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PGPX: One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives
   
PGPX Placements 2007
   
The PGPX (1 year full time residential Post Graduate Programme for executives) is a special programme that is unique in the following respects

  • It requires that all students are above 27 years of age with substantial years of work experience
  • It is mandatory for all students to spend time outside the country on international immersion
  • It requires all students to be grounded in areas pertinent to senior and top management like corporate governance, tracking organizational performance, mergers and acquisitions, etc.
With accelerated economic growth and new opportunities emerging in the last five years, many are now choosing to work immediately after their bachelor’s degree and, after having worked for several years, they feel the need for a professional management qualification to either accelerate their career growth or shift to a different vertical at a higher level.  PGPX has been designed and launched by IIMA to meet this need.

PGPX is a full time residential programme specially designed for those who have a sufficient amount of managerial experience to make them a “truly experienced masters” class.  The entering batch of 2006 (which is the first graduating PGPX batch of 2007) had a profile as follows

  • Average age 32 (range 27-43)
  • Average GMAT 699 which places the PGPX batch amongst the best one year MBA programmes in the world.  For instance, INSEAD has 707 average GMAT while Harvard has an average GMAT of 690.
  • Average experience of 9 years
Placements for the pioneering first PGPX batch are now complete. IIMA is proud to announce that it has achieved 100% placements for all available students of the first batch well before their graduation. Of the 60 students in the batch, 58 took placements. 135 offers were made to candidates in the first batch with roles varying from Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer to Group Engagement Manager to Corporate Strategy Officer to Vice President (Sales and Marketing) to Senior Associate to Senior Analyst to Operations Manager.

The heartening part of the process is that the market is also signaling that it recognizes that the PGPX is a different programme with recruits coming in at a different level (middle and senior management roles).  Jobs were accepted companies that are in consulting, manufacturing, corporate banking, retailing, IT, telecommunications, chemical process industry, investment banking, private equity, and energy sectors.  Companies that recruited from the PGPX programme include Arthur D Little, Booz Allen Hamilton US/UK, Citigroup IBD, Computer Associates, Covansys, Genpact, Hazira LNG Pvt. Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., Honeywell Technology Solutions, ICRA, IMACS, Infotech Entreprises, Kotak PE, KPIT, McKinsey, Microsoft, MindTree Consulting, NISG, Nexus, Reliance Energy, Reliance Communications, Reliance MA, RPG, Satyam, Shalby Hospital, Syntel Inc., Tech Mahindra, VSNL, WNS and Yes Bank.

With the success of the PGPX programme, IIMA now has a “full menu” of products for recruiters – entry level hires – bright young people with little or no experience and experienced hires at the middle and senior management levels.
 
PGPX Pioneers - Placement Statistics
 
Key Facts

  • A total of 135 offers were made to 58 students during the placement process
  • 62 Companies participated in the Placement process
  • Maximum International Salary - $250,000
  • Maximum Indian Salary – Rs. 60,00,000
Average Salary

Average Domestic Salary Offered Rs. 24.65 Lacs
Average Overseas salary Offered US $ 135,000
Minimum Domestic Salary Offered Rs. 15 Lacs
Minimum Overseas Salary Offered US $ 70,000
No of Students placed :
Indian Placements 46
Overseas Placements 14
Total 60


Break-up by Industry

Sector %
Consulting 19%
Finance 15%
Telecommunication 13%
ITES 6%
Retail 4%
Information Technology 34%
Energy 9%


Percentage Increase in Salaries

Overall Overseas Domestic
Incoming US $ 75,713 Rs. 917,616
Outgoing US $ 135,507 Rs. 24,65,257
Percentage Increase 79% 168%


Functional Break-up

Function %
Business Development 26%
Consulting 19%
PE/VC/lbank 11%
General Management 26%
Strategy & Planning 19%


Change in Sector Profile
 
 
PGPX I (2006-07) Student’s Quote
"Without having done PGPX, I may not have had the confidence or skills to take on this role."
- James Beeson, Financial Controller, United Water, Shang Hai, China
 


For more information, please contact:

Manager, PGPX
(One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives)
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad – 380015, India
Tel: +91-79-6632 4449/50                             Fax: +91-79-6632 4447

Email: pgpxquery@iimahd.ernet.in             Web:  www.iimahd.ernet.in