IIT Kanpur MBA Blog

”Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.” With these words from Swami Vivekananda, we present the March-April 2016 edition of our MBA magazine Avant-Garde. Happy summers  Team Avant Garde K Prakash Raju Manpreet Singh Utkarsh Maurya Catch up with the happenings in the campus by clicking on the link: https://issuu.com/avantgarde.mbaiitk/docs/avant_garde_march-april/1?e=0

The marketing domain has topped the  MBA   summer placements at the premier Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur). Almost 50 per cent of the 2015-17 batch students participating in the summer placement process were offered internships in marketing by brands, including Lava, Godrej, Nielson, ACC and Idea Cellular. The domains of consulting & strategy and operations followed next with 14 per cent each of the offers made to students. Analytics and finance accounted for 11 per cent and 9 per cent respectively of the total offers made during the summer placements to the MBA students. IIT-K witnessed participation from 30 companies. Around 20 percent of the students bagged multiple offers during the process. The first time recruiters at the MBA summer placements included marquee names, such as Godrej, ACC, Indiamart, Nielsen, Arvind Mills and Idea. Other key recruiters were Boeing, Bharat Petroleum, Tata Motors,Policy Bazaar and Deloitte....

Everything eventually ends- this is the only universal truth. Like the last days of spring, the final page of a great novel or the climax of a beautiful movie, it's a moment that gives us great joy as well as sorrow. Today was one of those days. Today you bid farewell to all that was familiar and venture forth into an unexplored world with limitless possibilities. The time you spent here has given you all many bittersweet memories that you will cherish for years to come. Let this day not mark the end, but the beginning to the wonderful future that awaits you all. Adieu!!