FMS final placement 2014-16; Sales and marketing dominate

FMS concluded the final placement for the batch of 2014-16. The entire placement process was divided onto two parts. The first part took place in December 2015, where students who had more than 18 months of work experience before enrolling for MBA were a part of the drive. Placement of the remaining students was done in January 2016.

 

Check IIM Ahmedabad final placement 2016 cluster-wise report here.

The batch size was 223, out of which 210 were a part of the placement process. 13 students opted out of the process. The highest CTC offered was 1.02 crores ($150,000), and the highest domestic CTC was Rs 66 lakhs.

Placement Summary 

Batch number	223
Number of participating students	210
Students placed	210
Students who opted out of the process	13
Number of offers	220
Pre-placement offers made	60
Pre?placement offers accepted	52
No. of offers in the laterals	54
No. of offers in the finals	106
No. of companies confirming participation	147
No. of companies that made offers	80

29% of placement offers were made in Sales & Marketing, 23% in Finance, 37% in Consulting, and General Management, and 11% in IT/ Operations/ E-Commerce. 

Also read, IIM Trichy summer placements report

Stats of offers  

Sales & Marketing	29%
Finance	23%
Consulting/ General Management	37%
IT/ Operations/ E-Commerce	11%

Sales & Marketing roles were offered by companies like Asian Paints, HT Media, Dr. Reddy’s, Bajaj, Microsoft among various others. 

 

Participating companies

Sales & Marketing	Adobe
	Alshaya
	Dr. Reddy’s
	Lava
	Asian Paints
	Bajaj
	Future Group
	Heinz
	BCCL
	Emami
	HT Media
	ITC
	Casio
	HUL
	Tata Steel
	Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
	GAIL
	Microsoft
	PepsiCo
	Nestle
	Trident Group
	Philips
	Tata Sky
	Star
	Vodafone
Consulting/General Management	Accenture Strategy
	Airtel
	BCG
	Capgemini
	Concentrix
	Cognizant
	Deloitte
	S&O
	FTI Consulting
	EY Consulting
	Hinduja Tech
	Hinduja Group
	GE
	Mahindra & Mahindra
	KPMG
	Olam International
	Positive Moves Consulting
	Reliance Industries Limited
	Tata Administrative Services
	RPG Group
	Telenor
Finance/BFSI	American Express
	Axis Bank
	Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion(CDFI)
	Airtel
	Avendus Capital
	Deutsche Bank
	Edelweiss
	Colgate Palmolive
	Karvy Finance
	ICICI Bank
	Standard Chartered
	IDFC Bank
	Spark Capital
	IndusInd Bank
	Morgan Stanley
	Indus Valley Partners
	Trident Group
	J.P. Morgan
	PepsiCo
	Vodafone
	SBI
	SBI Capital Markets
	Yes Bank
	SBI Cards
E-Commerce /IT/ Operations	Amazon
	HCL
	IBM
	Carzonrent
	Flipkart
	ShopClues
	Hexaware
	Dazzlo
	PayTm
	Wipro
	Tolexo
	Times Internet
	VMock
	Uber

Key highlights

• Highest CTC: 1.02 crores ($150,000)

• Highest Domestic CTC: 66 lakhs

• Average CTC rose by 20% to 20.5 lakhs

• Median CTC rose by 21% to 20 lakhs

• Average CTC for top 50% batch rose by 25% to 25.5 lakhs

• 30% increase in the number of offers in Finance/BFSI sector from 2015

• 15% of finance roles offered in Front?End Investment Banking

• Largest recruiters at FMS include EY Consulting (13 offers), Accenture Strategy (9 offers), Star India (8 offers), ITC (7 offers) and M.H. Alshaya (7 offers)

• 26% of batch placed in Consulting roles

• 25% increase in number of PPOs accepted

• Average CTC for female candidates rose by 20% to 20.9 lakhs

• Average CTC for male candidates rose by 21% to 20.4 lakhs

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