Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) Indian Institutes of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) released interim Placement for the batch of 2016-18. For the batch 2016-18 highest salary offered is INR 20 lpa and highest international salary offered 27 lpa & lowest salary offered is INR 8 lpa. Top 2% average salary is INR 17.4 LPA. For The batch 2016-18 total 41 companies come for recruitment. Total of 112 offers to a batch of 111 students including 23 PPO. The biggest chunk of recruitment was however recorded in the consulting area, which was followed closed by the role in analytics, general Management and operations domains. As the diversity of batch increased, so has the gamut of role received, role were offered across the entire spectrum of management, ranging from general management to sales and marketing.
25% of batches placed in Consulting sector followed by 16% in analytics, 14% in operation and 11% in IT/ITeS. Top recruiters are Accenture Digital, Amazon, Azure power, BT, Crisil, HSBC, ICICI Bank, Federal bank, Infosys, Maybank, Musgna, PwC and many more.
(VGSoM) was set up as the first school of management within the IIT system in 1993 at a time when India had just opened its doors to economic liberalization. The school was established with an aim to develop managers with a strong technological background who would lead tomorrow’s corporate behemoths on the path of success. The concept was to start a business school along the lines of Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, that is, a business school within a renowned technical institute. The School of Management was founded by a distinguished alumnus & a life time Fellow of the Institute, Mr. Vinod Gupta (B. Tech. 1967), the former CEO and Chairman of InfoGROUP.
