The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has upheld its reputation as recruiters' top choice again this year. It has managed to get its batch of almost 300 students, which is the largest batch amongst all the IIMs, placed in a record 4.5 days.

The students have been offered diverse roles such as investment banking, consulting, general management, private equity, and even something as esoteric as economic research and advisory, normally reserved for highly qualified PhDs and economists.

The prestigious Slot 0 saw companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merill Lynch, McKinsey, Macquarie, Credit Suisse, A T Kearney, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, HSBC Global, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays Capital, Deustche Bank and Lehman Brothers amongst many others.

Firms such as Merill Lynch (18), Morgan Stanley (11), JP Morgan Chase (13), HSBC Global (6), AT Kearney (5) and Mc Kinsey (8) recruited the highest number of students from IIM Calcutta across all the IIMs, on basis of the reports arriving from other IIM campuses. Then there were firms, like Credit Suisse for example, which chose to recruit exclusively from IIM Calcutta picking up 7 students. Even Macquarie, which was recruiting for the first time from IIM Calcutta, selected 9 students.

These superlative placements are no surprise for the batch of students with the highest number of Aditya Birla Scholars this year (5 out of the 10 across all the IIMs).

More than 58 per cent of Slot 0 offers were made by international investment banks and 37 per cent by international consulting firms. Another highest for IIM Calcutta was the number of international offers that were offered to the students, which totaled 137 in all.

This too came from varied domains, and included openings in retail, general management, marketing and investment banking. Some of the major firms these international positions included marketing behemoths such as Proctor and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Limited and Coke, the ubiquitous investment banks, the consulting firms, and by Indian firms such as the Aditya Vikram Birla Group and Dabur [Get Quote].

Around 50 per cent of the Slot 0 firms recruited their highest numbers from IIMC across all the IIMs.

Company	Students recruited
	IIM Calcutta	IIM Ahmedabad**	IIM Bangalore**
Merill Lynch	18	13	10
JP Morgan Chase	13	NA	11
Morgan Stanley	11	NA	6
Credit Suisse	7	0	0
HSBC	6	0	5
Rothschild	2	1	2
AT Kearney	5	NA	NA
McKinsey	8	NA	4

*NA : Data Not Available        ** According to Placement reports released by IIMA and IIMB