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By the first week of January, 97% of students had already received placement offers from leading recruiters like Accenture, Aditya Birla Capital, ADP, Amazon, Barclays, Cognizant, Capgemini, Deloitte, Gartner, HCL, EY, Honeywell, HSBC, Infosys, ITC Infotech, L&T Infotech, Mentis, MuSigma, TCS, Virtusa, ZS Associates to name a few.

The highest domestic CTC attained by a student was 29 Lakhs p.a. offered by a multinational consulting firm. The average CTC of the batch increased to 13.1 Lakhs p.a. The process is set to wrap up on a high with the remaining students awaiting to interview with top companies over the next few weeks.

Great Lakes PGPM class of 2019 was an eclectic mix of students from diverse educational backgrounds and industry experience ranging between 2 to 5 years and this made it attractive for recruiters looking for business ready talent who could start delivering from day one.

Students were offered various coveted roles in sectors such as Analytics, BFSI, IT/ITES, Consulting, E-commerce, Technology Consulting, FMCG and Product. Where IT/ITES (37%) was the largest recruiting sector followed by Tech Consulting (23%), Business Consulting (22%) and BFSI (5%). In terms of the functional areas, Technology Consulting (33%) attracted the largest set of offers followed by Analytics (15%) and Sales and Marketing (14%).

“This year the placement season was highly successful. The highlight of this placement was a significant increase in offers for Strategy Consulting, Product Management, Digital and Analytics roles.”, said Dr. M. Balaji, Director, Corporate and Career Services, Great Lakes Institute of Management.

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