The summer placement season at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode saw participation from 66 top recruiters from India and abroad.

The average stipend on campus zoomed 25 per cent as compared to last year. Accenture Business Consulting and Boston Analytics offered the highest domestic stipend at Summer Placements 2008 - Rs 50,000 per month.

The offers saw an even distribution across verticals, with 28 per cent of the batch choosing internships in the finance domain, 22 per cent of the batch selecting marketing profiles and 20 per cent of the batch showing their preference for systems. Around 16 per cent of the batch chose consulting internships, while the other 15 per cent was evenly split across Operations, HR and others.

Accenture Business Consulting extended its relationship with IIMK to summer placements this year, after making the highest number of offers across top campuses at IIM-K during final placements 2007.

Technology giants Google and Yahoo! were amongst the most coveted recruiters on campus; both offered roles in Internet Sales & Marketing that were extremely sought after at Summer Placements 2008.

Around 22 new recruiting partners participated in placements for the first time. Some of the new names include Google, Freudenberg, Accenture Business Consulting, Citibank, Bank of America, KPMG, Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Hewitt Associates, amongst others.

Other prominent recruiters include YES BANK [Get Quote], Johnson & Johnson, HUL, Yahoo!, Edelweiss, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Ocwen, American Express, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston Analytics, Marico, CHAINalytics, Standard Chartered Bank, Deloitte Consulting Colgate-Palmolive, ITC, Asian Paints [Get Quote], and Tata Motors [Get Quote], amongst others.