Indian School of Business

What is the average package at Indian School of Business?

The average package at Indian School of Business (ISB) for the PGP Class of 2026 is ₹37.29 lakh per annum (₹3,729,000), with the highest single offer reaching ₹1.56 crore (₹15,600,000). That average marks roughly an 11% jump over the Class of 2025, whose mean stood at ₹35.00 lakh (₹3,500,000) against a high of ₹66 lakh (₹6,600,000), and continues the climb from the Class of 2024 average of ₹34.21 lakh (₹3,421,000). ISB delivers these outcomes through its flagship one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) run across its Hyderabad and Mohali campuses, where cohorts average around four years of prior work experience, so these figures reflect post-MBA compensation for experienced professionals rather than fresh-graduate salaries.

For the Class of 2025, ISB reported about 98% of the batch placed, with 364 companies extending 1,164 offers to roughly 816 students. The Class of 2026 saw 808 students receive 1,117 offers, including 30 international offers, confirming that the ₹37.29 lakh average rests on near-full placement rather than a thin slice of top performers.

Branch/Course-Wise Package Breakdown

ISB does not run separate engineering-style branches; its PGP is a single general-management degree, so the most meaningful "branch-wise" view is ISB's own sector-wise and function-wise compensation, which answers the question "which career track at ISB pays the most?". The table below shows the mid-80% average CTC ISB reports by hiring sector and the share of offers each sector commanded for the Class of 2026, where Consulting (37%) and Technology (28%) together absorbed about two-thirds of the batch. Read each row as the typical pay band for graduates who took offers in that sector, alongside how common those offers were.

The takeaway for an ISB applicant is that the headline ₹37.29 lakh average for 2026 masks real spread: niche, lower-volume sectors such as Manufacturing (₹48.83 LPA) and Education (₹43.33 LPA) post the richest mid-80% bands, while the highest-volume tracks, Consulting (₹35.57 LPA) and Technology (₹32.86 LPA), sit a little below the overall mean precisely because they hire in bulk. ISB does not publish a separate median for each sector, and the ₹1.56 crore high for 2026 is a single cohort-wide peak rather than a sector figure, so treat the niche-sector averages as opportunities that depend on landing a scarce role.

Year-Wise Package Trend

This table tracks the trajectory of ISB PGP compensation across the Class of 2024, 2025 and 2026, answering whether an ISB MBA is getting more valuable over time. It pairs the average (mean) CTC ISB reports each year with the highest offer; ISB does not publish a single consolidated batch median, so that column is marked accordingly rather than estimated. Read it top to bottom to see the direction of travel.

The trend is unambiguously upward: ISB's average CTC rose from ₹34.21 lakh in 2024 to ₹35.00 lakh in 2025 and then ₹37.29 lakh in 2026, an overall gain of roughly 9% across the three cohorts and about 11% in the single jump from 2025 to 2026. The highest offer is the most dramatic shift, leaping from ₹66 lakh in 2025 to ₹1.56 crore in 2026, signalling that premium and international roles at the top of the ISB cohort expanded sharply even as the broad average rose more modestly. For an applicant, the steady mean growth matters more than the headline peak, because it reflects what the typical ISB graduate, not the outlier, can expect.

Notable Offers & Package Distribution

The direct answer: at ISB the package distribution is anchored by a handful of mass recruiters at or near the average and a thin band of premium offers stretching to the ₹1.56 crore (₹15,600,000) cohort high of 2026. Accenture led recruitment for the Class of 2026 with over 100 offers, followed by Mastercard and EY GDS each extending more than 40 offers, making them the volume employers that cluster around the ₹37.29 lakh average. Premium hiring came from McKinsey & Company, Deloitte, Bajaj Finserv, Flipkart, Nykaa and HCL Technologies, the firms whose consulting, strategy and product roles pull the top of the distribution well above the mean.

The distribution tells an applicant that ISB outcomes are broad-based, not lottery-driven: with 1,117 offers spread across 808 students in 2026 and Consulting, Technology and BFSI together taking over 75% of roles, most graduates land near the ₹37.29 lakh average through mass recruiters like Accenture. The leap in the highest package to ₹1.56 crore and the rise in international offers to 30 (from 26 in 2025) show the premium tail is widening, but those crore-plus roles remain rare. Realistically, an incoming student should plan around the high-30s-lakh average and treat the ₹1.56 crore figure as the ceiling, not the expectation.