Krea University's IFMR GSB students bag placements with highest salary at Rs 18 lakh per annum

NEW DELHI: Students of the IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB) at Krea University has secured placements with the highest salary offered to be Rs 18 lakh per annum. According to the university, the average salaries offered during this year’s placement process increased more than 10 percent across the top 25 percent, 50 percent and overall.

As per a statement released by Krea University, 165 out of the 175 students who participated in the placement process have been offered job roles by various consulting, finance and technology companies. The rest of them were hired for job roles in strategy, marketing and operations.

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Krea university claims that its students have been hired for new-age roles in “valuation consulting, risk and financial advisory, digital consulting, financial planning and analysis, risk consulting and modelling, business analysis and management consulting.”

Out of the 78 recruiters that participated in the Krea University placement process, 34 were new recruiters. Various companies such as Barclays, EY, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Accenture, CRISIL, Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Oracle, HCL Technologies, Philips, Tata International and Northern Arc, among others offered job opportunities to Krea University students.

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“With the pandemic accelerating the shift to digital transformation, IFMR GSB’s focus on embedding data-science across all subjects attracted a large canvas of new recruiters to the campus. While the average salaries have grown across bands, it’s heartening to note that students are pivoting more to exciting roles that provide them long-term career growth than merely be fixated on compensation and benefits,” said professor Lakshmi Kumar, dean of IFMR GSB at Krea University.