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Altogether 51 students attracted recruiters including Fortune 500 companies in the recently concluded internship placements at the second batch (2016- 2018) of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) programme by IIM Calcutta.
The members of the batch, with varied professional profiles, were offered an average monthly stipend of Rs 92,447 from the domestic recruiters with the highest stipend being offered Rs 1,25,000, an IIM-C statement said today.
International recruiters offered an average monthly stipend of Rs 97,804 and the highest stipend offered stood at Rs 2,45,000.
The recruiters included companies like Walmart Labs, American Express, MasterCard, Dunia Finance, Mitsubishi Fuso, and Truenorth.
In the consulting domain, the recruiters are PwC, Ernst & Young, Alvarez & Marsal and others, the statement said.
Students were also hired by American Express, Yes Bank and MasterCard in financial services segment, while companies like DE Shaw and Barclays offered internships to them in financial research segment.
Interns were hired by companies like Walmart Labs and Amazon in the technology space, and by FMCG majors like ITC and Johnson & Johnson.
The PGDBA is a unique curriculum covering statistics, technology and business, the three pillars of analytics.
This programme is designed by three premier institutes of West Bengal IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), the statement said.
