Average salary up at SPJIMR placements

Beating the market blues, final placements at the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) saw a marginal increase in average salary from Rs 17.2 lakh last year to Rs 18.2 lakh.Over 200 students were placed in companies including Amazon, TAS, Microsoft, HUL, P&G, Asian Paints, Mondelez, Colgate Palmolive, Dell, Citibank, General Electric, Flipkart, GSK and HSBC.

“One of the major achievements this year — we got 25 new companies in the campus including reputed corporate houses like Boston Consulting Group, Nestle and Godrej. In comparison to last year, we had lesser companies but better offers,” said Abbasali Gabula, deputy director (external relations), SPJIMR. Around 48% received pre-placement offers and interviews through their autumn internships. According to a statement by SPJIMR, 88% of the batch got placed at a salary of more than Rs 13 lakh and 80% of the batch got placed at a salary of 15 lakh and more, as against 70% students who received over Rs 15 lakh in 2014.