IIM-Ranchi has again set the benchmark and broke previous year’s record in campus placements, as one its students has grabbed the offer of Rs 55.23 lakh per annum in a multinational firm. Just five year-old premier management institute has been successful in bringing biggest corporate giants like Accenture, larsen and Toubro, Google, Ola, Make my Trip and others for recruitments.
All the 160 students of the current academic batch (2014-16) are placed in various companies, maintaining the record of cent percent campus placements. “This year even the pre placements offers have gone up to 37 per cent in comparison to last year. As many as 69 companies visited the campus. The highest International package of Rs 55.23 lakhs were offered to a student whereas the highest domestic package is of 25.5 lakhs per annum,” informed, Chairperson, placement cell, Saumya Sarkar.
Providing analysis of the Post Graduation Diploma in Human Resource Management (PGDHRM) placement records, Sarkar added, “Approximately 34 companies have hired the HR executives. The highest package in this programme went to Rs. 20.2 lakhs and the increase of seven percent was witnessed in the HR recruitment too this year.”
International partnership have been done with seven institutes operating in Greece, Canada, Thailand, Taiwan, USA and two in France. In the student exchange programme two French students will visit IIM-R next session and will complete one semester here with other IIM-R candidates.
This year five startup projects and five E-commerce businesses were also witnessed. The convocation ceremony for the batch 2014-16 has been slated on March 29 at Cockerel Auditorium, Deepatoli where 124 PGDM graduates and 38 PGDHRM graduates will receive the degree. Director, TATA Sons ltd, has given his consent to grace the convocation ceremony as the Chief Guest.
The entrance examination procedure for the next academic session will be initiated soon and the process will be common for 9 new IIMs, A Sen, Director In-charge IIM-R, said, “We have 120 PGDM seats and 9772 candidates have been shortlisted for the programme. Selection will be based on CAT score, written test, graduation discipline marks followed by an interview. For PGDHRM programme 1400 students have applied and 680 candidates have been shortlisted. CAT score, graduation marks and written test marks will be considered while selecting the candidate for HR programme.”
This year the eligible candidates have to pay Rs. 12.50 lakhs for completing management programme from IIM-R.