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Vinod Gupta School of Management
IIT Kharagpur
SUMMMER PLACEMENT REPORT
Batch of 2015-2017
Chairperson’s Statement
It gives me immense pleasure to announce that our summer
placement for the batch 2015-17 has been successfully
completed. The Summer Placements have seen a substantial
increase in the number of first time recruiters. As many as 24
companies visited the campus for the first time. The average
compensation has also seen an increase of 30%.
The batch of 2015-17 is a good mix of 83 students from diverse
engineering backgrounds. VGSoM, true to its legacy, draws
meritorious talent from a multitude of industrial backgrounds.
The Alumni of VGSoM have been the flag bearers of VGSoM
across the globe and their support and guidance have been one
of the main reasons for bigger brands and industry giants visiting
the campus.
The placement report stands as a testimony to the quality of
students here at VGSoM and the relevant curriculum as per
current business needs. We are really buoyant with the feedback
received from the recruiters and look forward to strengthen this
mutually beneficial corporate engagement. Lastly, I would like to
thank all the students of the batch for showing great enthusiasm
towards learning.
Prof. Prabina Rajib
Chairperson
Placement Committee
prabina@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in
+91-9434004940
Prof. Biplab Datta
Co-Chairperson
Placement Committee
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Batch Profile
CSE/IT
27%
ECE
33%
EEE & Mechanical
16%
Others
25%
Engineering
Background
Previous Work
Experience
36-47 months
13%
24-35 months
29%
12-23 months
0-11 months
30%
22%
48+ months
6%
Gender Ratio
FEMALE 10%
MALE 90%
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Placement Statistics
Average Stipend
76,880*
79
Median
Placed
4
61,600*
83
Opt Outs
Highest Domestic Stipend
1,50,000
Batch Size
44
Highest International Stipend
5,00,000
Companies
Total Offers
97
Role Wise Offers
40%
21%
21%
13%
6%
Marketing
Finance &
General
Management
Analytics
Consulting
Operations
*Average stipend & Median is inclusive of Domestic as well as international offers.
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Profiles Offered
Consulting & Analytics
Over the years Consulting has been one of the the most
preferred domains at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. Companies like
PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
Accenture
Management
Consulting and IVIZ showed faith in the talent pool of VGSoM
offering niche profiles. PriceWaterhouseCoopers also offered
the coveted role of Management Consulting. Boston
Consulting Group, Virtusa, Tiger Analytics, Global
Analytics and Perceptive Analytics were the first time
recruiters for Consulting and Analytics profile.
Manufacturing, Energy, Logistics & Automobile
Manufacturing sector has traditionally been the forte of
VGSoM and this year was no different. Reputed companies
like BPCL, Siemens, Praxair and Polaris Automobiles offered
profiles of Marketing and Supply Chain Management.
National Instruments offered roles of Sales & Marketing and
Market research. Return Trucks, a 3PL company offered
logistics role. BenQ has been the first time recruiter this year
and showed faith in the knowledge and skills of students by
recruiting in large numbers.
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Profiles Offered
FMCG, E-commerce and Retail
Several reputed FMCGs lined up for recruitment this year. Big
names include McCain, Titan, Bluestar and Havmor. RPG
Group (Spencer’s Retail Ltd) offered the coveted profile of
General
Management.
World’s
Largest
Shipping
Corporation, Maersk Line offered Marketing and Logistics
role. Myntra has been our recruiter for past 2 years showing
its faith in VGSoM students and offering Supply Chain and
Inventory Management roles to students.
IT/ITES
With a dominant prior work-ex in IT sector, VGSoM is the
preferred place to recruit students for IT Industry. Owing to
that many domestic as well as international booming roles
were offered. Infofree offered Big Data Analytics profile and
offered the first international internship at VGSoM. Industry
giants IBM and Wipro offered internship in the areas of Sales,
Marketing and General Management to our students.
Banking and Financial Services
Major BFSI companies like Nomura, Reserve Bank of India,
Crisil, Praxair, Capgemini and Bankers Quotient offered
roles such as Credit Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions,
Financial Consulting and Valuation in finance domain.
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Profiles Offered
Media and Others
This year we saw companies from Media sector like ABP,
Dainik Bhaskar offering roles in marketing profile. Other
recruiters included Upgrad, VistaRooms which offered roles
of General Management, Marketing and Product Management.
Students bagged similar roles from Allevents.in, NinjaCart,
Shopsup, Houzify, Jugular Social Media, NextGen,
Rocketium and BuildMyGhar.
Closing Note
Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur would like to
thank its regular recruiters and the first time recruiters for trusting
in the talent of the students at this prestigious B-School. We are
confident that in the coming years, more recruiters would show
interest in hiring from VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur and hope for fruitful
relations with all the recruiters.
We would like to thank our students and professors for their efforts
during placements. Special thanks to our alumni network for their
support. We would also like to thank Career Development Centre,
IIT Kharagpur for their help through out the process. We are
confident that placements will reach a new height in the coming
years.
Career Development & Placement Cell, VGSoM IIT Kharagpur
placements@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in || +91-3222-279108
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