IIM Calcutta Placement 2025: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Recruiters

Let’s consider the effect of graduation scores in summer and final placements separately.

Summer Placements:

 During these placements, the recruiters don’t have your MBA profile to judge you. So they have to take your graduation score, past academics, and other criteria into consideration. The summer placements are largely based on what the candidate has achieved till the time he joined his/her MBA program. This is exactly why placement committees request that students utilize the time before joining the institute to improve their resumes. You can upscale yourself with work experience, your education, your extra-curricular activities, etc.

Final Placements: 

During these placements, the students are almost about to complete their MBA. This means their profile has improved through various on and off-campus opportunities. These opportunities include research projects, work on industry projects, and summer internships. So now your CGPA in your MBA program and performance in these activities carry more importance than your undergraduate CGPA.

So we can say graduation scores matter in summer placements but not much in final placements.

The table below will give you a clear understanding of the placement stats for IIM Calcutta this year

IIM Calcutta Placement Report 2022

Every institute has its own shortcomings. If you choose IIM A/B/L or XLRI or FMS over IIM Calcutta, do you think you will not face any problems there? It’s just that their flaws haven’t been exposed yet. The fact that someone had the courage to come up and challenge IIM Calcutta is enough to prove its worth. The revelations were made by an IIM Calcutta student itself. This also proves the confidence level and leadership skills of these students are remarkable.

Besides, IIM Calcutta is among the best for a reason. Some casual claims cannot rain its reputation.

The two most important factors considered by recruiters during Placements at IIM ABC/FMS/XLRI are

1. Brand of UG College - SRCC/Old IITs/BITS/CA
2. High Academics - University RankHolders, City Toppers in Boards, or at least Department Rank Holders with 8.5+ in Engineering. 

MBA scores are of much importance during Final Placements but are Not available during summer placement.

If you have passed the above criteria, you are most likely to land any job. Still, I have segregated the roles that require work experience and the roles that do not.

Roles that require work experience 

• Operations/Supply chain/product management. 
• Any role will require work experience if your above 2 criteria are not up to the mark.

Roles that do not require work experience 

• Consulting
• Investment Banking
• PE/VC
• Marketing 
• Corporate Finance roles

So most of the jobs do not require work experience. Even if they do only non-engineering work experience is of value unless you want to go into Operations/Supply chain/product management.

IMI Kolkata students are placed in reputable firms in Kolkata, where the placement rate is high. The actual placement rate, however, may change from year to year and may also rely on elements like the general state of the economy and the industries in which the students are most interested. But for the year 2021-2022, it has offered 100 percent placements in its college.

Some of the prominent participating companies were JSW, Jaro, Nivea, RBI, Deloitte, ICICI, McVitie’s among many others. Top job profiles include Sales Manager, Senior Manager, Team Leader, Tax Consultant, and Business Analyst.

IIM Calcutta does not release exact figures regarding its placement and more so for its Executive programs.

According to the in-depth study of last placement reports, the profile of PGPX students at IIM Calcutta should be:

• Average work experience of around 8 years

• Work experience from IT sector

• Should have already been earning 30-40 LPA

This information is just based on assumptions and exceptions can take place.

When comparing the placements of the two, ISB and IIMs, the batch size hardly matters because both institutes market different products. The background and profiles of students of both institutes are too versatile to draw comparisons. If I roughly divide the ISB students and the kind of placement scenario they face then

• 90% of students get their dream jobs in the desired sector and company 
• 10% of the students get jobs that are below their expectations but not worse enough to forgo the offers

So the batch size does not matter here and ISB Hyderabad placements are themselves quite satisfactory.