XIMB placements

B-SCHOOL BEAT

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), recently completed its campus placement process. This year, the highest lateral offer was $ 84,000 or Rs 36.82 lakh, made by US-based technology firm Sierra Atlantic.

Wipro Technologies made the next highest offer of Rs 9 lakh, followed by HSBC AMC's Rs 7.4 lakh. The highest fresher offers were made by Marico Industries and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd "" Rs 7.4 lakh and Rs 7.03 lakh, respectively. The average salary this year was Rs 5.24 lakh, compared to last year's Rs 4.65 lakh.

Each student got approximately 1.75 offers, compared to 1.32 last year. Infosys made the maximum offers (16), followed by TCS and Kotak Bank (nine each) and Polaris (six); IDBI Bank, Cavin Kare, Wipro Technologies, Ramco, A V Birla Group, Citibank, Satyam and Sierra Atlantic made five offers each.

NITIE placements

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai also completed its placement process for its MBA course. About 140 offers were made by some 65 companies; 85 students were recruited through the process.

Infosys made the maximum offers (23), followed by Satyam (14), IBM (12), Wipro (12), Barclays Capital (eight), ICICI Bank (seven) and P&G and Asian Paints (six each). Students with pre-MBA work-experience were made the highest lateral offers.

WIM admissions

Welingkar Institute of Management (WIM) has invited applications for its two-year full-time post-graduate diploma course in business management (PGDBM) and e-business (PGPe-biz).

This year, WIM will accept only Common Admission Test (CAT) (November 21, 2004) scores. Application forms will be available until April 1, while the last date for submission of forms is April 10.

The forms are available at WIM, Mumbai and Bangalore, select branches of State Bank of India and all IMS centres. Candidates can also apply online at www.welingkar.org. Contact: (022) 24178300.