Ten of the largest companies have hired five or more students from IFMR-GSB. These include JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Societe Generale, Citi, Deloitte, IDFC First Bank, Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL Technologies.
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the economic slowdown, the IFMR Graduate School of Business (IFMR-GSB), now part of Krea University, witnessed a good placement season. The placement season saw a 10 per cent growth in the average salaries offered by the finance, consulting and technology giants.
With over 80 per cent of the students already placed in the ongoing placement season, finance, consulting and technology companies have hired over 87 per cent of the students already placed. The full batch comprises 175 students. In the past three years -- between 2017-18 and 2019-20 -- anywhere between 50 and 75 per cent of the students were placed in finance, consulting and technology companies in areas such as financial strategy, business management, risk management, data analytics, compliance and governance, and financial control.
As per the placement report released by the IFMR-GSB, one of the highlights of this year is that four of the Top 5 US Banks—JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi—have together hired over 40 students which is more than 25 per cent of the students placed till now.
Ten of the largest companies have hired five or more students from IFMR-GSB. These include JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Societe Generale, Citi, Deloitte, IDFC First Bank, Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL Technologies. Other marquee recruiters include Barclays, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, HDFC Bank, EY, KPMG and Crisil.
“Technologies such as analytics and artificial intelligence, cyber forensics, robotics and blockchain are redefining the financial services landscape and experiential learning is becoming a key component of learning in the new context”, said Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, pro-vice-chancellor for professional learning at Krea University.
He added IFMR-GSB is increasingly becoming the go-to institution for students wanting to build a career in technology-driven financial services in areas spanning strategy, operations, marketing, core finance as well as fintech and techfin.
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