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    IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placements 2025: Cluster 1 Concludes; Accenture, BCG, McKinsey Lead Hiring
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    IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placements 2025: Cluster 1 Concludes; Accenture, BCG, McKinsey Lead Hiring

    Suvam MaitiUpdated on 30 Oct 2025, 04:06 PM IST

    IIM Ahmedabad completed the first cluster of the IIM Ahmedabad summer placement 2025-2027 batch on October 28, 2025. According to the recent IIM Ahmedabad press release, “Management Consulting”, “Transformation & Operations Consulting”, “Advisory Consulting”, “Cards & Financial Advisory”, “Investment Banking & Markets”, and “PE/VC, Asset Management & Hedge Funds” are the 6 cohorts where almost 80 firms participated in cluster 1. In this cluster, the top five recruiters for the IIM Ahmedabad 2025 summer placement were Accenture Strategy, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and Kearney. This IIM Ahmedabad 2025 summer placement cluster 1 was concluded in hybrid mode - both online and offline mode.

    IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placements 2025: Cluster 1 Concludes; Accenture, BCG, McKinsey Lead Hiring
    IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placements 2025: Cluster 1 Concludes; Accenture, BCG, McKinsey Lead Hiring

    IIM Ahmedabad 2025-2027 Summer Placement Cluster 1: Sector-wise break-up

    As 80 companies participated in the IIM Ahmedabad 2025 summer placement cluster one here is the sector-wise breakup of the 6 cohorts -

    1. Investment Banking & Markets cohort - Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered were the prominent banks in this sector. Apart from this, other banks that participated in IIM Ahmedabad 2025 summer placement include Avendus Capital, Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, HSBC, JPMorganChase, and Morgan Stanley.

    2. Consulting - Alvarez & Marsal, EY Parthenon, Kepler Cannon, L.E.K. Consulting India Pvt Ltd., Oliver Wyman, Roland Berger, Strategy&, Vector Consulting Group and YCP Auctus, among others.

    3. Private Equity and Venture Capital - Ares Management, Blackstone Group, Faering Capital, Gaja Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Piramal Alternatives and Premji Invest

    4. Cards & Financial Advisory- IIMA summer placement 2025 first cluster got American Express, Cranmore Partner and Synergy Consulting as the top recruiters from this cohort.

    5. IIMA International Opportunities: In the IIMA summer placement 2025, students of the 2025-2027 batch got international offers from Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong/Singapore), HSBC (Hong Kong) and Strategy& (Middle East)

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    However, IIM Ahmedabad Summer placement Clusters 2 and 3 will be held on 31st October and 3rd November, respectively.

    Read More: IIM Ahmedabad Placement 2025

    IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placement 2025: What Happened Last Year?

    In the 2024-2026 batch of IIM Ahmedabad, 51 new companies participated in the summer placements, up from 12 in 2023.

    Management Consulting: Alvarez & Marsal, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Kearney, Kepler Cannon, McKinsey & Company, Roland Berger, Simon Kucher, Strategy& India, and YCP Auctus.

    Transformation & Operations consulting: Accenture Strategy (India Market Unit), Accenture Strategy (Global Network), Vector Consulting Group

    Advisory Consulting: In this domain, EY-Parthenon India, PwC, EY-Parthenon Singapore and KPMG were the top recruiters in the IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placement

    Cards & Financial Advisory: American Express (7 offers)

    Investment Banking and Markets: Goldman Sachs (11) and HSBC (India and Hong Kong) made 6 offers for this sector. Apart from these, Arpwood Capital, Avendus Capital, Axis Capital, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche AG, Deutsche India, DE Shaw, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley gave an offer to the IIM Ahmedabad management students.

    Private Equity and Venture Capital: Ares Asia Asset Management, Arga Investment Management, Faering Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund.

    Consumer Goods, Consumer Durables and Consumer Services: Arga Investment Management, Faering Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund

    Conglomerates: Aditya Birla Group, CK Birla Group, JSW Group, Mahindra Group, Reliance, TAS, and Lodha Ventures, among others

    Cluster

    Number of students

    placed

    (Net offers after

    dreams/hold options)

    Cluster 1

    210

    Cluster 2

    100

    Cluster 3

    84

    Other Internships (Off-campus,

    IIMAvericks)

    8

    Total number of students placed

    394

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