IIM Alumni: Around 5500 IIM MBA graduates passed out from all the IIMs in a year. After completing graduation from IIMs, many of the IIM graduates received job offers from top companies in India or abroad with the highest salary package ranging from Rs. 50 LPA to Rs. 1.40 CPA. Sanjeev Bhikchandani (Founder of Infoedge Pvt. Ltd.), IIM Alumni of Ahmedabad is the richest among all the IIM Alumni in India. Some of the top IIM Alumni in India are Raghuram Rajan, Indra Nooyi, Harsha Bhogle and many others. Many IIM Alumni have become the top leaders for leading multinational brands. Meanwhile, some of the IIM Alumni have started their own business and brought financial growth to the country and world. Read this careers360 article to know about some of the famous IIM Alumni and understand how the IIM Alumni associations become support for society and the economy.
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Some of the main contributions and achievements made by some of the top IIM Alumni list are mentioned below:
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Many prominent business leaders graduated from IIMs. Most of the entrepreneurs who started their businesses after passing out from the IIMs. MBA aspirants can go through the below table to find out some of the top notable IIM alumni from old IIMs.
Top IIMs in India | Famous IIM Alumni |
Raghuram Rajan - Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Director of research, International Monetary Fund. Arvind Subramanian - Former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. K. V. Kamath - Chairman of the board of directors of Jio Financial Services and former chief of the New Development Bank of BRICS countries. C. K. Prahalad - Indian-American entrepreneur and author Ajay Banga - President of the World Bank and President and CEO, Mastercard. | |
Indra Nooyi - Former CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo. Sunil Duggal - Former CEO of Dabur. Ajit Balakrishnan - Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com Shyam Srinivasan - MD and CEO of The Federal Bank Ltd. Gopal Vittal - MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel. | |
K. Radhakrishnan - Former Chairman of ISRO Damodar Mall - CEO of Reliance Retail’s Value Formats Krishnakumar Natarajan - Co-founder of Mindtree and former Chairman of NASSCOM Aswath Damodaran - Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Dr Gopal Krishna Nayak - Former director, IIIT Bhubaneswar. | |
Tathagat Tripathi - Country Manager, Amazon Marketplace - Saudi Arabia Surya Saurabh - Managing Director at Deloitte Digital in the US Vijoy Basu - Senior Director for AI & Analytics, Cognizant Harmanpreet Singh - Founder & Managing Partner at Prath Ventures Sundeep Singh - Former Managing Director, Accenture Consulting | |
Nitin Seth - Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Gayatri Iyer - Indian playback singer Suhail Sameer - Former CEO of BharatPe | |
Rajat Shikhar - Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at DealShare Siddharth Sethi - Founder of Infobeans Technologies Chakradhar Gade - Co-founder and CEO of Country Delight | |
Akhilesh Tuteja - Director, Information Risk Management KPMG Ananthram M. Kini - Director, External Manufacturing Bishnupada Sethi - Collector and District Magistrate, Govt. of Orissa G. Shiva - Vice President, Citi Bank N.Sreekumar - Vice President, Apollo Tyres Ltd. | |
Ditesh Verma - Global Macro Portfolio Manager, BlackRock Dick Deka - Chief Manager, ICICI Bank Khalid Tanveer - Vice President, SGSITS Kanika Patoria - Director of Marketing, Curwish Sreekant K - Tech Strategist, Microsoft | |
Abhishek Bhalerao - Legal Counsel at Samsung R&D Institute India Sweta Singh - Senior Manager, ICICI Prudential Teekendra Singh - Treasury Advisory, Deloitte Poonam Ralh - Senior Manager, YES Bank Shreenidhi - Manager, Tata Steel Long Product Limited | |
Angad Singh - Tempawala.com Arinjay Jain - Business Consultant, Apoorva Consultancy Ashish Mishra - Product Manager, RBL Bank Dsouza Antonio Rahul - Strategy Consultant, Accenture Rishiraj Kashyap - Sales Leader, GE Power |
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The Indian Institute of Management has significantly influenced both society and the Indian economy. Many IIM alumni have become business leaders, and taken over major roles in many multinational organisations. Their leadership in these firms contribute to global economic growth and development. Apart from this, IIM alumni have started their own companies by creating plenty of job opportunities and bringing transformations in the Industry. Also, The success stories of the many IIM Alumni as an entrepreneurs inspire many of future entrepreneurs.
Pepsico | Bigbasket | Rediffmail.com |
MakeMyTrip | Nykaa | Fractal Analytics |
BharatPe | Naukri | ID Fresh foods |
IIM Alumni associations form a network to connect all the IIM graduates passed out from all the 21 IIMs in India. IIM Alumni associations conduct meetings once a year to share their experience and ideas for professional and business development. The IIM Alumni Associations conduct various seminars, workshops and mentorship programmes to help recent graduates build their networks and explore new career or business opportunities. Moreover, the IIM Alumni also offer various scholarships and donations to the institutions.
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When we discuss the IIM Alumni, it is important to know about the latest IIM placements. As per the IIM Placements 2024 reports released by the various IIMs, the highest salary package offered was Rs. 1.46 CPA and the average salary package offered was Rs. 35 LPA. Most IIM MBA graduates have received the highest IIM MBA salary packages and multiple offers.
The IIM MBA graduates get placed in any of the top national or multinational companies with the best MBA salary packages available in the Industry every year. Some of the sectors where IIM alumni are working are Banking, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Finance, Sales and Marketing, General management and many others. Check out the list of companies where the IIM Alumni work.
HSBC | Reliance | TATA | Adani |
Axis Bank | ICICI Bank | Airtel | Wipro |
Infosys | IBM | KPMG | EY |
Accenture | Wipro | JP Morgan | Cognizant |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
After graduation IIM Alumni can get Rs 20 LPA to Rs 35 LPA, after 5 years the salary will be around Rs 30 to 45 lakhs and after 10 years, the same will be Rs 50 LPA to Rs 1.8 CPA.
Some of the renowned IIM Alumni in India are Raghuram Rajan, Harsha Bhogle, Indra Nooyi, and many others.
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