| It is for the first time that international companies have conducted campus interviews at MICA, including six offers from the Middle East and South East Asia. |
| The highest international salary of 7,500 dirham (about 12 lakh) has been bagged by Praveen Vedamuthu, who will join Dubai based razor blade maker Supermax. Praveen, who hails from Mumbai graduated in Stattistics from Mumbai University. |
| He has worked for four years before joinging PGPCM. |
| The highest domestic package of 9.04 lakh has been offered by Proctor and Gamble to Rashi Mittal as a associate manager "" public relations. |
| The package is an increase of about a lakh from last year. |
| "Prior to MICA I have worked with Prahlad Kakkad and other advertising firms." |
| More than 50 companies made nearly 105 offers to the batch of 60 students. |
| The average salary offered for the batch of 2006 was Rs.6.47 lakhs annually, a jump of nearly 60 per cent. |
| Vikram Aditya, 24, who has bagged an offer from a leading newspaper with a salary package of Rs 8 lakh, said, "While working with a software company as a business development officer I was exposed to marketing and I got interested in brand management which is one of the major concentration of the course." |
| "Although, there were offers from international companies last year, this is the first year they have come for official placemment," Vipin Nair, media interface of MICA told Business Standard. |
| Apart from traditional recruiters like Leo Burnett, TNS, Mudra and Starcom, major companies from diverse fields including Ernst & Young, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Super Max, Fractal, Prudential, Maruti, Tata, Titan, Citi Financial and Hutch came to MICA. |
| Advertising companies also showed a improvement in job profiles and pay packets. |
| Most of the students, however, are being selected as trainees by the companies. |
| "I will be joining thecompany as a managment traniee in marketing. Moreover, I also received an offer from another overseas company," said Praveen. |
| The average salary offered as stipend for summer placements in 2006 touched Rs 9,500, a substantial increase over the last year. |
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