The students of Indian School of Business (ISB) have secured record number job offers in the campus placements programme this year.
The premier business school which has campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali has 812 students in its flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) these students have been given 1,093 job offers, according to a release issued here on Thursday.
The pay packages, which have been not been disclosed, were also ‘higher’ this year.
Consulting firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, EY, Deloitte and KPMG accounts for 19 per cent of the total offers.
Technology and technology services firms including Microsoft, Apple, Philips, HCL, Tech Mahindra and Directi constitute 11 per cent of the total offers. This was followed by e-commerce companies such as Amazon and Flipkart which made 109 offers constituting 10 percent of the total offers to date.
In a significant first, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has made offers to 11 students who will become Chief Minister’s Fellows. They will support the emerging state on strategic initiatives and implementation of policies that will contribute to its ambitious vision to emerge a front running state in the country and as a major investment destination.
“A total of 92 offers for senior leadership roles and global leadership programmes were made. These include several CXO level positions. Several of these included offers made to women students as well,” ISB said.
Axis Bank alone, which runs its ‘Women Leadership Programme’ at ISB, has made 30 offers, up from 18 last year. Around 20 international companies have made 73 offers so far.
The start-ups competed with established recruiters and picked up seven per cent of the class across sectors like technology, telecom, E-Commerce, transportation and education with senior management roles on offer.