India Hiring Resilient

Things are not bleak for business school placements in India when compared to that of US and other overseas B-schools

- BY GEORGE SKARIA

WHILE ADMISSIONS TO business schools for the MBA batch of 2025-27 are in their final phase, placements for outgoing students have moved to their last lap, with many schools concluding the process.

Some key trends around placements for this year have emerged. While the older business schools of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) of Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta, Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad and Mohali and XLRI, Jamshedpur have placed 100 per cent of their students, some of the newer IIMs and others below the top 20 have faced challenges in getting all their students placed.

Among the top 20 business schools, the highest average salary was in IIM-B at ₹35.92 lakh per annum (LPA), and the lowest was at NMIMS, Mumbai, at ₹25.13 LPA, according to the management education portal MBAUniverse. The average salaries showed a mixed trend. While there has not been any substantial increase in salaries at most business schools, the decrease in salaries in schools where they have fallen is also not much. IIMs at Rohtak, Ranchi, and Vishakhapatnam have bucked the trend.

As high as 80% of the recruitments in some of the top 50 business schools are from three sectors, namely IT Services/Global Capability Centres, Consulting, and Banking and Financial Services. The recruitment process in the previous year saw participation from a wider range of sectors, including Analytics, Product Management, FMCG, and E-commerce.