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Good Salary Packages for IIT and IIMs

It’s raining ripe offers at the the 13-year-old Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at IIT Kharagpur. This year the highest salary offer has touched Rs 15 lakhs per annum. And it’s not a one off offer. The average salary package is hovering near the Rs 10 lakh figure.

The final placements of this B-school has just been concluded with a batch of 120 students placed successfully. A stunning piece of statistics reveals it all. Sixty recruitment firms vied with each other for students and the entire batch was placed on the first day itself. IT firms have picked up the maximum number of students (35%), followed by consultancies (19%), finance (18%) and marketing (17%). The remaining slots were shared by BPOs, operations and HR. Moreover, at least 20% of the students of the batch had bagged pre-placement offers at the end of their six-month internship.

More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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