Job offers aplenty at top business schools, but salary growth muted

Despite pandemic, nearly all students get placed after final rounds in top institutes

Job offers, led by management and strategy consulting firms, have been aplenty at the top business schools including the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) that have concluded their placement process so far.

However, the Covid-19 pandemic has left its imprint across campuses as they have posted a muted salary growth in the 2021 final placements over last year.

Consulting firms, followed by information technology (IT), finance and consumer goods, have continued to rule the roost at campus placements. Offers have, however, come along with either single-digit growth in average salaries or even a marginal dip in some institutes.

For instance,