SDMIMD Mysore's latest completed placement season covers the PGDM 2024-26 batch. The published results show a highest CTC of INR 16.25 LPA and an average CTC of INR 10.10 LPA. Students in the top 10% averaged INR 13.80 LPA, while the top 50% averaged INR 10.70 LPA.

All eligible students secured placements, with more than 30 companies participating and 10 recruiting at SDMIMD for the first time. BFSI accounted for the largest share of offers at 44%. Management Trainee, Consultant, Business Analyst and Credit Analyst were among the positions offered.

SDMIMD PGDM Placement Results

The institute's disclosed 2024-26 results relate to its 2-year, full-time PGDM, which is equivalent to an MBA. The salary outcomes and recruitment participation for this batch are presented below.

PGDM 2024-26 Salary Outcomes

CTC Measure Reported Result
Highest CTC INR 16.25 LPA
Average for the top 10% INR 13.80 LPA
Average for the top 50% INR 10.70 LPA
Overall average INR 10.10 LPA
Reported increase in highest CTC over the preceding cycle 8%

Recruitment Participation and Placement Coverage

Measure PGDM 2024-26
Participating recruiters 30+
First-time recruiters 10
Companies recruiting for a third consecutive year or longer More than 10
Largest hiring sector BFSI, with 44% of offers
Eligible-student placement status All eligible students placed

Recruiters included Infosys, Wipro, Schneider Electric, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, TTK Prestige, Federal Bank, Coffee Day Global, Ujjivan SFB, Bajaj Housing Finance and MakeMyTrip.

The eligible-student placement outcome differs in scope from the Director's statement that over 92% of the 2024-26 batch had been placed before the annual convocation in early April 2026. The first measure covers eligible students; the second covers the full batch at that specific point in time.

SDMIMD Placement Process and 2025-27 Batch Profile

How Campus Recruitment Operates

The Career Services office and student Placement Committee coordinate centralised recruitment. Employers first submit job descriptions specifying compensation and location. The committee shares these details with students before the company gives its campus pre-placement presentation.

SDMIMD applies a strict one student, one offer policy. Acceptance of an offer ends the student's participation in subsequent recruitment processes. The placement office must receive written or email confirmation before an offer is considered valid.

PGDM 2025-27 Recruitment Calendar

Scheduled Period Activity
September 2026 Pre-placement talks
October to December 2026 Final placements
April 2027 Students join their employers

Students Available for Recruitment

The 2025-27 placement brochure lists 234 students available for recruitment, making this SDMIMD's largest placement cohort to date.

Profile Category Distribution
Gender Male: 62%; female: 38%
Professional experience Freshers: 71%; students with work experience: 29%
Geographic background Karnataka: 44%; outside Karnataka: 56%

Finance and Marketing is the largest specialisation pairing, followed by Marketing and Systems.

Specialisation Pairing Students
Finance and Marketing 105
Marketing and Systems 65
Marketing and Human Resources 29
Finance and Systems 14
Marketing and Operations 10

Smaller groups study core Finance, Finance and HR, Finance and Operations, Systems and HR, or Systems and Operations.

Summer Internship Experience

Every student completes a 2-month summer internship between the programme's two academic years. The 2025-27 profile book names SAIL, Maruti Suzuki Arena, Geojit Financial Services, Kogta Financial, Tata Power Solar, Jubilant Biosys, Apollo BGS Hospital, Aequs and N Rangarao and Sons among the internship hosts.

SDMIMD Placement Trends from 2022 to 2026

A one-page placement report is published for each graduating PGDM batch. The 5 consecutive available reports support comparisons of salary levels and recruiter participation across the same programme.

Salary Progression Across Five Batches

Placement Year and Batch Highest CTC Average CTC Top 10% Average CTC Top 50% Average CTC
2022, PGDM 2020-22 INR 13.00 LPA INR 8.90 LPA - -
2023, PGDM 2021-23 INR 13.00 LPA INR 9.80 LPA INR 12.00 LPA INR 11.00 LPA
2024, PGDM 2022-24 INR 14.00 LPA INR 10.00 LPA INR 12.70 LPA INR 11.06 LPA
2025, PGDM 2023-25 INR 15.25 LPA INR 10.00 LPA INR 13.00 LPA INR 10.70 LPA
2026, PGDM 2024-26 INR 16.25 LPA INR 10.10 LPA INR 13.80 LPA INR 10.70 LPA

The highest CTC increased in each cycle after 2023, moving from INR 13.00 LPA to INR 16.25 LPA, a reported gain of 25% over four years. Overall averages showed less movement, rising from INR 8.90 LPA to INR 10.10 LPA across five cycles, with three years clustered at the INR 10 LPA level.

The average for the top 50% declined from INR 11.06 LPA in 2024 to INR 10.70 LPA in 2026. This pattern indicates that salary gains were concentrated at the upper end of the batch.

Changes in Recruiter Participation

Placement Year and Batch Participating Recruiters First-Time Recruiters
2022, PGDM 2020-22 19 5
2023, PGDM 2021-23 25+ 5
2024, PGDM 2022-24 37+ 10
2025, PGDM 2023-25 40+ 12+
2026, PGDM 2024-26 30+ 10

Participation reached its peak of more than 40 recruiters for the 2023-25 batch before falling to just above 30 for 2024-26. The institute attributes this reduction to cautious hiring conditions.

SDMIMD Placements by Sector and Specialisation

Sector Distribution

The institute reports hiring by sector for each batch. BFSI and IT together represented 76% to 80% of offers over the latest two cycles. BFSI became the largest sector ahead of IT from the 2023-25 batch onward, extending its lead to 8 percentage points in 2026.

Sector PGDM 2023-25 PGDM 2024-26
BFSI 41% 44%
IT and Services 35% 36%
Consulting 8% 9%
FMCG / FMCD 1% 4%
Real Estate - 2%
E-Commerce 3% 1%
Investment Banking 2% 1%
Manufacturing 1% 1%
Market Research 4% 1%
Wealth Management 4% -
NGO - 1%
Others 1% -

Wealth management and market research jointly accounted for 8% of offers in 2025, compared with 1% in 2026. Consulting remained within a 7% to 9% range for four consecutive years.

The 2022-24 batch had a different sector mix: IT and ITES contributed 33%, consumer products 9%, consulting 7% and manufacturing 7%.

Functional Domains and Specialisations

In their second year, students select single or dual specialisations from Finance, Marketing, Systems, Data Analytics, Human Resources and Operations. Each offer is mapped to a functional domain by the institute.

Specialisation PGDM 2022-24 PGDM 2023-25
Marketing 40% 38%
Systems 43% 26%
Finance 14% 21%
Human Resources 3% 8%
Operations - 7%

The supplied account describes the Systems share as having halved between 2022-24 and 2023-25, while its table records a change from 43% to 26%. Finance and Human Resources increased their shares. No functional-domain breakdown was published for 2024-26.

SDMIMD Recruiters and Hiring Relationships

SDMIMD describes about 43 companies as regular recruiting partners, meaning employers that have returned across multiple placement cycles. More than 10 recruited from the 2024-26 batch for at least the third consecutive year.

Recruiting Partners by Industry

Industry Group Recruiters
IT and consulting Infosys, Infosys BPM, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra, Oracle, Deloitte, Capgemini, Neosys, Equalizer RCM
Banking and NBFC HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Federal Bank, South Indian Bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, ESAF Small Finance Bank, Bajaj Housing Finance, Sundaram Home Finance, Home First Finance, SMFG India Credit, CreditAccess Grameen, Inprime Finserve, Neo Credit
Financial services and broking Anand Rathi, Morgan Stanley, ICICI Prudential Life, Hitachi Cash Management Services
Manufacturing and infrastructure Schneider Electric, Escorts Kubota, UltraTech Cement, Freudenberg Gala, Veolia Water Technologies, Power Rays, 42 Estates
Consumer, retail and FMCG Tata Consumer Products, L'Oreal, TTK Prestige, Reliance Retail, Cafe Coffee Day, Coffee Day Global, Zomato, MakeMyTrip
Research, logistics and social sector Feedback Insights, Afcom Cargo, Akshaya Patra Foundation

New and Earlier Recruiters

The 10 first-time recruiters in 2024-26 came mainly from banking and financial services, consumer products and manufacturing. The preceding 2023-25 cycle introduced more than 12 new recruiters, including Tata Consumer Products.

Earlier reports for 2020-22 and 2021-23 included Hindustan Unilever, L&T Infotech, IBM and EY GDS. More recent additions include Zomato, Reliance Retail, MakeMyTrip and several small finance banks.

SDMIMD Placement FAQs

Ques. Are placement results available for SDMIMD's PGDM 2025-27 batch?

Ans. The institute has not released placement figures for 2025-27. Its calendar schedules pre-placement talks for September 2026 and final recruitment for October to December 2026, making publication before early 2027 unlikely. The latest official placement report covers PGDM 2024-26.

Ques. What accounts for the difference between SDMIMD's placement figures and its NIRF submissions?

Ans. The documents use different student populations. SDMIMD reports placements among eligible students, meaning those who satisfy academic requirements and participate in campus recruitment. NIRF includes the whole graduating class; the 2023-24 filing records 156 placements among 176 graduates. Students pursuing a family business, entrepreneurship or off-campus opportunities remain in NIRF's total but are excluded from the institute's eligible recruitment pool.

Ques. How does accepting an offer affect a student's remaining placement opportunities?

Ans. Under the one student, one offer rule, securing the first offer removes the student from further placement rounds, including those with higher-paying employers. The policy helps companies plan their headcount and distributes opportunities across the cohort. Consequently, an early offer ends that student's placement season.

Ques. Which industries and job titles account for most SDMIMD recruitment?

Ans. BFSI and IT together contributed 76% to 80% of offers in the latest two cycles. For 2024-26, BFSI represented 44% and IT and services 36%. Frequently reported roles include Management Trainee, Consultant, Business Analyst, Credit Analyst, Functional Analyst and Key Account Manager. Consulting's share stayed between 7% and 9% for four consecutive years.

Ques. Do the published results identify overseas packages or summer internship stipends?

Ans. No. Placement salaries are stated as CTC in INR lakh per annum, and the reports do not label any offer as international or dollar-denominated. Summer internship stipends are also absent from the placement reports, although internship employers are named in the batch profile book.