IIT Kanpur Placements: 100% MBA students placed; 61 offers by 35 companies

NEW DELHI: 100% MBA students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur students were placed in placements conducted for outgoing batch 2020-22. 55 MBA students received a total of 61 offers from 35 companies along with 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs).

IIT Kanpur recorded a 1:9 average fees to CTC ratio. The MBA Programme also recorded a year-over-year (YoY) average CTC growth of 22.54%, breaking all their previous records.

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37% of the batch got placed in the analytics domain, 24% in IT or consulting, 20% in marketing, 11% in finance and 8% in operations respectively.

Recruiters from various sectors participated in the placement drive including Accenture Strategy, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Axtria, Tiger Analytics, Juspay, IBM, Wells Fargo, Flipkart, Deloitte, Mastercard, Infosys, Dell, Berger, Digit, and so on. Some of the key roles offered to the students were Technology Consultant, Product Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Manager, Associate Solution Advisor, Senior Data Analyst, etc.

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Abhay Karandikar, Director, IIT Kanpur said, “Our MBA Programme under the IME Department has been a pioneer in keeping up with the trends of the industry and in nurturing future leaders for the country. Our 2021 Placement Phase I had been very uplifting for the institute across sectors as we saw trust of recruiters pouring in terms of the exponential numbers we recorded. With the MBA Programme scoring a century, it just adds a feather on the cap. I congratulate the whole coordinating team along with the students and faculties for their relentless efforts in making this possible.”

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The MBA Programme was incorporated into the IIT Kanpur eco-system in 2001 under the Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) Department. MBA IIT Kanpur was ranked 16th in the NIRF India Rankings 2021 for the management category. Over the years, IIT Kanpur’s MBA graduates have joined the posts of civil services, and companies like Barclays, Tata Motors, Nomura, Amazon, CRISIL, Mu-Sigma, McKinsey, Reuters, HSBC, etc., said an official statement.