The Final Placement for the one year MBA (PGPM) Class of 2019 at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai saw 100% placement with the students getting an average CTC of Rs 13.1 Lakh per Annum (LPA) and the highest domestic CTC, offered by a multinational company, at Rs 29 LPA.   

Great Lakes 2019 Batch PGPM Placement

Great Lakes said a total of 362 companies, including 15 new recruiters, participated in the campus placement process that concluded on February 21, 2019.

The new recruiters included

• AbInbev
• Arvind Lifestyles
• Bristlecone
• Capgemini
• Gartner
• Honeywell
• India Cements
• Kals Group
• United Health Group 
• Zolo Stays

Domain-wise Offers

The maximum number of roles were offered in

• Technology Consulting (33%)
• Analytics (15%)
• Sales & Marketing (14%)
• Business & Strategy Consulting (11%)
• Finance (9%)
• Digital (8%)
• Operations (5%) 
• Project/Product Management (5%).

Among the recruiters, TCS, Deloitte US & India, Accenture and HCL made the maximum offers.

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Sector-wise Offers

Students were offered coveted roles in Analytics, BFSI, IT/ITES, Consulting, E-commerce, Technology Consulting, FMCG and Product.

IT/ITES (37%) was the largest recruiting sector followed by

• Tech Consulting (23%)
• Business Consulting (22%)
• BFSI (5%)

Recruiters Details

Recruiters who made maximum offers 

• TCS
• Deloitte US & India
• Accenture
• HCL

Other companies that participated in the placement

• Aditya Birla Capital
• ADP
• Amazon
• Barclays
• Cognizant
• Capgemini
• Deloitte
• EY
• Gartner
• HCL
• Honeywell
• HSBC
• Infosys
• ITC Infotech
• L&T Infotech
• Mentis
• MuSigma
• TCS
• Virtusa
• ZS Associates

Recruiters In Analytics

• Musigma
• Tiger Analytics
• Fractal Analytics
• Gain Insights
• i2Decisions

Recruiters in BFSI

• Barclays
• HSBC
• Aditya Birla Capital
• CAMS Online 
• WeInvest 

Recruiters in Consulting

•  Accenture
• Deloitte US
• Deloitte India
• EY
• ZS Associates
• Bristlecone
• Brillio
• Cartesian Consulting 

Recruiters in E-Commerce

• Amazon
• Zolo Stays and Moglix.

Recruiters in IT/ITES 

• Accenture
• Cognizant
• TCS
• Infosys
• Capgemini
• Honeywell
• L & T Infotech
• ITC Infotech
• Brillio
• HCL Technologies
• Hexaware
• Quest Global
• Virtusa
• Mindtree 

Recruiters in Production

• ADP
• Mentis
• Bizongo

Others (FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Research) 

• AbInbev
• KALS Group
• United Health Group
• India Cements
• Gartner
• Arvind Lifestyles

Class Profile

The PGPM Class 2018-19 had 73% male and 27% female representation. In terms of work experience

•  2 to 3 years (44%)
•  3 to 4 years (41%)
•  4 to 5 years (15%)

In Undergraduate specialization

• Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation & Telecom (48%)
• Computer Science (27%)
• Mechanical, Metallurgical & Materials (14%)
•  Others (includes Industrial engineering, Metallurgy, manufacturing & Material Science, Power Arts & Humanities, Advertising, Economics, HR, Marketing, Mass Media, Math, Physics) (7%)
• Art, Humanities & Science (4%)

In terms of industry diversity

• IT/ITES (72%)
• Construction & Manufacturing (8%)
• FMCG, Consumer Durables, Consulting & Healthcare (6%)
• Others (5%)
• Engineering Services, Energy/Oil and Gas & Telecom (5%)
• BFSI (4%)

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