Analysis of IIM Ahmedabad summer placement report 2020-2022

IIM Ahmedabad summer placement 2020-2022 recently concluded in an online mode with the participation of 131 firms. Following its unique procedure of dividing firms into cohorts based on the industry and sector, this year also the B-School invited the cohorts to the campus across different clusters. Spanned across one week, the summer placement was conducted in three clusters. Speaking of the financials, the institute has yet not disclosed any statement.

Major highlights of IIM Ahmedabad summer placement 2020-2022 are as follows :

Number of clusters	3
Total number of participating recruiters	131
Number of new recruiters	33
Top recruiter	Bain & Company
Sector with the highest placements	Consulting
Number of dream applications	202

Clusters and cohorts

With an aim of creating a better fit between the students and the firms, IIM Ahmedabad introduced the Cohort system back in 2009! To make the process student-friendly, the sequence of cohorts is decided as per the batch-preference. Here is a summary of this year’s cluster-wise breakdown of IIM Ahmedabad summer placement 2020-2022.

Cluster	Cohorts	Number of Participating firms	Top recruiter
1	1. Investment banking & markets 2. Management consulting 3. Advisory consulting and private equity 4. Venture capital & asset management	~50	Bain & Company (20)
2	1. Advertising & Media 2. Consumer Electronics 3. Consumer Goods & Durables 4. Consumer Services 5. Conglomerates 6. Retail B2B & B2C 7. Pharma–health care	~40	Amazon (14)
3	1. Banking & Insurance 2. Financial Services 3. Consumer Technology 4. Core Manufacturing & Infrastructure 5. Education Tech 6. Enterprise Tech 7. Food & Dairy 8. Govt. Enterprises 9. Analytics & IT Consulting 10. Renewable Energy & Green Tech 11. Social Enterprises & NGO	~50	TCS (15)

Sector-wise breakdown of IIM Ahmedabad summer placement 2020-2022

Consulting and Consumer goods and services remained the top fetchers of students this summer with the placement of 104 and 83 students respectively. Here is a breakdown of the placement of 388 across various sectors:

Sector	Number of students placed
Consulting	104
Consumer Goods and Services	83
Technology and Internet	77
Financial Services	75
Conglomerates	35
Others (Pharma, Renewable energy and Infrastructure)	14
Total number of students placed	388

Prominent recruiters

The summer placement showed a bevy of interesting recruiters with 33 first-timers on the campus like DuPont, Everest Instruments, Atlassian, Bayer, BPCL, Cipla, Godrej Fund Management, Oracle, Reserve Bank of India, Unacademy, Phillips, Purplle.com, and Walmart Global Tech. Prominent recruiters in different cohorts are as follows:

Management consulting: Arete Advisors, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture Strategy, Alvarez & Marsal, Arthur D Little, KPMG, McKinsey & Company and PwC

Investment Banking and Markets space: Edelweiss Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Arpwood Capital, Avendus Capital, Bank of America, Citibank, Credit Suisse (Singapore and India), and Nomura India.

Private equity and Venture Capital domain: Temasek, True North, Blackstone, Gaja Capital, IndiaRF, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, and White Oak

Consumer goods and durables, consumer services and consumer electronics: ITC, Kimberly Clark, Lenovo, Mondelez, Nestle, AB InBev, Airtel, Asian Paints, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Dabur, HUL, P&G, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser, Samsung Electronics, Tata Sky and Wipro Consumer Care

Conglomerates: JSW, Mahindra Group, RPG Group, Adani, Aditya Birla Group, Bajaj Group, and TAS

Retail B2B & B2C cohort: Flipkart, Grofers, Amazon, Cloudtail, eShakti, and Prione

Pharma and Healthcare cohort: Indigene, Stryker, and Dr. Reddy’s

Consumer technology cohort: Razorpay, Info Edge, People Interactive, and PayU
Enterprise Tech: Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Atlassian Corporation, Intel, and Sprinklr

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