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The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) has released its audited placement report for the MBA-PGP Class of 2025, “reaffirming recruiter confidence in the institute’s talent pool” even amid a sluggish hiring environment across business schools.
According to the audited report of the ‘Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), the mean salary stood at Rs 35.50 lakh per annum, while the median salary was Rs 34.59 lakh per annum. Both figures mark an improvement from the previous year, underscoring the strong demand for IIMA graduates, an institute statement released in this regard said.
Students, IIM Ahmedabad said, were given full flexibility to reject or hold offers and continue to sit for other companies regardless of any previous offers received. “This ensured students had the opportunity to pursue the best possible match for their aspirations, a principle central to IIMA’s placement process,” it added.
As per the IIM Ahmedabad report, as many as 178 firms participated with around 261 different roles in the placement process in 2025. In the Final placements, firms that made the most offers on campus included Boston Consulting Group, Accenture Strategy, American Express Bain & Co and McKinsey & Company, the report said.
“The success of the placement process at IIM Ahmedabad is a direct result of our dedication to achieving the perfect student-recruiter fit, which is crucial in today’s dynamic job market,” said Atharva Kapadnis, Recruitment Secretary of MBA-PGP 2025.
Professor Viswanath Pingali, Chairperson, Placement, IIMA, added that the institute’s emphasis on recruiter-recruitee alignment and its commitment to transparent, third-party audited placement data have helped maintain trust.
Unlike many B-schools that report Cost to Company (CTC), IIMA’s placement data is based on Maximum Earning Potential (MEP), reflecting actual first-year cash compensation and providing a student-centric view of earning potential, the institute added, saying that unlike CTC, which is often inflated by non-cash components like insurance premiums, gratuity, or notional bonuses, MEP represents the actual cash compensation a student is eligible to earn in the first year.
IIM Ahmedabad was the first Indian management institute to adopt audited placement reporting through the IPRS back in 2011, a practice it continues to follow rigorously.
