More offers with dream salaries for IIM-Calcutta

KOLKATA - With more placement offers and an average salary of Rs.18.4 lakh per annum, the Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta (IIM-Calcutta) concluded the placement for students of the third batch of the Post Graduation Programme for Executives (PGPEX).

“Contrary to last year, this year the number of offers and participation of recruiters were higher. The average salary this year is Rs.18.4 lakh, compared to Rs.18 lakh last year. However, like last year the highest salary remained at Rs.35 lakh. Moreover, this year there was an international offer, compared to nothing last year,” said a press release issued by IIM-Calcutta Monday.

The recruiting giants include both Indian and global multinationals companies.

The recruiting multinational companies include McKinsey & Co., Deloitte, TCS, Hewlett-Packard, Mindtree Consulting, Amazon Consulting, Accenture and Sapient in Consulting, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Rediff.com, HCL and Infosys BPO in IT/ITES/Telecom, Opus Soft, Google (India) and Zycus in Sales and Marketing, KPIT Cummins, Wellspun Group and Siemens in Project Management/Operations and Directi Internet Solutions, Infosys, Tata International and Manipal Education Group in Strategy and Business Development.

IIM-Calcutta launched the one year full time residential programme for executives in 2006. On successful completion of the programme, participants are awarded a diploma titled Post Graduate Diploma in Management for Executives (PGPEX).