ISB average placement salary up by 124 per cent

Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, December 3

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has set new benchmarks in placements with the highest number of offers to its graduating students.

The annual placement salary has increased by 124 per cent over the last year and averages at around Rs 26.15 lakh. On the first day of campus placements, students received 1,383 offers.

Prof Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, ISB, said, “ISB was established with a vision to create future leaders for India and the world. Companies betting big on India continue to choose ISB as their preferred partner for meeting their talent requirements. The diversity and experience of the PGP class are the main draws for recruiters.”

Some 231 companies, including 65 first-time recruiters hired from ISB this year. The ISB today announced an interim progress update on the ongoing placements for the Class of 2020 of the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP).

The School saw hiring from recruiters spanning a wide spectrum of industries such as Consulting, IT/ITES/Technology, E-Commerce, BFSI, FMCG/Retail, Healthcare, Education, Media and Entertainment, Real Estate and Infrastructure, and Global Capability Centres.

With several students having prior international experience, international recruiters, including Apple (South Asia), Deloitte Middle East, EY Parthenon and Landmark Group, continued to hire from ISB for senior management positions. The hiring of women students also saw an upsurge with Axis Bank, along with a host of other companies hiring for leadership roles in good numbers.

The PGP class of 2020, at 39 per cent, has the largest-ever representation of women

The ISB’s Post Graduate Programme has been ranked number 24 in the FT Global MBA Rankings 2019 and number 7 in the Forbes Best Business School Rankings 2019.