IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB) at Krea University has announced that 165 of the 175 students who sat for placements have been hired by leading global and Indian consulting, finance and technology companies, while others have been hired for roles in strategy, marketing and operations.  

Notably, students got new-age roles in valuation consulting, risk and financial advisory, digital consulting, financial planning and analysis, risk consulting and modelling, business analysis and management consulting. 

This year’s placement season at IFMR GSB saw a total of 78 recruiters, of which 34 were new recruiters. Some of the prominent recruiters included Barclays, EY, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Accenture, Société Générale, CRISIL, Temenos, Tiger Analytics, ZS Associates, Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Oracle, HCL Technologies, Genpact, Philips, Tata International and Northern Arc, to name a few. 

New recruiters

This year the average salaries were up by over 10 per cent across the top 25 per cent, 50 per cent and overall, with the highest salary offered to be ₹18 lakh per annum. 

“With the pandemic accelerating the shift to digital transformation, IFMR GSB’s focus on embedding data-science across all subjects attracted a large canvas of new recruiters to the campus,” said Prof Lakshmi Kumar, Dean of IFMR GSB at Krea University.  

“While the average salaries have grown across bands, it’s heartening to note that students are pivoting more to exciting roles that provide them long-term career growth than merely be fixated on compensation and benefits,” added Kumar.