IIM Placements 2025: Highest Salary Package & Top Recruiting Companies

The IIM placement process for MBA/PGP is conducted in December-February. IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore and IIM Calcutta have released their placement data 2025. Get complete details of IIM placement process of all 21 IIMs, highest salary, average salary, top companies and job roles.

IIM placements for MBA programmes are conducted between December-February every year and the institutes release their final placements reports for the outgoing batch between January and July. IIM Placement reports 2024-2026 can be expected to be released in upcoming months. 

In the IIM final placements, the average salary package offered to candidates ranges from INR 20-25 lakh per annum, whereas the salary packages of the newer IIMs are usually recorded between INR 10-20 lakh per annum. In the past, the highest salary offers at the top IIMs - A, B, C have been recorded at INR 70 lakh to INR 1 crore as CTC. International salary packages offered are usually INR 70 lakh per annum and above. According to the latest data available, the highest salary package (domestic) of INR 1.10 crore per annum was offered during IIM Ahmedabad placements 2025 The highest international salary package stood at INR 91.88 lakh per annum.

Campus placements are clear indicator of value of the course in the job market and repute of the institute among corporate giants. IIM placements 2025 witnessed participation of usual recruiters such as E&Y, Deloitte, Walmart, Accenture, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Tolaram, Squareyards & Protiviti, EXL, KPMG, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Zomato, ICICI Bank, Bajaj, Axis, Tata, WIPRO, etc. visiting the IIM campuses for recruitment of management graduates in various job roles. A major drop in highest and average CTC was noted for most of the new and baby IIMs. Read below all about IIM placements 2025.

The PGP/MBA graduates are offered various managerial roles in different sectors and domains. Function-wise most of the offers are for positions such as Consultant and Managers. In this article, you will find all the information related to IIM placements of all 21 campuses including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow. IIMs are amongst the top MBA colleges in India and placement packages at IIMs is often a matter of great interest for MBA aspirants.

IIM Placements 2025: Highest/Average salary packages offered

The IIMs have witnessed rise highest packages and average salary offers last year and this year. Take a look at the table below for the latest IIM placements 2025 reports.

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IIM Placement Process

The placement process at IIMs comprises three major activities – namely Summer, Lateral and Final Placements. The below table indicates the month wise schedule of placement process.

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Summer Placements are organised in April-May for the firms to recruit students for internships. Summer placements also help in building a platform to receive pre-placement offers (PPOs). Summer placements happen over four to five days in the month of March. This process is guided by an elaborate set of rules for both students and recruiters.

Lateral Placements at IIMs take place a couple of months before the final placements in which two-year MBA/PGP students with work experience (18 months and more) can participate. 

Final Placements are conducted in December-January. The process is almost similar across all the IIMs except for a few minor deviations here and there. For example, IIM Ahmedabad follows the cohort-based system, instead of the day-based system. The cohort based system allows recruiters to assess students in groups based on domain or expertise over a longer period of time.

IIM MBA Placements: Highest International Packages Offered

Placements record of any institute is very important for an aspirant from employment point of view. A good campus placement leads to a good career (generally). The table below indicates highest CTC in the last few years, offered at some of the most prominent IIMs by global/international organisations. 

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