The document provides information about the MBA program at Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) at IIT Kharagpur. VGSoM is ranked among the top B-schools in India and offers flagship MBA and PGDM programs. It has world-class faculty, competitive admission process, strong industry interaction, and placement support. Past recruiters include top companies and the average salary for placements is over 11 LPA.

1. MBA @ IIT Kharagpur
Why Recruit @ VGSoM
Vinod Gupta School of Management

2. VGSoM in Rankings
Ranked 8th in the national B-School rankings by Rediff & Career360.
Ranked 12th Best Government B- School by the prestigious Wall Street
Journal.
Winner of Asia's Best B-School Leadership Award by CMO council.
Ranked 11th in the Top Government B school, 15th in recruiters
perception & 9th in Infrastructure and facilities by Outlook - MDRA 2011
VGSoM featured in the Top 15 Business Schools in OPEN Magazine and is
ranked among the top 20 B-Schools by Business World magazine.
Many times winner of the ‘Best B-School in East’ award.

3. Advantage VGSoM @ IIT Kharagpur
 Established in 1993, VGSoM is the first and the largest B-
school within the IIT system.
With the mission “To develop outstanding management
professionals and future CEOs who will lead organizations
especially in technology-driven and knowledge-based
industries, in the service of the nation and the community”
 World renowned for its technological prowess, IIT
Kharagpur has leveraged its strengths in developing
VGSoM as a business management school of top caliber.

4. Programmes offered
 Master of Business Administration (MBA) –
Flagship Programme
 Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
– for working professionals (part-time)
 MBA for Defense personnel (IAF & Army)
 Management Development Programme.
 EMBA – Executive MBA

5. Competitive Admission
Group Personal
Written test
Discussion Interview
 From over 5000 applications around 800 were
shortlisted for GD/PIs and finally around 80 were
selected! So every VGSoM student is in the top 2% of
all possible candidates.
 The average CAT score of our students is around 96
percentile.
 When looking at a VGSoM student you can indeed
expect the top quality human resource.

6. Illustrious Alumni
 Shreya Singh, Vice President Arunima Nanda, Assistant Vice
(GPCM) - HSBC President, ABN AMRO Bank
 Shibashish Roy, Associate Vice Shouvik Bhattacharya, Sr.
President, Tata Capital (Singapore) Associate, Booz-Allen &
 Gopal Agrawal, Chief Investment Hamilton, New York
Krishnendu Dasgupta, Vice
Officer, MIRAE Asset
President - Group Head of Asia
 Rabin Roy, Managing Director & Pacific at Havells Sylvania Asia Pacific
CEO at SunCraft Energy Private Limited
Limited
Amandeep K, Director, HCL
 Krishna Kumar V., Vice President at
America
IL&FS Transportation Limited
Pruthvi Rao, Vice President -
 Devarsh Vakil, Head Advisory, HDFC Citibank
Securities

7. Pedagogy and Course Structure
 The pedagogy:
 Involves concept classes and case studies. The rich and diverse work experience of the
students adds another dimension to the whole learning process.
 World Class Faculty :
 20+ full time resident faculty who have doctoral degrees from top institutes & rich
industrial and management experience at senior corporate levels.
 VGSOM boasts of enviable student faculty ratio of 4:1
 The 2 year MBA curriculum covers :
 A minimum of 93 credits in 4 semesters.
 Students also undertake an 8 -10 weeks summer internship in various reputed
business firms at the end of the 1st year.
 8 Credit independent research project

8. Industry Interaction
Corporate visiting us for summits, guest lectures & live projects
Suranjan B, Credit Head, BNP
 Sanjoy Sen, Div CIO, ITC
Paribas
 Saugata Gupta, CEO, Marico
Mridula S, VP (HR), Goldmann
 Jaspreet Sachs
Bindra, Director, Microsoft Uday G, VP Mining, Aditya
 Divyesh L, Director, Ernst & Birla Group
Young Prabhash G, Head
 Sudeshna M, Director Marketing, Tata Steel
(Marketing), Phillips Shefalika S, CMO, Microsoft
 Abraham India
Koshy, Professor, IIM Amandeep K, Director, HCL
Ahmedabad America

9. Current student profiles
Work-ex Break-up
Freshers
4% 18%
27% 4% <1 year
1 year
20% 2 years
27% 3 years
4 years Branch-wise Break-up
Electronics &
Communication
Applied Electronics &
1% 1% Instrumentation
Computer Science
3% 14%
32%
3%
IT
10%
Chemical Engineering
14% 18%
Mechanical Engineering
2% 2%
Production Enggineering
Biomedical Engineering

10. Few past recruiters

11. Placement Statistics
Final Placements
Total No. of companies Visiting 35
Total No. offers extended 102
Batch Size 86
Candidates accepting offers 83
Average Salary of Offer Extended(In LPA) 11.32
Highest Salary offered(In LPA) 16.5
Lowest accepted offer (In LPA) 6.3
Summer Placements
Stipend Details For 2 Months
Best Stipend offered Rs. 1,00,000
Average Stipend offered Rs. 41,000
Median Stipend offered Rs. 36,000

12. Questions?
For any further details please contact :
Career Development and Placement
VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Anand Teltumbde
Chairman, Placements & Corporate Contact
anand@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in
+91-9475368435
+91-3222-281996
placements@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in
Placements.vgsom.iitkgp@gmail.com
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