Global economic woes notwithstanding, the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, had no problems with student placements.
The B-School announced 100 per cent placements this year. Also, the average domestic salary offered to the students at FMS saw an increase of 6.1 per cent over the previous year at Rs 16.34 lakh a year.
More than 100 companies across sectors visited the FMS campus for placements of the largest-ever batch of 227 students. Ninety six companies made final offers. Despite the uncertain economic situation, 26 per cent of the batch chose a career in finance across functions like investment banking, corporate finance and risk management, among others.
Citibank and Deutsche Bank led the race in this segment with six offers each. American Express, Axis Bank, Bank of America, HSBC, ICICI Bank and ING Vysya Bank also recruited in good numbers. Consulting companies, such as Aon Hewitt, Bristlecone, Accenture Management Consulting, Corporate Executive Board, Deloitte (both India and US strategy and operations), Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, picked up more than one-fifth of the students.
However, more than 40 per cent of the students were hired to serve in the marketing domain.
Media and manufacturing sector companies formed the tail-end among recruiters and picked up three per cent and two per cent of the students, respectively.
Jindal Steel and Power, Mahindra & Mahindra, Punj Lloyd and RPG were some of the other big corporate houses which picked up students from FMS.