501 offers by 123 companies for 441 students | IIM Calcutta Placement Report 2019
The Consulting domain made the maximum number of offers (29% of total) followed by the Finance sector with a share of 21%.
IIM Calcutta placement cell hasn’t yet revealed the highest offered salary this year. Last year, it was INR 75 lakhs.
Here is a snapshot of the most important numbers of this day:
| S.No. | Parameter | Number |
| 1 | No. of recruiters | 123 |
| 2 | No. of participating students | 441 |
| 3 | No. of offers made | 501 |
| 4 | Average salary | INR 25.36 lakhs (last year- 24.2 lakhs) |
| 5 | Largest recruiter | Accenture (24 offers) |
As you see, 501 offers were made by 123 participating companies for 441 students. This is the highest number of offers made at IIM Calcutta over the last three years.
Top recruiters this year:
Apart from Accenture Strategy, the leading hiring companies were:
- Goldman Sachs
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML)
- Citi
- JP Morgan Chase, among others.
Sector-wise placement breakdown
The percentage of offers made by each participating sector is given below:
| S.No. | Sector | Offers made (in percentage) |
| 1 | Consulting | 29 |
| 2 | Finance | 21 |
| 3 | E-commerce, Operations, Product Management | 16 |
| 4 | General Management | 14 |
| 5 | Sales and Marketing | 12 |
| 6 | IT Analytics | 8 |
A thorough comparison with the sector-wise percentage of offers made last year is given below.
Top recruiters in each sector
| S.No. | Sector | Top Recruiters |
| 1 | Consulting | Accenture AT Kearney Bain, etc. |
| 2 | Finance | Goldman Sachs Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) Citi, etc. |
| 3 | E-commerce, operations, product management | Amazon Uber Udaan, etc. |
Comparison with previous years
The overall 2018 vs 2019 comparison looks like this:
| Parameter | Placement 2018 | Placement 2019 |
| Total no. of recruiters | 130 | 123 |
| Total no. of students | 432 | 441 |
| Average package | INR 24.40 lakhs | INR 25.36 lakhs |
| Median package | INR 22.0 lakhs | INR 23.5 lakhs |
| Offers made | 479 | 501 |
Except for the no. of recruiters, each aspect of the placement process has only bettered since 2018.
Zooming in, this is how the salary picture looked at IIM Calcutta in the previous years:
| Year | Highest salary (in lakhs) | Average salary (in lakhs) |
| 2019 | NA | 25.36 |
| 2018 | 75 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 70 | 20.0 |
The average salary offered this year is INR 1.16 lakhs more than last year’s average package.
The percentage of offers made by different sectors in both the years is summarized in the table below:
| Sector | Placement breakdown 2018 | Placement breakdown 2019 |
| Consulting | 22 | 29 |
| Finance | 28 | 21 |
| E-commerce, Operations, and Product Management | 7 | 16 |
| General Management | 14 | 14 |
| Sales marketing | 17 | 12 |
| IT and Analytics | 11 | 8 |
There was no change in the General Management offers made in 2018 and 2019; they both stand at 14%. Compared to last year, there was a 50% increase in job offers made by E-commerce, Operations, and Product Management.
Consulting and Finance took away 50% of the students. Even though consulting offers increased by 7%, finance offers declined by 7%. Sales and Marketing recorded a 5% increase in job offers, whereas the IT Analytics sector recorded a 3% increase.