GITAM Placement 2023: Business school registers 20% increase in average salaries

NEW DELHI: The GITAM School of Business registered a 20 percent increase in average salaries during the MBA placement drives conducted this year, as per the statement from the university. As many as 43 companies participated in the GITAM placement drives for MBA students on the Bangalore campus this year, while 22 of them visited the campuses in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.

The university officials attributed the increase in hiring to the “360-degree approach” which included sessions conducted to build students' competence. These sessions also provided soft skills training, mock group-discussion (GD) sessions to encourage position body language, mock interviews to prepare students for actual interviews, resume building sessions and company-specific functional training by subject experts, the statement read.

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GITAM Placements 2023: Top recruiters

"Firms in spaces such as conglomerates, automobiles, energy, logistics, technology, telecommunications and media also made a sizable number of offers at the recently concluded placement drive for its 2023 MBA batches across all the three campuses- Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad", the official press release issued by the university read.

The top recruiters include KPMG, Deloitte, Colgate, Palmolive, Accenture, Perfetti, Asian Paints, Reliance industries, Philips domestic appliances, MRF tyres, Ernst and Young, Emami, Factset, Bosch, HDFC life, TVS and federal bank.

Dean of GITAM school of business Amit Bhadra said: "Along with quality education by world-class faculty and the best of the accreditations and affiliations, quality placement has been a strong part of GITAM's legacy. Not only is there a visible hike in the highest package, but the school is recording a constant increase in the average packages. These two must be considered as one of the key indicators while considering the quality of a B-school."