As many as 118 students were placed within the placement week and the rest were recruited soon after, while four students chose to pursue alternative opportunities of entrepreneurship.
As many as 45 recruiting companies participated this year.
There has been a considerable increase in the salary package given this year. The highest offer has been Rs 13.5 Lakhs (an increase of about 45 per cent over last year’s highest), median salary of Rs 8 Lakhs and lowest salary of Rs 5.9 Lakhs (an increase of about 50 per cent over last year’s lowest). Moreover, there has been a rise in the acceptance of profiles in the consulting sector.
Although IT/ITES and Banking and Financial Services formed the sectors of preference for more than half of the batch, there were equally a large number of students opting for other sectors such as Consulting, FMCG, Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Services.
Regular recruiters including Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Wipro Group, Deloitte, KPMG, Manipal Group, UB Group, Citi Group, and Titan Industries were part of the recruitment while M/s. Avalon Consulting, IMRB, J.P. Morgan, Verity, ACG, CRISIL were among the 15 new firms that took part in the recruitment process for the first time.