Final student placements of the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) was over on Tuesday, with the premier B-school witnessing a hike in domestic and international salaries, as well as growing preference for enterpreneurship.
For the 235 students in the batch of 2007 eligible for placement a total of 86 firms had come to the IIM-A campus.
The highest number of offers were given by Lehman Brother (17 offers-14 acceptances), Merrill Lynch (15 offers-14 acceptances) and McKnisey (13 offers-12 acceptances).
"The highest international acceptances ranged from $2,25,000 to $3,00,000 and the highest domestic acceptacne ranged from Rs 60 lakhs (Rs 6 million) to Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million)," an IIM-A professor told reporters in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
This year, as many as 11 students of IIM-A
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have either opted out of placements or rejected job offers to start their own enterprise.