Over the years symbiosis university has had a lot of buisness ideas. One of them was starting a B - School which imparts specialisation in Telecom management. Atleast, I dont know about any other institutte which offers such a course. (In case you know, do drop a line) But looking at the placement trends I dont think this is one idea which has lived up to the expetations. The following graphic gives you a much better idea about what I am tryin to say.

On stand alone basis these numbers are not all that bad. But a quick comparision of these numbers with that of newer B schools of SIU will put things in perspective. Both SIIB and SIOM are newer colleges and are performing exceptionally well. But there is a silver lining as far as SITM is concerned.Look at the trends for last three years, average salary has been growing at a steady pace. Maximum salaries have increased from 6.6 (Class of 2006) to 7.5 lakhs (Class of 2007) p.a. to 9.0 Lakhs p.a. for class of 2008.

SITM Placements 2008
You will be glad to know that this year too we have achieved 100% placement. Infact our placement was over on DAY ZERO that is on 10th december 2007. The average pay package was 6.7 lacs pa and highest salary offered was 9.0 lacs pa. The esteemed recruiters included Virgin Mobile, IBM, Wipro Technologies, Voda Phone, Ernst & Young, Infosys, Sify, VSNl, HCL Technologies to name of few.
Source : A mailer received by aspirants.SITM website doesnt talk about this data.


Almost every company worth its salt in telecom sector visits SITM.
And considering the flood of new entrants in the sector overall
performance of SITM pass outs should get better.

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With retail and manufacturing boom hitting India all of a sudden there was shortage of skilled managers in this domain. This shortage formed the very basis of SIOM's vision. SIOM was established in year 2005 with a vision to prepare operations manager who had in depth knowledge of managing logistics and enhancing productivity. First batch of SIOM passed out in year 2007 and boy what response did they get from industry. The sectrol split below shows how industry opened its gates for this batch.

In terms of package class of 2007 got a median salary of 5.5 lakhs which is not bad considering it was just the first batch. Next bacth got even better response. Highest salray rose 20% and median also saw a 15% increase. More importantly the average salary also rose close to 20% indicating the overall and more spread out rise in salary packages. This link has some indepth analysis of placement trends.
Of all the B schools that I have come across, SIOM is probably the only one which is so transparent as far as placements are concerned. This gives a lot more credibility to SIOM's claims. Considering, only two batches have passed out and we are already seeing some good profiles and fat pay packages is testimony to the fact that NITIE's or SP Jains or IIM's dominance in operations arena is seriously under threat.
Note : -SIOM's GD PI shortlist for year 2008 is expected on 28th. The cutoffs are much much lower as compared to some of the premier colleges, but then the college is for engineer's only.

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With SIIB GD PI shortlist for admissions 2008 expected tommorow, I thought I will do some research on how SIIB is performing in placements arena. Here is what I could digg.

SIIB : Placement trends



SIIB : Recruiting trends


SIIB GD PI shortlist after 4 pm on 22nd January. Read this for last years methodology.

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Two things that matter most while contemplating about a B-school are Placement scene and profiles offered to student. Following are some of the facts related to GIM, ribandar.

Placements at GIM, Ribandar
GIM has managed to clock some real impressive growth when it comes to placements. GIM's placements are definately not comparable to the IIM's, XLRI, FMS, NITIE etc but these colleges are in a different league. So, no point comparing GIM with them . Infact GIM has been grwoing at a breakneck speed. Picture this, XAT Cutoffs for GIM admissions 2005 were 80%ile, admissions 2006 had it at 84%ile, last year it was 90.1%ile and this year it will most probably will be in the range of 92~93%ile. This increase clearly indicates a trend, better student profiles hence better placements.
Average salary offered during Placements 2005 was 3.75 lakhs, Next year it was 5.5 lakhs p.a, Last year it rose to 6.41 lakhs p.a. and Placements 2008 saw average salaries rising to 7.4 lakhs p.a. Maximum salary offered was 9 lakhs p.a. in year 2007 and 9.5 lakhs p.a. in placements 2008.

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