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IIMs flooded with pre-placement offers
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 02 August 2007, 19:30 IST
Kolkata: The management graduates at IIMs have already started reaping their harvest reported Business Standard. The students getting back from their three months internships are flooded with pre-placement offers (PPO). At IIM Kolkata, five students have already been offered the positions as associates in investment banks. Compared to just four in the last year the big-ticket packages are likely to go even up this time. The package is believed to be in the range of a crore. The IIMs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad are also witnessing lot of PPOs as associates from companies in the finance and consulting sector.
We are expecting the number of PPO's to grow at least by 20 percent. "Already a number of offers have been made from every area, right from investment banking and consulting to marketing and IT," says Tejaswini, placement co-ordinater at IIM Kolkata. The offers are from Morgan Stanley, Mc.Kinsey, Bain consulting, BCG to HLL,TAS and JP Morgan Chase.
While most students are wary about disclosing the pay packets, the sources say that it is better than last year. The trend towards global placements is also continuing, according to an IIMA representative.