The process attracted 54 companies, as opposed to 23 last year, and made 101 offers to 53 participating students. The average salary of individual offers stood at Rs 17.8 lakhs (an increase of close to 20% from previous year), while the highest domestic offer was Rs 33.8 lakhs and the average of international offers was USD 130,000 (an increase of 30%).

XLRI says that sponsored candidates have also got elevated roles and middle/senior management responsibilities from their parent companies.

The conference will address several issues like rising global competition, role of corporations and survival strategies for corporates.
Talking about the conference theme, Dr D P Goyal, Director of IME says, Impact of IT can be felt on business process, E-commerce and Business Intelligence. Value of Information Technologies has evolved in business organization from a status symbol to that of a back bone. Use of such tools and technologies and their suitability for business advantage, rather sustenance has always been an area of concern.

Instead, an emerging tribe of MBA- Entrepreneurs is emerging who under go the best management training at B-schools, and leverage it to pursue their dreams. This year, almost all campuses that MBAUniverse.com Placement Report 2008 surveyed, graduates have opted to take the road less travelled. Interestingly, B-schools are supporting and promoting this trend wholeheartedly.

They are putting more and more emphasis to Job Profiles on offer, and even choosing lesser salary for a better job content. Corporates, on their part, are tailoring specific profiles and positions to lure whiz-kids. This is a significant trend emerging from the MBAUniverse.com MBA Placement Report 2008 that surveyed top 20 Indian B-schools.

Approximately 40 % of graduates chose financial services and banking sector over marketing, operations or general management jobs.
At IIM-A, put together, financial services jobs accounted for almost 45% of jobs accepted. Consulting sector lured a high 31% of IIM-A graduates. Some of the major recruiter from the sector included Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch amongst others. Twelve students choose to join private equity players like Carlyle Group.

At IIM-C, a large 34% of the batch opted for jobs in the financial sector.

And thats a big jump! The trend cuts across majority of leading B-schools. Graduates in many institutes have in fact got even higher salary increases.

In the last few weeks, all six Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) have decided to raise the fees for their Post Graduate Programme (PGP), albeit with varying degrees. Other B-schools of repute too are increasing their fees. MBAUniverse.com presents a review of the new fees scenario.

This is the first of its kind in the country where three Business Schools together offer a Ph.D programme. These institutes are: School of Business Management, NMIMS University, Mumbai, T.A.Pai Management Institute, Manipal and Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore.