The lateral offers have increased by 23 per cent this year at IIM Lucknow for the batch of PGP 2015. The B-school received about 163 lateral offers from the higher entry placement process (HEPP) this year, the highest ever at the campus. HEPP is offered to students who come with more than three years of prior experience to study at the B-school. The number of Pre-Placement Offers (PPO) stood at 93. 

A total of 207 offers were made during the final placements, taking the offers tally at 463. These offers were made by 144 recruiters to a batch of 453 students, out of which 43 were recruiting from the B-school for the first time.

Some of the companies that recruited in high numbers at the IIM-L campus were ABG, Accenture Management Consulting, Amazon, Barclays, BCG, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, HDFC Bank, KPMG, McKinsey, Reliance Industries, Samsung, Snapdeal and Star TV.

About 25 per cent of the batch was offered roles in sales & marketing, 22 per cent received offers from the finance domain, 21 per cent offers came from consulting. Around 15 per cent, 10 per cent, and 7 per cent offers were made by e-Commerce, systems/IT, and general management domains respectively. 

IIM-L students were offered diverse roles in the finance domain this year. The rest of the offers came from domains such as market research, analytics, business development, social media marketing and HR among others.

IIM-L has the largest graduating batch among other IIMs.

comment COMMENT NOW