Thursday, January 16, 2014

Where are XLRI Alumni?

  Varun Deshpande 

XLRI, located in Jamshedpur, is a highly reputed business school. It is always considered among the top 10 colleges in India and studying there is very prestigious.
While knowing where the school stands is a good place to start, judging it solely based on the ranking would actually be wrong. If you really want to know how good a school is and what your prospects would be after studying in that school, you should do a good analysis of the alumnus. Where are the alumni living? Which companies have recruited them? What job roles are mostly popular among them? When you do a comparative analysis of all this data you will understand whether XLRI is indeed the ideal school for you based on the field you are interested in. Let’s learn more about this top business school:
Location
When you consider location of the XLRI alumni, you will see that 81% of them are located in India itself. Only a mere 19% have gone abroad for career prospects. In India, the leading cities of interest for the XLRI seem to be Mumbai and Bangalore. A fair bit of them are also based in New Delhi right now. Statistics reveal that Kolkata is also a popular city among XLRI alumni.
The United States of America has 6% (700) of the total 11,200 alumni from XLRI. They are mainly located in New York and San Francisco. 3.6% (410) graduates are presently in the United Arab Emirates and the remaining 2% (230) have chosen Singapore as their abode.
You will notice that even though foreign countries are quite popular for XLRI graduates, most of them are living in India. This is proof that India has enough attractive career prospects for graduates from influential institutions.
Careers
Human Resources is the clean sweeper here, having attracted most of the alumni so far. An astounding 2060 graduates from XLRI are into Human Resources right now and 1011 graduates are in sales. This implies that if you are interested in HR management or anything related to Human Resources, you should definitely apply to XLRI and strive to get in. Operations and Consulting are also very popular fields. Operations has 986 of the total alumni to date and Consulting has 968. Engineering/IT has also attracted a considerable number of graduates from XLRI. This again implies that this is a great place for engineering and IT enthusiasts to polish their skills. In the education field you will find 227 XLRI alumni with 3 working as a part of the institute’s faculty.
Note that entrepreneurship is not far behind. A commendable percentage (366 alumni) has chosen entrepreneurship as their career. Thus, there are a few startups today that have XLRI founders.
Companies
Many reputed companies choose XLRI for campus placements. These include Accenture, IBM, and TCS among many others. Accenture is the lead recruiter with 175 hires by far followed by IBM, which has hired 140 graduates. Cognizant stands third and has recruited 135 graduates. Infosys and TCS stand fourth and fifth with 123 and 114 recruitments respectively.
Thus, XLRI is an excellent business school for various career options. This one definitely has to be on your list of preferred business schools!

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