239 IFMR students graduate, get 100 percent placement

Invoking Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’ and also referring to an Italian proverb “At the end of the game of chess, the king and the pawn go back in the same box”,  Dr Sunder Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor of KREA University, addressed graduates of the IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR GSB), KREA University, at the convocation ceremony held at the Sri city campus on Tuesday. 

Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). was the Chief Guest and he delivered the convocation address. He said, “Success comes from professional orientation. And professional orientation comes from discipline and capacity. The discipline to set ones’ goals and the capacity to work towards them.” He also spoke of rural India and discussed what “Bharat” offers to the youth of today.

Continuing his address, Dr Ramaswamy, advised students to focus more on what life has to offer as opposed to net worth. “Happiness comes with what you have and not what you want,” he added.

A total of 239 MBA (Full-Time) students were awarded their graduation certificates. Five PhD scholars, who had successfully defended their theses and completed their public viva-voce at Madras University, were also recognised.

“We are happy to announce that our students have got 100 per cent placements in top companies through campus recruitment and the highest salary offered to two of our students is Rs 18.8 lakh by Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Ltd. A total of 50 companies visited our campus for placements this year. We wish all our students a very best for their future endeavours,” Dr Anantha Nageswaran, Dean of IFMR GSB, added.

Dr Nagreswaran also spoke about the part-time programmes that were conducted last year for working executives, especially in Data Sciences area. He highlighted information with regards to faculty research in finance, economics and management and IFMR GSB’s in-house journal, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, one of the top three management journals in the country.