season sushil kumar chairman placements iiml said despite the market scenario the campus succeeded in securing job offers for the entire batch while strengthening its relationship with regular recruiters and establishing new associationssubir verma chairman placements management development institute mdi gurgaon said usually we complete our placements in what we call in bschool parlance day0 this is the first time that we are doing our placement in four phases which started in endjanuary we are now looking at a larger set of recruiters for two reasons first the number of offers made by a single company has gone down secondly we have increased batch strength from 169 students to 269 students arindam chaudhuri dean centre for economic research and advanced studies iipm said nearly 1520 students have been placed so far this year which is marginally lower than last year also last years average package was 52 lakh which is now 42 lakh international placements were 165 and this year its 44 many companies like reliance adag and icici which recruited over 100 students have reduced their hiring to only a small fraction of that number as a result we have opted to bring in more companies this year many of these companies are from the sme and manufacturing sector and are visiting the campus for the first time further even though the financial sector has slowed down compared to previous years insurance and it are still big recruiters