Placements 2008 has indelibly etched MDI amongst the pantheon of top business schools in India. For, as the glorious saga unfolded over the Day Zero, the 168 students who set for placements ended up with offers of recruitment not only from their dream companies but more importantly in preferred profiles.
The two years of preparation for the corporate world of some of the most talented minds, selected through unarguably the toughest examination for managerial aptitude, and rigorously exposed to the best in management education and industry practice in India proved its worth on the day that mattered. It was the day for people to dream, to aspire, to realize, and to rejoice.
The list of recruiters, in continuation of the trend in the last few years, burgeoned both in terms of number and their diversity. The numbers speak for themselves - more than 120 companies evinced interest in recruiting from the 115 students who had enrolled for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), 31 students enrolled in the Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management (PGP-HR) and 22 students enrolled in the Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM). Of these, 35 were placed in the lateral placement process and 12 accepted the pre-placement offer extended to them.
In keeping with the recent trend where management students have taken the entrepreneurial route, 4 students opted out to pursue their ambition of being wealth creators for nation. The rest 121 students were placed in the Day Zero. In all, 67 companies snapped up the graduating students of the batch of 2006-08.
The list of recruiting companies represents a mind-boggling array of the most reputed and respected corporate straddling almost all the sectors of the Indian economy: Banking, Consulting, Financial Services, Insurance and Investment Banking, FMGC, Media, Manufacturing, IT, Pharmaceuticals, Retail and Telecom.
Posted By Staff Reporter: Gurgaon City News
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