GIBS Business School Placement

As a new PGDM student at GIBS, the faculty will not only teach you new ideas and concepts but also help you get ready for placement opportunities. Your professors use a wide variety of like case studies, Live Projects, and simulation-based learning within the curriculum. These methods aid you to gain hands-on experience using the skills you taught during class to solve real-world business issues. To further prepare you for placement opportunities, the faculty at GIBS also routinely invite industry experts, alumni of GIBS, and Corporate Leaders to speak to you during guest lectures, and serve as mentors or panel participants during an industry panel discussion. By sharing the experience of being an industry leader, and providing insights into what the current trends are on recruitment practices and the skills that are needed in today's workplace. Furthermore, the faculty will assist you with building your resume, mapping your skills, practicing mock interviews and honing your presentation skills so that when the time comes for placement opportunities you will have developed the confidence and skills that you need to be successful and to meet the expectations of Recruiters.

At GIBS, students interact with peers from around the world while participating in a wide range of cultural, management, and athletics activities throughout the course of the academic year. On campus, a variety of annual cultural festivals take place, such as Talent Shows, Festival Celebrations, Open Mic Nights, and Theme Days. These provide an opportunity for students to express themselves creatively.

On the management side, there are annual business conclaves, management fests, case study competitions, quizzes and workshops led by industry experts; alumni interactions; and start-up pitch sessions and industrial visits that enhance practical learning.

For athletics and wellness, GIBS offers numerous opportunities for students to connect with their peers, including participating in the annual Sports Meet, inter-batch tournaments, outdoor activities (e.g., trekking), and indoor/outdoor games (e.g., table tennis, basketball, badminton, football, etc.). Students can also participate in Fitness Challenges, Yoga classes, and various other Recreational Activities.

Taken together, these events create opportunity for Holistic Development by building Leadership Skills, Teamwork, Confidence and a Strong Sense of Community Throughout the Academic Year.

Yes, The GIBS Business School faculty members have a good reputation for mentoring and advising their students when it comes to the people that they will work with during their internship, hands-on activities in class, and what to do after the conclusion of their degree from the GIBS Business School. In addition to teaching the principles of what the students are learning in class, the GIBS Faculty members also guide each of the students in the process of identifying their future internship opportunities, and selecting and executing projects, and also assist each student in preparation for creating their resumes, cover letters, and interview preparation through one-on-one personal guidance. GIBS Faculty members also provide support for students identifying programs or preparation strategies for the exams (GRE or GMAT), and the written components of the application process (application essay), and identifying the best universities to apply to. The mentorship-driven approach that is provided at GIBS Business School gives each of the students the support they need for gaining practical experience and also developing a strategy for achieving their long-term future goals, whether they are academic or professional.

Industry Exposure at GIBS Business School is integrated into the curriculum as a continuous and structured part of instruction, rather than just one event. GIBS conducts the following types of activities to keep students connected with industry:

• Guest Speaker Series (also called Corporate Talks) are held on average every month to every other month throughout the term to bring industry leaders (many of whom are HR professionals) into campus as speakers to give Motivating Talks and share their insights about the industries they represent.
• Industry visits (multiple visits scheduled and organised each semester) allow students to gain first-hand knowledge of the operation of businesses in different industries, i.e. manufacturing, logistics, finance, and IT. These visits offer students a better understanding of the Industry from an operational perspective.
• Alumni Sessions & Webinars (held regularly by the GIBS alumni who return to campus for career events to share their career experiences) occur most frequently prior to placement and internship activities, during which time alumni are able to inform students of the expectations they had when they entered the workforce and give advice about how best to prepare for interviews.

The GIBS Business School typically has an expected percentiles minimum for entrance exams (for admission to PGDM Programs), although these are, on average, the minimum percentiles expected of new applicants every year (country-wide) and therefore could change from year to year based on the applicant pool and “admissions trends”:

CAT/XAT/ATMA: a minimum percentile of around 60 is competitive for applicants to be shortlisted.

MAT: about a 60-64 percentile is considered a minimum acceptable score for an applicant in the general category.

CMAT: a minimum percentile of around 70 or higher.

There is no fixed or official cutoff published by GIBS, but it is important to note that GIBS uses a holistic admissions process, where scores from entrance exams are only one part of an applicant's total score, along with their GPA and performance during the interview and group discussion; therefore, meeting the above percentiles does increase an applicant's chance of being accepted to GIBS, but does not assure acceptance.

Yes — faculty at GIBS Bangalore do that a lot. In most of my classes, instead of just explaining a concept from a book, teachers will pull up real examples from companies, recent business news, or actual situations their contacts have seen in the industry. It makes the session feel less like memorizing and more like learning how things really work.

For example, in marketing class, a topic like “brand positioning” might be explained using a case from a well-known brand campaign, and in finance class, a theory might be linked to how actual companies analyse their numbers. It makes concepts stick better because you can visualize them in real business settings.