companies participated in our placement process. Companies recruited our students across verticals and offered roles in the areas of equity research, analytics, client servicing, marketing, relationship management, business development, banking, consultancy, retail operations, organizational development, human resources, industrial relations, e-commerce, etc’
BFSI: Top recruiting sector
Banking, Financial Services & Insurance was the biggest recruiting sector with 27.3% offers followed by IT/ITES with 13.6% recruitment and manufacturing with 12.1% offers. Media & Advt recruited 9.1% of the batch; consulting 7.6%; e-commerce and healthcare 4.5% each; education, FMCG, logistics and retail with 3% recruitment each while 9.1% offers came for all other sectors.
Domain-wise Placement
Marketing emerged as the highest recruiting domain with 50% offers followed by finance with 30.3% offers. Human Resource accounted for 10.6% offers while operations remained with 9.1% placement offers.
Top recruiters at FLAME
Top recruiters at FLAME include Aditya Birla, Godrej Applicances, Reliance Capital, HDFC Bank, S G Analytics, Axis Bank, Info Edge, Bajaj Electricals, ITC, Blue Dart, Kotak Bank, Supreme industries, TCS-BPS, Tech Mahindra, Vedanta, ZEE, Zomato among others.
FLAME: Care for quality placement
It’s not just the final placements that are important in judging the quality of placements in an MBA program. Often, quality of summer placements leads to a lot of good final placements. Summers also help current students to apply the skills they learn in the first year and have better learning in the final year. A such, FLAME takes its summer placements very seriously.
Industry engagement making students industry ready
It is the strategy of integrating industry with its curriculum and studies at FLAME University’s MBA which is yielding results.
Industry stalwarts like Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC; Narayana Murthy, Co-founder, Infosys; Dilip Shanghvi, Founder, Sun Pharamaceuticals; Uday Kotak, MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank; K. V. Kamath, Former MD, ICICI Bank; V. G. Siddhartha, Founder, Café Coffee Day; Aditya Puri, MD, HDFC Bank; Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Essel Group; and Shikha Sharma, MD, Axis Bank; Rajeev Dubey, President, Mahindra & Mahindra; Pranay Chulet, Co-founder and CEO, Quikr amongst many others have interacted with the students of FLAME recently and have shared their rich perspectives.
Pune based FLAME University was established as a State Private University in 2015 under an act passed by the Government of Maharashtra. The University offers MBA programs with specializations in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, human resources and operations. Online admission application process for MBA 2016-18 at FLAME University is open. Interested candidates can register on FLAME University’s application portal to apply online. The university accepts CAT 2015, XAT 2016, MAT 2015-2016, CMAT 2016, MH-CET 2016 and GMAT scores.
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