IIM Bangalore Secures 100% Summer Placements for 608 Students

IIM Bangalore achieves 100% summer placements for its 2026–28 PGP and PGPBA batches, with 608 students receiving offers from 128 organisations and a median monthly stipend of ₹2 lakh.

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore) ensures that its Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics (PGPBA) batches 2026-28 have a 100 percent summer placement ratio. This means that all the 608 participating candidates are offered internships by 128 companies during the placement process conducted from October 26 to 29, 2026.

Consulting is found to be the biggest recruiting sector, as it gives out 308 offers, which make up 50.7 percent of the total number of offers. Other sectors include consulting, finance, banking, technology, product management, sales and marketing, general management, and analytics. The median and average stipends for the 608 participating students are ₹2 lakh and ₹1.95 lakh, respectively.

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Management consulting firms offer 308 job openings from 22 firms. Accenture Strategy leads in recruiting 123 job offers. Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, EY Global Delivery Services, EY-Parthenon and Kearney each provide 23 and 19 offers respectively.

McKinsey & Company, Deloitte, Alvarez & Marsal and Oliver Wyman are some other companies participating in the recruitment process. Due to good participation by consulting firms, this becomes the leading industry among others in summer placements.

There is a marked increase in technology recruitment, with the number of hires from top technology organizations doubling when contrasted with the last placement round. The AI, IT & Technology category comprises 51 offers from 21 organizations. Microsoft and Albertsons Companies offer six offers each, whereas Google and Nutanix have offered four offers each. Others in the recruiting companies include Adobe, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce and Samsung Electronics.

The finance, banking and investment organization have made 74 offers via 33 organizations. Leading among these is Goldman Sachs, which has offered eight offers, while Citibank and Deutsche Bank have offered five each. Bank of America, Barclays, Blackstone, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and UBS are among those involved in the recruiting process.

First-timers make up an estimated 40% of the organizations participating in the placement process. Recruitment activities for Indian business conglomerates also go up by 33% when compared to last year’s recruitment process. Twelve organizations offer 40 placements each, some of which are from Adani Group, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra Group, Reliance Industries, and Tata Administrative Services.

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Recruitment in other areas includes e-commerce, payment, fintech and retail which altogether provide 46 placements. Fast-moving consumer goods give 43 offers, whereas manufacturing, construction, energy and infrastructure organizations provide 25 offers each. Healthcare, pharmaceutical, entertainment and edutech organizations account for 21 offers.

This recruitment process shows that recruitment activities from organizations have come from not only existing but also new areas of business. This will help students gain practical experience in consulting, finance and other managerial areas.