11 February 2019 10:57:56 IST

TAPMI secures 100% PGDM placement

Highest offer is at ₹20 lakh a year, and top 100 students got an average salary of ₹14 lakh a year

The Manipal-based TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) secured 100 per cent placement for the 2017-19 batch of its Post-graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme.

This current batch had 412 students eligible for placements, out of which 12 students opted out of placements to venture on their own. This leaves 400 students getting placed across 126 companies.

The highest offer stood at ₹20 lakh a year, and the top 100 students were offered an average salary package of ₹14 lakh a year. The average package for the 2017-19 PGDM batch was ₹11.06 lakh a year. As many as 52 students were offered pre-placement through summer internships with an average package of ₹12.1 lakh a year.

The BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) sector recruited the highest number of candidates, followed by consulting, IT, e-commerce, FMCG and retail sectors. The key recruiters included Amul, Accenture, Britannia, Citi Bank, Citi Corp, Deloitte, EY, Godrej, Grant Thornton, HDFC Bank, HSBC, ICICI, ITC, JP Morgan Chase, Salesforce, Titan, TresVista and ValueLabs.

The PGDM programme focuses on ‘leadership through value-creation’ strengthened via the young leader programme, global exposure and support from 5000-plus alumni of TAPMI, said a press release.

Madhu Veeraraghavan, Director of TAPMI, congratulated the 2017-19 batch and reiterated TAPMI’s commitment towards quality academic inputs and career development of the students.

TAPMI had recently announced a 100 per cent placement for the 2017-19 batch of PGDM-BKFS (PGDM - Banking and Financial Services) programme.