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Global brands, MNCs, IPL team offer summer internship to IIM-K students
Global brands, MNCs, IPL team offer summer internship to IIM-K students
PTI
First Published: Tue, Nov 08 2011. 04 49 PM IST
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Updated: Tue, Nov 08 2011. 04 49 PM IST
Kochi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode on Tuesday said over 100 firms, including global power house brands like Deutche bank, Citibank, softdrinks majors, multi- national companies (MNC) and even a top tier Indian Premier League (IPL) team, have made summer internship offers to 343 students of its flagship post graduate programme.
In the two year programme, after the first year, every student has to undertake 8 week internship in an organization. This is the first time that all the students have received offers with stipends, professor G. Sridhar, placement chairperson, told the news agency.
The institute said it has successfully completed the summer placements process for the 15th batch of the PGP. The process saw 100 firms, including over 35 new companies participating. Many of the firms made a record number of offers, the highest over several years, reaffirming the status of the college as a premier institution of global repute, he said.
Management students. Photo: Bloomberg
The first-time recruiters were impressed by the academic excellence and rigor of the curriculum and the diverse talent pool available at IIM Kozhikode. One of India’s most admired and trusted company that participated for the first time, was amazed by the quality of students and went ahead to make the largest number of offers in their history of