The recruitment drive saw participation from over 160 domestic and international recruiters, a release by the institute said.

The highlight of the placement season was participation of esteemed firms like Alvarez & Marsal, BlackRock, Advisors, MasterCard and o3 Capital which marked the ascent of IIM-L as a preferred recruitment destination for marketing, finance and consulting roles in the country, it said.

The top four segments based on roles offered were sales and marketing (25 per cent), finance (22 per cent), consulting (21 per cent) and business development including some extremely sought after and niche profiles in the finance domain.

The rest of the offers came from domains such as operations/supply chain, general management (7 per cent), systems/IT (10 per cent), market research, analytics and HR.

Some of the top recruiters across different sectors were Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Avendus, Flipkart, Hindustan Unilever, P&G, TAS and The Boston Consulting Group, the release said.