IIM LUCKNOW

Established in 1984, IIM Lucknow is one of the premier institutes for Business Management in India. The Institute offers various Management programs & provides a high degree of quality in its Management Courses, with its alumni holding very influential positions within the Industry. Some of its notable alumni include Amitabh Thakur, Rajdeep Grewal, Gayatri Iyer, etc. Amongst the 20 IIM’s, it is said to be the 4th best IIM & an Institute which MBA aspirants highly target within the country.

COURSES OFFERED

• The Courses Offered by IIM Lucknow are listed below:
• Post Graduate Programme in Management
• Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management
• The Working Managers’ Programme
• International Programme in Management for Executives
• Fellow Program in Management
• Executive Fellow Programme in Management

Moreover, different programs have different eligibility criteria’s and can be individually checked on their website:  http://www.iiml.ac.in/

HOW TO SECURE ADMISSION IN IIML

For IIM Lucknow’s PGP in Management Programme, the scores of CAT examination is considered. 

The following are the weightages for various components in IIM Lucknow’s Shortlisting Procedure:

• CAT Score: 60%
• 12th Marks: 10%
• Graduation Marks: 10%
• Work Experience: 10%
• Academic Diversity: 5%
• Gender Diversity: 5%

Additionally, must note that those who don’t have that great profile can still target a shortlist at IIM Lucknow by securing good marks in the CAT examination as the weightage to the CAT examination is 60% in the shortlisting round for IIM Lucknow.

Final Selection Round:

The following are the parameters and their weightages during the WAT/PI Stage:

• CAT Score: 30%
• 12th Marks: 5%
• Graduation Marks: 5%
• Work Experience: 5%
• Academic/Gender Diversity: 5%
• WAT: 10%
• PI: 40%

However, to be eligible for the merit list it is mandatory to score a minimum 12/40 marks in the PI round.

PLACEMENTS

For the Batch of 2018-20, the recruitment drive saw more than 140 domestic and international recruiters. These firms' participation also marked the ascent of IIM Lucknow as a preferred recruitment destination for consulting, finance, operations, product management, and marketing roles in the country. 

Top segments based on the roles offered:

Strategy/Consulting, Operations/IT, Finance, General Management and Sales & Marketing. The remaining offers were from market research, analytics, business development, digital marketing & supply chain among others.

Segment Wise Placements are as follows:

• Strategy/Consulting: 32%
• Operations/IT: 24%
• Finance: 19%
• General Management: 13%
• Sales/Marketing: 12%
  

Some of the top recruiters across Different Sectors:

Accenture, Amazon, American Express, Asian Paints, A.T. Kearney, Avendus Capital, Axis Capital, Bain & Co., Citi, Colgate Palmolive, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, ICICI Bank, Investec, ITC, JDA Software, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., KPMG, Landmark Group, MasterCard, McKinsey & Co., Microsoft, Nestle, Ola, P&G, PwC, Reliance Jio, Royal Bank of Scotland, RPG Group, Star India, Standard Chartered Bank, TAS, The Boston Consulting Group and Uber.

Companies participated for the First time: 

More than 25 companies, including Apparel Group, Bosch, Ernst & Young (MENA), FIITJEE, FSS, Indigo, JCB India, Magicbricks.com, ONGC, Power Finance Corporation, Reliance Jio, SAIF Partners, Transsion and Wells Fargo.

Companies offered International Profiles are:

Companies such as Apparel Group, Ernst & Young, RPG Group, Landmark Group, Bosch, Standard Chartered Bank and Tolaram Group 

Furthermore, for the 2018-20 Batch for IIM Lucknow, the Mean CTC stood at 24.25 LPA & Median CTC at 23 LPA 

For further details on placements, please view: http://www.iiml.ac.in/placement-reports

Contribution by Nikhil Jain, MBA student at DFS

Editing by Rashmi Rangari, Research Analyst