BITS Pilani MBA Placements 2019: Average salary at Rs.9.18 LPA; Accenture, Cognizant, Bridgestone, HSBC, ITC among top recruiters

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani MBA Placement 2019 concluded on high notes with high average and median salary. Average salary recorded in Placement 2019 at BITS Pilani stood at Rs.9.18 LPA while the highest salary was Rs.15 LPA. More than 40 recruiters made placement offers to larger batch of 77 participating students in placement. 

BITS Pilani MBA Placements: Highlights

• Average Salary: Rs.9.18 LPA
• Highest Salary: Rs.15 LPA
• Batch size: 77 students
• Top Recruiters: Bridgestone, HSBC, ITC, Bosch, Toyota, CISCO, Accenture, Cognizant, JSW, KPMG

Roles Offered
Students from the Department of Management are recruited by various industries in roles like Domain Specialist, Management Trainee, Business Consultant, Subject Matter Expert, Business Analyst, Business Development, Product Manager, Engagement Partner, Sales Manager, Research Analyst, Marketing Strategist, Operations Manager, Bidding Specialist, Business Associate among others.

Key Placement Trends
During the last three years BITS Pilani has recorded good placement for its MBA programme. Key placement trends are as below:

Source: BITS Pilani Management Placement Statistics 

Top Recruiters at BITS Pilani
In the last three years, 40 companies have recruited students from the Department of Management, BITS Pilani. In the same duration, 17 companies extended placement offers to students from the Department of Management who worked as interns during Practice School-2 in these companies.

Some of the top recruiters include Bridgestone, HSBC, ITC, Bigbazar, Bosch, Taj Hotels, Toyota, CISCO, Accenture, Cognizant, JSW, Indiamart, Bajaj Allianz, SIEMENS,Mahindra Finance, Tata Steel, Future Generali, UBS, KPMG, Zomato, Nayara, CGI, Saint Gobain, netcore, Syngene, Maybank, RBI,

Companies from the IT industry, Banking and Financial Services, Consulting, Retail, Marketing Research, Tele-services, E-Commerce, Automobile and Aerospace, Retail, Healthcare recruited the students in large numbers

BITS Pilani Management Department: Practice School
Practice School (PS) is an educational innovation seeking to link industry experience with university instruction. PS creates the required setting for experiential and cooperative learning and education, by providing students with an opportunity to work on relevant assignments under the guidance of professional experts and the supervision of faculty members, following a structured rigorous program. Consequently, Practice School serves as a platform that facilitates and promotes partnership and intellectual exchange between academia and industry.

Average stipend offered to the 2017-19 batch of students during their 6 months' Practice School internship was Rs. 28,000 per month (approx.). In the last three years, students from the Department of Management have done their 6 months' Practice School internship in more than 50 companies.

Department of Management DoM, BITS Pilani is positioning itself amongst the country's premier management institutes. Over the past few years, our interface with the business world has been accelerated. The corporate world offers placement on the quality of management education that DoM, BITS Pilani imparts.

The students at DoM, BITS Pilani appear for final placements during their third semester (between October to December), this is the time period between which most of the students generally get placed. In the fourth semester, the students are required to take-up a structured and an evaluative internship for a period of 6 months as part of the Practice school (PS). During this time, the students work on real-time projects in domains of their interest. Usually, the students who are placed before December essentially undergo their Practice School in the companies that they are selected in.

The Practice School Division (PSD) of the institute allots PS stations to rest of the students who often get Placement Offers (POs) upon the completion of the Practice School (PS).

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani is an all-India Institute for higher education. Established in the year 1971, the department of Management initially offered the two year Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme but later in 1973, when the institute created an integrated educational structure, MBA evolved into the integrated first degree programme- Master of Management Studies (MMS)- which is a blend of engineering and management.

This programme was successfully offered for a time period of three decades. Based on the industrial demands, the course was restructured as MBA in the year 2006. Management education at BITS Pilani builds a basic framework of qualitative, quantitative, analytical, strategic and problem solving skills. The pedagogy is specially designed to create a healthy learning environment, a blend of theoretical concepts and practical nuances. An optimal mix of learning methods ensures a holistic personality development of the students as well.

BITS Pilani is a Deemed to be University offering UG, PG and PhD programmes to over 15,000 students across its campuses in Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, and Dubai. The Institute has been recently granted the “Institution of Eminence” tag by MHRD, Govt. of India. It is also India’s highest ranked non-Government Institute as declared in QS BRICS, QS Asia, and QS India 2019. At present, MBA programme is not offered at Goa or Hyderabad campuses.

BITS Pilani MBA is consistently ranked among the best in the country by various survey reports. The latest survey done by Outlook India ranks the BITS Pilani MBA program in the top 20 in India. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) report 2019 has ranked BITS Pilani among the top 25 universities in the country. 

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