18% increase in average package for women | FMS Delhi Placement Report 2019
There was a dip in the highest salary but each of the participating students was placed, taking the FMS Delhi placement rate to 100%.
The FMS Delhi placement process was divided into 2 parts- the lateral and the final placement process. Students with work ex of more than 18 months prior to their MBA participated in the lateral process.
- The highest salary went down from INR 54 LPA last year to INR 48 LPA this year.
- Average salary went up from INR 21.2 LPA in 2018 to INR 23.20 LPA this year.
- The average package for women students hiked to INR 25.10 LPA from INR 22.60 LPA last year, spelling an 18% increase.
- The top 100 students of FMS received offers with a package of INR 27 lakhs.
- 68% of students received offers with a package > INR 20 LPA.
Overview
| S.No. | Parameter | Number |
| 1 | No. of recruiters | 68 |
| 2 | No. of participating students | 198 |
| 3 | No. of offers made | 210 |
| 4 | No. of PPOs | 50 |
| 5 | No. of PPOs accepted | 48 |
| 6 | Top recruiting domain | Sales and Marketing |
| 7 | No. of students who chose entrepreneurship | 18 |
The students who choose to go the entrepreneurial way declare themselves to be on a placement holiday. They choose to pursue their ventures and, up to a period of 2 years, can participate in another placement process.
Top recruiters included: Nestle, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), ITC, Reckitt Benckiser, BMW, Google, Bain & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, Accenture Strategy, Deloitte India, Capgemini, E.L.I.T.E., Flipkart, OYO, Amazon, UBER, Paytm, Microsoft. Startups like CoverFox, OfBusiness, and Unimoni were also a part of the FMS Delhi placement process.
Breakdown across domains
| Domain | Percentage of offers made | No. of PPOs | No. of Campus offers |
| IT/ E-commerce/ Operations | 27.27% | 7 | 54 |
| Sales and Marketing | 25.25% | 17 | 50 |
| Consulting | 18.1% | 8 | 36 |
| Finance | 15.6% | 9 | 31 |
| General Management | 13.6% | 7 | 27 |
In the Consulting, General Management, and Strategy domain:
| Business Consulting | Accenture Strategy Bain & Co. BCG, etc. |
| IT/ ERP/ Business Process Consulting | Infosys Mgt. Consulting Thoucentric |
| General Management/ Strategy | Adani Airtel American Express, etc. |
In the Sales and Marketing domain:
| FMCG/ FMCD/ Retail/ Manufacturing | Amway Asian Paints HUL ITC Jubilant Foodworks, etc. |
| Automobile | BMW |
| Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Medical Devices | Cipla Dr. Reddy’s Lab GE |
| Tech, IT, others | Google Infosys Management Consulting Tech Mahindra, etc. |
In the IT/ E-commerce/ Operations domain:
| IT/ E-commerce/ Operations | Amazon American Express Cloudtail EXL Go-MMT, etc. |
In the BFSI domain:
| Treasury | Hero Standard Chartered |
| Corporate Finance and Business Development | Adani GE Go-MMT OYO Rooms Rivigo RPG Tata Sky |
| Corporate and Transaction/ Banking Roles | Axis Bank HSBC ICICI, etc. |
Comparative Analysis
Charting the trends in FMS since 2016, we get the following data:
| Year | Average salary (in INR lakhs) | Highest salary (in INR lakhs) | No. of recruiters |
| 2019 | 23.1 | 48 | 68 |
| 2018 | 21.1 | 54 | 83 |
| 2017 | 20.6 | 54 | 81 |
| 2016 | 20.5 | 66 | 80 |
More or less, numbers have remained consistent for FMS. Out of the 129 who confirmed participation in the FMS placement process, only 68 were allowed to make offers- quite a dive from last year’s 83.
Established in 1954, FMS has continued to shine on and cement a legacy of its own since the past 65 years. It is one of the best ROI B-school, charging INR 12,000 per year for the 2 year MBA programme. No other programme is so affordable and highly-rated at the same time. The placement process at FMS stands as a testimony to this fact.