Students' Speak: All about the placement eligibility at Presidency College, Bangalore

By: Sujaine Mishra

Companies that came till now are very much clear that they don’t want any backlog or arrear and more than 80% of the companies have criteria of more than 60% in 10^th, 12^th and graduation.

    “Working hard is the key to success. But in the current scenario, eligibility matters a lot too.”

Nowadays it is very important to know about the eligibility criteria so that the students can prepare accordingly. As a fresher, to get placed from the college campus is a huge deal. Even companies cannot select everyone because they have to shortlist and hire onboard only those who really serving something to the company in an extraordinary manner.

I will be discussing a few important details regarding Placement Eligibility Criteria for MBA:

• The total number of students for the 2018-2020 batch is 240 and in which they are segregated in three respective specializations i.e. Finance (150), Marketing (10) and Human Resource (65).
• Since it is not possible to get every student placed, there will be always eligibility criteria set by the company.
• Any student who gets placed for 3 lakh will not be allowed to sit for 5 lakh so that other students should also get a chance as well.

Companies that came till now are very much clear that they don’t want any backlog or arrear and more than 80% of the companies have criteria of more than 60% in 10^th, 12^th and graduation. Since eligibility criteria were like this, half of the students did not get any chances to sit for the college placement drive.

• Companies like EY, KPMG, ANZ bank and HDFC life came for Finance specialization and they have criteria of 60% throughout 10^th, 12^th and graduation and even good marks in postgraduation till the last semester.
• Companies like Canara Hsbc, Square Yard, Ethnus Pvt Ltd, PhonePe , Apollo Munich, Induslnd Bank, Khimji Ramdas etc, came for Marketing specialization and in this half of them had 60% and above eligibility criteria, whereas remaining didn’t have any criteria.
• Companies like Proptiger and Arctech Information came for Human Resource specialization and they didn’t have any eligibility criteria.

So, the performance is not upto the mark if compared to other 2-tier/3-tier management colleges in Bangalore.  Other than eligibility criteria, they also look for good communication skills, should be knowledgeable in the technical field and should be hard working.

About the Author:

Sujaine Mishra is pursuing MBA in Human Resource and Marketing from Presidency College Bangalore. She is the head placement coordinator and a final year student of 2018-2020 batch.