Top 20 MBA Colleges In India For Sales And Marketing


The importance of sales and marketing cannot be understated. One of the most important departments of companies that help in profit generation is sales and marketing department. They understand the needs and requirements of customers and help in resolving their needs profitably. Billion-dollar corporates are always on the lookout for talents who can add value to their organizations. Many of these corporates trust the top business schools in our country and recruit the students for highly challenging profiles in sales and marketing domains. Let us see the performance of the top business schools in helping their students receive sales and marketing roles with top corporates. The order given below is a list and not rank.

MBA in Sales and Marketing
Top 20 Colleges in India
  1. IIM Ahmedabad

Students of the batch of 2018-2020 at IIM Ahmedabad, received 59 offers in sales and marketing. The domestic average for sales and marketing offers during the season 2018-2020 final placements was at INR 18,14,144 per annum.

  1. IIM Bangalore

There were 432 students in the batch of 2018-2020 at IIM Bangalore. They were provided 518 offers during the final placements season. The average domestic salary was INR 26,18,000 per annum. 11% of total offers were provided during this placements season in Sales and Marketing sector.

  1. IIM Calcutta

There were 444 students in the batch of 2018-2020 at IIM Calcutta. They were provided 498 offers during the final placements season. 17% of total offers were provided in sales and marketing. The average compensation was at INR 27,80,000 per annum. The average for sales and marketing during this season was at INR 29,90,000. And the maximum salary offered for the students in sales and marketing was at INR 80,00,000.

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  1. IIM Lucknow

IIM Lucknow saw 100% placements for its batch of 2018-2020 with a strength of 443 students. 447 offers were provided in total. 12% of total offers were in sales and marketing.

  1. IIM Kozhikode

IIM Kozhikode closed final placements in just 5 days for its batch of 2018-2020. 413 students participated in the process. The average compensation offered in sales and marketing was INR 22,13,000 per annum. The maximum compensation offered in this domain was INR 58,00,000 per annum. 19% of total offers were made in sales and marketing

  1. IIM Indore

IIM Indore has maintained its reputation again by having a good placements season for its batch of 2018-2020 which had 578 students (431 in PGP, 91 Dual Degree and 56 students in PGP Mumbai) The average salary offered was INR 22,92,000 per annum. 23% of the total offers made were in sales and marketing domain during this placements season. Asian Paints, Ciplpa, Dabur, ITC. L’ Oreal, Panasonic, Tata Power, Tata Steel offered roles to the students in sales and marketing domain.

  1. FMS

FMS had a good placements season for its batch of 2018-2020 which had 230 students. 219 Students participated in the final placements process and 234 offers were provided. Average CTC was at INR 25,60,000 per annum. A total of 53 offers were provided in sales and marketing, of which 21 were pre-placement offers.

MBA in Sales and Marketing
Top 20 Colleges in India
  1. MDI

MDI Gurgaon successfully completed its final placements for the batch of 2018-2020 with 239 students in PGPM, 60 students in PGP-IM, 60 students in PGP-HRM. The average salary for the batch was INR 22,05,000 per annum for the batch. 117 offers were received in sales and marketing domain. Top corporates like Nestle, Tata Consumer Products Ltd. recruited for the first time. Asian paints, Coca-Cola, ITC, Marico, Mars were few of the recruiters who offered roles to the students in sales and marketing domain.

  1. IIM Trichy

IIM Trichy completed its placements season for the batch of 2018-2020. 119 companies participated in the process. 186 offers were provided in total for the 173 students at IIM Trichy during this placements season. Average CTC was at INR 14,96,000 per annum for the batch. 31.2% of the total offers were provided in sales and marketing sector. The average CTC of top 50% in this domain was INR 19,01,000 per annum. The roles offered in this domain were Associate Director – Marketing, Product specialist, Area sales manager, City head, brand manager, Product manager.

  1. ISB

ISB had a good placements season for its 890 students of the class of 2020. The 80% mean for the students of the class of 2020 was INR 25,06,434. A total of 1504 offers were provided. 16% of the total offers provided in sales and marketing function.

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur

XLRI Jamshedpur completed a successful placements season for its batch of 2018-2020 which had 359 students. The finals placements process this season concluded in just 2 days. 108 recruiters participated in the process and 362 offers were provided to the students. This season also saw 24 new recruiters who participated in the process. The average salary offered was at INR 24,30,000 per annum. 21% of the total roles offered to Business Management students were in sales and marketing. Top corporates like P&G, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Asian Paints, Samsung provided offers to the students.

  1. IIFT

IIFT saw a good final placements season for its batch 2018-2020 which had a total strength of 321 students. 107 recruiters participated in the process and extended 10 international offers as well. The average compensation was INR 20,48,000 per annum. Roles in sales and marketing were offered by ITC, L’ Oreal, Dabur, Dell, Philips, Shell, TVS, Tata Steel and JSW among others during this placements season.

MBA in Sales and Marketing
Top 20 Colleges in India
  1. VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur

Vinod Gupta School of Management had 126 students in the batch of 2018-2020. 125 students participated in the final placement process. 70 recruiters were part of the process. INR 18,10,000 was the average salary provided during this placements season. 17% of the total offers provided in sales and marketing domain. Texas Instruments, Crompton, Titan offered roles in sales and marketing. Roles like account management, product management, program management were offered to the students.

  1. Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies

JBIMS had 125 students in its batch of 2018-2020. 60 Pre-placement offers or pre-placement interviews were offered to the students. 65 companies participated in the process. Average CTC was INR 22,84,000 per annum. Top corporates like Abbott, Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, P&G and Hindustan Unilever Limited also provided offers to the students from FMCG, healthcare sectors.

  1. SIBM, Pune

SIBM, Pune completed its final placements process for its batch of 2018-2020. Over 90 companies participated in the process. The students received 87 pre-placement offers. The average CTC was INR 20,14,000 per annum. In sales and marketing, INR 34,26,000 per annum was the highest salary offered. 46% of the student were offered PPOs. Abbott, Godrej, Dabur, Pidilite, Tata Steel, Shell, ITC and Titan were few of the recruiters who offered roles in sales and marketing.

  1. NITIE, Mumbai

NITIE had 414 students in its class of 2020. There were 121 recruiters who participated in the final placements process and there were 19 new recruiters. The average salary offered was INR 20,88,000 per annum. The students also received 130 PPOs. 12% of the offers were provided in the FMCG sector. INR 26,50,000 per annum was the average salary in this sector. Colgate-Palmolive, Dabur, HUL, ITC, Marico, Nestle and P&G provided offers to the students.

  1. DoMS, IIT Madras

DoMS, IIT Madras had 48 students in the batch of 2018-2020. The number of students who participated in the placements drive was 44. 25% of the students received PPOs. 3 international offers were also provided. The highest salary provided was INR 29,02,000 per annum. 20% of offers provided to students with 3+ years of work experience were in marketing. 16% of the total offers provided were in the marketing domain. The major recruiters were AG Facilities, CISCO, FSS. In the marketing domain, the highest CTC was INR 29,00,000 per annum.

  1. SP Jain Institute of Management and Research

SPJIMR successfully completed the final placements process for 238 students of the PGDM Class of 2020. 122 companies participated in the process and there were also 44 recruiters who participated for the first time. The average salary was INR 26,36,000 per annum. Key recruiters like Asian paints, Colgate-Palmolive, Marico, Nestle, Pidilite recruited students for sales and marketing roles.

MBA in Sales and Marketing
Top 20 Colleges in India
  1. NMIMS

NMIMS, Mumbai concluded its final placement for its batch of 2018-2020. 170 companies participated in the process. 34% of its MBA batch students received PPOs. Highest Domestic CTC was INR 38,57,000 per annum and for international the highest was INR 58,61,000 per annum. Average CTC was at INR 18,33,000 per annum. Major FMCG companies like ITC, Pidilite, Titan, Asian Paints, Britannia, L’ Oreal and Pepsico among others provided offers to the students. The flagship program of Eaton, Sales and Marketing Center Leadership Development Program (SMCLDP) was also offered to the students.

  1. IIM Shillong

IIM Shillong had 175 students in its batch of 2018-2020. 170 students participated in the process. 185 offers were provided by 60 recruiters to the students. INR 18,76,000 per annum was the average salary offered. INR 48,50,000 per annum was the highest salary that was offered to the students. 27% of the total offers were provided in sales and marketing. The highest salary offered in this domain was INR 26,00,000 per annum. Maruti Suzuki, Pidilite, Amazon, Godrej, Tata Steel, Titan were few of the recruiters who provided offers to the students in sales and marketing.

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Placement Reports References:

  1. https://web.iima.ac.in/iprs/gallery/2020/IPRS%20_PGP%20Finals%202020.pdf
  2. https://www.iimb.ac.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/Placement-Report-2020.pdf
  3. https://www.iimcal.ac.in/sites/all/files/pdfs/placement_report_03april_rev2.pdf
  4. http://www.iiml.ac.in/sites/default/files/2020-01/1014779915FINAL%20PLACEMENT%20REPORT-28-01-2020.pdf
  5. https://www.iimk.ac.in/academics/pgp/PlacementReports/FinalPlacementReport2020.pdf?t=08
  6. https://www.iimidr.ac.in/news-events/final-placement-2020-press-release/
  7. http://www.fms.edu/?q=node/2134
  8. https://mdi.ac.in/Final%20Placement%20Report%202018-20.pdf
  9. https://www.iimtrichy.ac.in/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/20200529094844Final%20Placements%20Report%202020.pdf
  10. https://www.isb.edu/content/dam/sites/isb/isb-hire/Co2020%20Placement%20Report.pdf
  11. https://www.xlri.ac.in/recruiters/placement-details.aspx?id=1&this=20
  12. https://tedu.iift.ac.in/iift/docs/FinalPlacementReport2020.pdf
  13. https://som.iitkgp.ac.in/pdf/VGSOM_Placement_Report.pdf
  14. https://jbims.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Final-Placement-Report-2020.pdf
  15. https://www.sibm.edu/assets/pdf/CRP_2019_REPORT.pdf
  16. https://www.nitie.edu/sites/default/files/nitie-documents/NITIE_Placement_Report_Batch_of_2020.pdf
  17. https://doms.iitm.ac.in/images/placements/Final_Placement_Report_2020.pdf
  18. https://www.spjimr.org/sites/default/files/Finals%20Placement%20Report%202020.pdf
  19. https://sbm.nmims.edu/docs/Final%20Placement%20Report.pdf
  20. https://www.iimshillong.ac.in/docs/IIM%20Shilong%20Final%20Placement%20Report%202018-20_May20.pdf