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Why recruit at IIMA

Intelligence, Drive, Ambition, Leadership, A Sense of Purpose, Adaptability to Change – The qualities you look for before you hire are precisely the qualities the Institute looks for in the students it selects.

IIMA believes that it is the combination of its students and its faculty, the academic rigour and all-round development, comprehensive curriculum and the way in which it is delivered - that makes it the Institute of choice for International and domestic recruiters.

There are many reasons to recruit from India’s best B-school. Here are a few of them:

1. You can recruit at the entry level, at the middle management level and at the senior and top management levels - for corporate and public management roles

2. On the PGP program, less than .3% of its 100,000 applicants are admitted; on the PGPX program the selectivity for the third batch was 1:14 which compares well with the best b-schools in the world

3. The Economist ranks it ahead of Harvard as the world’s toughest B-school to get into

4. In a lean year it still had as many international offers as the next three Indian B-schools taken together

5. Some of the world’s leading Investment banks recruit nowhere else in India

6. It has always been ranked amongst the best three schools in Asia Pacific

7. Its programs are now internationally accredited

 

The Institute attracts the best talent from all disciplines and backgrounds. They come from the best engineering schools and liberal arts college in the country, and invariably have a history of professional or extra-curricular accomplishment in addition to an exceptional academic record. The one year program participants (PGPX and PMP) bring a wealth of experience from around the world.

This in turn succeeds in attracting the best companies. IIMA remains the only B-school in India where Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Asset Management and UBS Warburg come for summer and final recruitment. In addition to entry level jobs, Business Unit Heads, CXOs, General Managers  and Sr. Managers get hired from the campus to a variety of firms in India and abroad.

This in turn has given us an alumni that reads like the who’s who of the international corporate world - The Chief Economist of the IMF, the CEO of India’s largest private bank, the Global Head of fixed income research at Lehman, the MD of Credit Suisse First Boston, the CEO of India’s largest FMCG company, CK Prahalad – the man who gave the world the concept of ‘core competence’ – studied here.