IIM Lucknow achieves 100 percent Placements

Updated on: Wednesday, October 21, 2015

iimlBreaking its own record, Indian Institute of Management IIM Lucknow has achieved a cent per cent summer placements this year in just four days. The recruitment drive saw participation from 157 domestic and international recruiters.

"We have achieved 100 per cent summer placements for 31st batch of 457 students in a record time of four days, breaking our own record," an IIM Lucknow release issued in Lucknow said. The participation of these firms also marked the ascent of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, finance and consulting roles in the country, it said.

Big giants like flipcart, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, Cipla, ICICI bank, P&G, Amazon, Reliance Industries, Cognizant, McKinsey, HUL, HSBC, BCG, ABG and American Express are one of the main recruiters in the campus.

The record breaking placement trend is not new at IIM Lucknow. Last year also the institute marked cent percent placements for the graduating batch of 2014.

The other premier institute for engineering, Indian Institute of technology IIT is not lagging behind. The pre-placement offers by Amazon, Samsung and Facebook have caught eyeballs of people by offering a whopping amount of Rs 1 to 1.5 crores to IIT graduates. IIT Kharagpur witnessed 55 per cent rise in PPOs with 142 offers as compared to 92 last year. The rise in PPOs is mainly due to some banking and financial companies making a come back after a gap of a year or two which includes JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Barclays at Madras and Kharagpur.

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