IIM-Ahmedabad

Final Placement Report 2025

IIM-Ahmedabad Placement 2025: BCG top recruiter for PGP class

The placement process started with the Laterals Placement Process from January 6 to 21, targeting students with prior work experience for middle and senior management roles.

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has completed the final placement process for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) Class of 2025. The recruitment drive, conducted through the institute’s well-established cluster-cohort system, saw participation from a wide range of firms across multiple sectors, with all students securing job offers.

Among the prominent recruiters, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) emerged as the highest recruiter, making 35 offers in total. Accenture Strategy followed closely with 30 offers.

In the investment banking sector, Goldman Sachs led with nine offers, followed by Avendus Capital, which extended seven offers. The general management domain saw Tata Administrative Services making five offers, while GMR Group recruited four students of IIM Ahmedabad.

The placement cycle also recorded a surge in offers across niche consulting (22%), fintech (40%), cards and financial advisory (300%), advisory consulting (120%), retail B2B & B2C (400%), and consumer tech (800%), indicating a growing diversity in both student aspirations and recruiter demand.

The placement process started with the Laterals Placement Process from January 6 to 21, targeting students with prior work experience for middle and senior management roles. FinIQ Consulting was the top recruiter in this phase, making 11 offers, followed by Navi Technologies with 10 offers.

Following this, the Final Placements were conducted, where firms were grouped into cohorts based on their industry and core business. Students were allowed to apply to their “dream” companies, even after securing an offer, facilitating better alignment between their career aspirations and job roles. This year witnessed a 16% increase in students making dream applications compared to the previous cycle.

Consulting remained a preferred sector, with top recruiters including Accenture Strategy, Bain & Company, Deloitte, EY Parthenon, Kearney, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Deloitte, Oliver Wyman, PwC India, Strategy&, and Vector Consulting Group.

The investment banking and asset management space saw increased participation from firms such as Arpwood Capital, Bank of America, Citi Bank, Deutsche Bank, Elevation Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered Bank, and UBS.

Consumer goods and tech firms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Google, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Zomato also recruited actively. Notable hires in the fintech sector included American Express, Mastercard, and Navi Technologies. Enterprise tech firms such as Adobe, BrowserStack, Microsoft, and Qualcomm also extended offers.

Prof. Viswanath Pingali, Chairperson of the Placement Committee at IIMA, highlighted the resilience of the process despite global economic volatility. “Despite uncertainties in the market, IIMA has once again demonstrated its ability to attract top recruiters. Our students’ diverse skill sets and preparedness ensured a smooth placement process,” he said.

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Final Placement Report 2024

IIM-Ahmedabad registers 100% placement; 163 dream applications

This year, the Management Consulting cohort witnessed a decrease in the number of offers by 15 per cent vis-à-vis last year.

During the placement process for the MBA Class of 2024 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad that completed on February 12 Accenture and Boston Consulting Group made the most offers (including PPOs-pre placement offers) on the campus.

Accenture made the most offers at the end of the final placement process with 26 offers, followed by Boston Consulting Group with 23 offers.

Among the investment banks, Goldman Sachs was the largest recruiter, making 9 offers, closely followed by JP Morgan with 5 offers. In the general management domain, Adani made the highest number of offers – 10, closely followed by Essar Group, which rolled out 6 offers.

This year the management consulting cohort witnessed a decrease in the number of offers by 15 per cent vis-à-vis last year, while niche consulting witnessed a very significant increase. The roles offered by conglomerates also increased by 13 per cent.

Apart from this, Tata Consultancy Services was a prominent recruiter with consulting roles with 17 offers, followed by PwC with 9 offers. In the Laterals process, FinIQ made the highest number of offers – 11, closely followed by Navi – 9 offers. Other notable offers were HUL – 6 (all PPOs), Microsoft in Laterals – 6 offers, and Praxis Consulting – 7 offers.

This year, there were 23 new recruiters, including Abhinandan Lodha, Bluestone, Crompton Greaves, DE Shaw, Diageo, Elevation Capital, GDi Partners, HDFC ERGO, India Sotheby’s International Realty, Javis and Jindal Shadeed.

The placement process was conducted in two stages. The first was the laterals process, where firms interviewed students with prior work experience and offered them mid-level managerial positions. 28 firms participated from diverse sectors such as technology, banking, finance, consulting, analytics, etc.

In the second stage (finals) of the process, firms were grouped into cohorts based on their core business, and groups of cohorts were invited to campus across different clusters. As in previous years, students were provided the flexibility of making “dream” applications to firms of their choice in a subsequent cluster, even with an offer in hand.

There were 163 dream applications this year, which is 54 per cent higher than the previous year.
IIM Ahmedabad Placements conclude with 100% placement. 

Firms from different sectors and geographies participated in the process at IIM Ahmedabad through Laterals, Finals, and PPOs. Recruiters in the consulting domain included Arthur D. Little, Boston Consulting Group, Kearney, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Deloitte, Oliver Wyman, Praxis Global Alliance, PwC and Strategy and Middle East, among others.

Prominent recruiters in the Investment Banking and Markets and Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Asset Management space included Arpwood Capital, ARGA Investment, Avendus Capital, Barclays, DE Shaw, Elevation Capital, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Premji Invest, among others. Consumer goods, consumer services, consumer tech, and consumer electronics cohorts’ firms that made offers were Bluestone, Diageo, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, Loreal, Nestle, Phillip Morris International, United Breweries, and Wipro Consumer Care, among others.

The Conglomerate and Retail B2B & B2C cohorts saw participation like Abhinandan Lodha Groups, Adani Group, Aditya Birla Group, CK Birla Group, Essar, Jindal Shadeed and Tata Administrative Services. Some prominent recruiters in Enterprise Tech that gave offers were Cisco, HCL Tech, Javis, Microsoft, Media.Net and Newgen Software Technologies Ltd, etc. Firms participating in the Laterals process included Amazon, BrowserStack, Cisco, Coforge, Crompton Greaves, Edra Labs, EXL Service, FinIQ, Lodha Group, Livspace, Microsoft, Myntra, Navi, Piramal, PH Values and Wipro, among others.