IIM Calcutta Placements 2024 - Average & Highest Package, Percentage

IIM Calcutta is a pioneer B-school in India known for imparting quality management education through its core general management programmes, seminars, live projects, and lectures from eminent faculty that have helped its students to get placed in some of the top-notch companies both domestic as well as international. The strong Placement Committee of IIM Calcutta has excelled in professionalising the Indian management scenario through various programmes and consulting activities. It acts as a perfect interface between academia and the real business world. Case studies and live sessions conducted by many industry experts help the students to create a managerial mindset bringing out the best in every student.

The IIM Calcutta placement drive is conducted in three clusters where the participating companies are grouped into cohorts which are further divided into clusters. The IIM Calcutta Placement Committee is an efficient amalgamation of the efforts of students, faculty and its own members. The average salary packages have touched an all-time high in the 2022 placement drive placing the students in some of the finest positions in the business market. IIM Calcutta maintains a 100% placement record in every sector. Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, ITC, Hindustan Unilever, Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, and Vedanta are some of the top recruiters that visit the IIM Calcutta campus every year. The mission of IIM Kolkata Placement is to develop future leaders who will be capable of managing the ever-transforming competitive environment of management.

The placement process at IIM Calcutta is outstanding with 100% success in almost every batch. It is possible only because of the strong industrial ties that the institute has and the potential of the candidates that get selected for the various programmes offered by IIM Kolkata. 

IIM Calcutta Placements 2022 witnessed a 10% rise in the total number of companies visiting the campus and a 12% rise in the number of offers made by them as compared to the placement drive of 2021. A 17% rise in the average CTC package was also noticed in the placement season 2022 in comparison to last year. More than 190 companies visited the IIM Kolkata campus grounds engaging around 479 students. 

Some of the top recruiters to give the offers were Accenture, TCS, Cognizant, Amazon, Microsoft, Wipro, Google, BCG, Deloitte, IBM, Kepler-Cannon, Hindustan Lever and many more. Candidates usually get offers for roles like Business Model Analytics, Analytics Business Consulting, Business Analytics, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Risk Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Business Intelligence,  Healthcare Analytics and many others. 

Students can check the Highlights for IIM Calcutta Placement 2022 

The sixth batch of IIM Calcutta PGDBA programme successfully completed its placement process with various organisations across industries participating with zeal for handpicking candidates for both data-driven and business-driven roles from a batch of 62 students in which two opted out to commence their own career aspirations. IIMC PGDBA Final Placement witnessed substantial growth, while average remuneration was recorded at Rs 26.35 LPA, with a 12.75% growth. The highest offer received was with the remuneration of Rs 42.50 LPA. The median CTC growth observed was 14% with a reach of Rs 28 LPA. 

The fifteenth (15th) batch of the IIM Calcutta MBAEx programme had a successful placement season with the following figures –

• Number of offers made: 87
• Average Salary: Rs 36.79 Lakhs per annum (+27.96% YoY)
• Median Salary: Rs 30.41 Lakhs per annum (+19.25% YoY)
• Highest Salary: Rs 1.37 Crore per annum (+57.25% YoY)
• Average salary increase: 52.5%

75 out of 79 students in the batch took part in the IIM Calcutta placement process, and they received a total of 87 job offers (2 students opted-out and 2 were on sabbatical). Various organisations across industries extended offers to the students which paved the way for aspirants to successfully shift their industry, roles, or functions of choice, which is more important than securing the job itself.

The top recruiters in IIM Calcutta Placement 2022 included well-known companies such as Amazon, Accenture Strategy, Avends, Flipkart, Microsoft, Wipro, Google, BCG, Deloitte, IBM, Kepler-Cannon, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., ITC, Vedanta, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Company, Tata Administrative Services, EY Parthenon Procter & Gamble and Paytm.

IIM Calcutta has completed the placement season of the current batch. The IIMC placement 2020 experienced a hike of 10% in the average salary as compared to 2019. Many students got hired by top recruiting firms. Out of all the recruiters, Consulting firms were the largest recruiters offering around 31% of the total offers made. Besides this, private equity–venture capital firms and finance-related companies offered around 17% of the total offers made. 30% of the offers were made for marketing, sales and general management roles. The salary of the top 10% and the best quartile of the batch was averaged at an all-time high of 54.5 lakh and 41.8 lakh, respectively.

Major Highlights of IIM Calcutta Final Placement 2020

Some of the major highlights of IIM Calcutta final placements 2020 are in the table below.

IIM Calcutta PGDBA Placement Report 2018-20

The average placement package for 2018-20 placement season of IIM Calcutta was Rs 26.31 lakh per annum which was higher than the average package of the 2017-19 year. Around 57 per cent of the total offers were made from the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) sector. Besides this, 27 per cent were made from Consulting and 9% each from E-Commerce and IT/Software. 

Major Highlights of IIM, Calcutta PGDBA Placement 2018-20

Some of the major highlights of IIM Calcutta final placements 2018-20 are as follows

IIM Calcutta has completed the placement process for the PGP batch 2017-19. The 2019 graduating batch of IIM Calcutta recorded 100% placements, as all the 441 students who took part in placements bagged job offers from top companies. IIM Calcutta has achieved a milestone by completing the placement process for the 2019 PGP graduating batch in just one day.

A total number of 123 companies from diverse sectors participated in the placement process of IIM Calcutta and made 501 job offers. The number of job offers made by these companies is higher than the number of students participating in placements.

The average salary offered by these companies was Rs. 24.96 lakh per annum, while the median salary offered was Rs. 23.5 lakh per annum.

Sector Wise Placement Percentage and Major Recruiters

The sector-wise placement percentage at IIM Calcutta placements 2019 is as follows –

IIM Calcutta has successfully completed the placement process for the batch of 2016-18 within a span of just two days. The premier management institute has been successful in recording 100% placements for the batch of 2016-18.

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) has successfully concluded its summer internship placement process with various organisations across industries participating in the same. IIM Calcutta has recorded a 100% placement record with all 480 students of the class getting internship.

Highlights of IIMC Calcutta Summer Placement 2019

•  The highest monthly stipend was recorded at Rs.1,72,000
• The average monthly stipend rose to Rs. 1,31,087 during IIM Calcutta Summer Internship, witnessing a growth of 15.4% as compared to last year
• The median monthly stipend surpassed last year's figure by 12.5% and reached Rs. 1,25,000. 
• Top firms focusing on analytics turned out to be the most preferred recruiters.
• All 480 students of the class got an internship during a summer placement in 2019.
• The number of participating firms in IIM Calcutta placements grew by 13.3%.
• Some of the first time recruiters include Puma, Emami, Atha Group and others.
• Finance and Consulting firms accounted for 43.2 percent of the total offers during summer placement.

Once again, IIM Calcutta has recorded 100% summer placements. The 55^th PGDM batch of IIM Calcutta (2018-20) showed outstanding performance in summer placements. The summer placement process of IIM Calcutta 2018-19 went on for two days, and almost 458 students opted for summer internship this year. Summer internship is mandatory in PGDM curriculum of IIM Calcutta. The mentoring from second-year students helped the first-year PGDM batch to bag summer internships. More details are elaborated below.

Banking and Financial Services emerged as the top recruiter this year with almost 26% of internship offers. Among various companies in the finance domain, Citi Bank offered a maximum number of internships. The other major recruiters in the BFSI domain are –

• Goldman Sachs
• Credit Sussie
• Barclays
• Bank of America

On the other hand, consulting domain continued to dominate the summer placement process. Various companies that fall under consulting domain made almost 22% of internship offers. Boston Consulting Group was the largest recruiter in this domain. The other major recruiters in this domain were –

• Alvarez & Marshal
• Bain & Co
• McKinsey & Co

FMCG domain was the other major recruiter in IIM Calcutta summer placements 2018. AB InBev was the largest recruiter in this domain. The other major recruiters were –

• Jubilant Foodworks
• Nestle
• Dabur
• General Mills
• Coca-Cola
• Johnson & Johnson
• Colgate Palmolive
• RB
• ITC
• Procter & Gamble
• Hindustan Unilever Limited

The following are some of the companies that offered leadership roles to students –

• JSW
• RJ-Sanjiv Goenka Group
• RPG
• Reliance
• Mahindra & Mahindra
• Tata Administrative Services
• Aditya Birla Group

Aditya Birla Group offered a maximum number of internship offers in this domain.

Product Management, E-Commerce & Operations, made almost 15% of internship offers. Some of the top recruiters in this domain were –

• Swiggy
• OLX
• Flipkart
• Cloudtail
• Uber
• Amazon
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

Among Technology firms, Capgemini, Tata Consultancy Services, and Microsoft dominated with the maximum number of internship offers.

This year, new recruiters made 10% of internship offers such as –

• Stryker
• Salesforce
• Phone Pe
• Kimberly Clark
• Grofers
• Byju’s
• ADmyBrand
• Boehringer Ingelheim

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) recorded a 100% summer placement for the 2019 batch in just two days.180 firms offered roles across diverse sectors.

Highlights of the summer placement drive:

41% of the students were offered roles in Finance and Consulting sectors.

In Finance sector, Goldman Sachs made the highest number of offers

As many as 188 offers were made by different companies to the students of 2019

In the general management, operations and marketing categories, Coke, Uber and Aditya Birla Group emerged as top recruiters. NITI Aayog, the prime think tank of the government of India also took part in the summer placements this year (for the first time) and recruited five students. Seven investment-banking firms and five private equity firms were also among those who participated in the summer placements.