Indian School of Business

What is the placement record at Indian School of Business?

The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad has delivered consistently strong placements for its flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), with an average package of ₹37.29 LPA in 2026 and a highest package of ₹1.56 Crore in 2026. In 2025, ISB recorded a 98% placement rate, an average package of ₹35.00 LPA and a highest package of ₹66.00 LPA, with 364 companies extending 1,164 offers to the Class of 2025. ISB is a private standalone business school, so its outcomes are driven by one intensive residential year of management education rather than a multi-branch engineering model, and Consulting, Technology and BFSI dominate the recruiter mix.

Across the last three cycles the average compensation at ISB has climbed steadily, from ₹34.21 LPA in 2024 to ₹35.00 LPA in 2025 and ₹37.29 LPA in 2026, while the headline highest package leapt from ₹66.00 LPA in 2025 to ₹1.56 Crore in 2026. With an average work experience of roughly four years in the batch and more than 60 first-time recruiters joining in 2025, ISB placements are a lateral, leadership-track market rather than an entry-level one.

Year-Wise Placement Statistics

The table below compiles the verified year-wise placement statistics for the Indian School of Business PGP across 2026, 2025 and 2024. It answers the single most common aspirant question: how have the average package, highest package and placement percentage moved over time at ISB Hyderabad. Read each row as one graduating cohort; figures are reported in lakhs and crores of rupees (CTC). Where ISB has not officially disclosed a metric for a given year, the cell is marked "Not disclosed" rather than estimated.

The takeaway for an applicant is a clear upward trajectory: the ISB average package rose by roughly ₹3 LPA between 2024 (₹34.21 LPA) and 2026 (₹37.29 LPA), a roughly 9% climb in two years. The most striking move is at the top end, where the highest package more than doubled from ₹66.00 LPA in 2025 to ₹1.56 Crore in 2026, signalling that ISB's strongest candidates are increasingly winning senior strategy, private equity and global tech roles. The verified 98% placement rate in 2025 confirms that near-universal placement, not just high salaries, is the norm at ISB.

Top Recruiters at Indian School of Business

ISB's recruiter base is led by the global strategy consulting elite and the largest technology and financial-services employers. For the Class of 2025, 364 companies registered and made 1,164 offers, including 44 international offers and over 180 offers from more than 60 first-time recruiters. The recruiters below are grouped by the sectors that drive the majority of ISB hiring.

Consulting and Advisory

McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain & Company, Accenture, Deloitte and EY are the anchor consulting recruiters at ISB. In 2025, Accenture and Deloitte together extended over 100 consulting offers, while McKinsey was among the recruiters making 20 or more offers each.

Technology and E-commerce

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Flipkart, HCL Technologies, Coforge, Cognizant, Nagarro and Navi Technologies recruit heavily from ISB. Nagarro and Navi Technologies were among the firms extending 20-plus offers each to the Class of 2025.

BFSI, FMCG and Others

Goldman Sachs, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Finserv and EXL lead the BFSI hiring at ISB, while ITC, Nykaa, Airtel and Air India recruit across general management, marketing and operations roles.

The practical takeaway is that an ISB candidate's recruiter pool is dominated by MBB consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) and Big Four advisory alongside the biggest names in technology and banking, which is exactly why the school's average package sits in the mid-to-high thirties in LPA. The steady inflow of 60-plus first-time recruiters in 2025 also means the recruiter list keeps broadening year on year.

Sector & Role-Wise Breakdown

The table below shows how ISB's offers split across sectors and functions for the most recently detailed cohort. It answers the question every applicant asks: which domains actually hire at ISB and in what proportion. The sector figures represent each industry's share of total offers; the role figures show the leading job functions ISB graduates step into. Read the two halves together to understand both who hires and what work the offers are for.

The clear takeaway is that ISB is, first and foremost, a consulting and technology school: Consulting (37%), Technology (28%) and BFSI (11%) together accounted for more than three-quarters of all offers, with consulting roles alone (Business/Strategy plus IT consulting) making up around a third of the function mix. For 2024, ISB reported that roughly 80% of the cohort received offers exceeding ₹35 LPA, underscoring that the high sector concentration translates into uniformly strong compensation rather than a handful of outliers.

Placement Trend Analysis

ISB's placement trajectory has been firmly upward across all three cycles. The average package moved from ₹34.21 LPA in 2024 to ₹35.00 LPA in 2025 and then ₹37.29 LPA in 2026, a steady gain that outpaces typical year-on-year salary inflation and reflects rising demand for experienced ISB managers in consulting and tech. The 2025 cohort of 816 students drew 1,164 offers from 364 companies, while the 2024 cohort of 870 students drew 1,208 offers from 405 companies, showing that ISB sustains more than one offer per student even as batch sizes and recruiter counts shift year to year.

The sharpest signal is at the high end. The highest package jumped from ₹66.00 LPA in 2025 to ₹1.56 Crore in 2026, a more than two-fold rise that points to elite candidates landing senior global strategy, private equity and big-tech leadership roles. Combined with the 98% placement rate in 2025 and the 44 international offers that year, the trend tells an applicant two things clearly: ISB places very nearly its entire batch, and the ceiling for its strongest performers has expanded dramatically. The widening base of first-time recruiters (60-plus in 2025) suggests this momentum is structural rather than a one-year spike.