Ask an MBA student who hires from their campus and you'll usually hear the consulting firms first. They are the biggest recruiters. But IIM Bangalore's 2026 placement report shows a fuller picture, and it matters for how you spend your prep time.
The headline numbers
For the PGP and PGPBA batch of 2024–26, final placements came out like this:
Where the offers went
Sector shares of final offers, as reported by IIM Bangalore. Labels shortened.
Consulting is the largest single sector at 45%, so it makes sense that most case prep is built around it. But that still leaves more than half of the offers going elsewhere. The second-biggest group, at 14%, is IT software, analytics and product management.
Who made the most offers
| Company | Offers |
|---|---|
| Accenture Strategy | 94 |
| Boston Consulting Group | 27 |
| Bain & Company | 23 |
| EY-Parthenon India | 22 |
| American Express | 15 |
| Kearney | 13 |
| Tata Consultancy Services | 11 |
| Deloitte | 10 |
| Fujitsu Consulting | 10 |
| Amazon | 9 |
| McKinsey & Company | 9 |
Further down the list are companies such as Goldman Sachs, Shadowfax, Tekion, Aditya Birla Group, Media.net, GMR Group and Navi, each with five to seven offers. In the summer placements for the next batch, Hindustan Unilever and Amazon each made 10 or more offers.
What this means for your prep
- Don't prepare only for consulting cases if you're aiming at product, marketing, sales or general management roles. Those interviews often use case-style questions too, but with different content: users and features, budgets and channels, pipelines and pricing.
- Get comfortable with a data table. Whatever the role, being handed numbers and asked what they mean is common, and it's where many candidates describe instead of calculating.
- Practise under time pressure. Knowing a framework is different from using it in eight minutes with someone watching.