IIM Kozhikode placement records Rs 69.3 lakh per annum highest salary offer

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) has witnessed the final placement process for the MBA in business leadership programme with the highest salary offered to be Rs 69.3 lakh per annum. IIM Kozhikode students grabbed offers with an average salary of Rs 29 lakh per annum, which marks an increase of 20.1 percent compared to the previous year placements, claims IIMK. The median salary secured by the IIMK students is Rs 25 lakh per annum.

The IIM Kozhikode placement process for the MBA in business leadership witnessed participation from 52 companies. The students were offered about 62 job opportunities by these companies, among which one was an international offer. Female students secured an average salary of Rs 30.41 lakh per annum.

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Among the 62 offers, about 42 percent came from the consulting sector with recruiters like Accenture Strategy, Accenture Technology, Bain and Company, IBM consulting, Cognizant, Infosys consulting, The Math Company, and Zinnov making the offers.Around 22 percent of the offers came from the information technology and analytics sector. Publicis Sapient , Searce, Gramener , Reliance Jio, HashedIn, Quantiphi, Visualise AI among others were the top recruiters from this sector.

More than 25 percent of the offers were made for the roles of general management and operations, while 7 percent of the were offered for the sales and marketing roles and 3 percent for finance roles.

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“This diverse offering, for a second time running, has proved that IIM Kozhikode’s mission to nurture young professionals with experience into potential business leaders, is on a sound academic and industry footing. The success speaks volumes of their competencies among competition. We are confident that these students will leave an indelible mark in the professional world. The diverse talent pool, support of IIMK’s strong alumni base, trust of the recruitment partners who showed belief in this programme and the legacy of IIM Kozhikode, were factors that stood strong by us and supported the successful process,” said Debashis Chatterjee, director of IIM Kozhikode.