IIM Kozhikode placements: 2025 outcomes and batch scope
IIM Kozhikode’s official Final Placements Report 2025 covers the 2023-25 graduating cohort: the 29th PGP batch and the sixth batches of PGP-Finance and PGP-Liberal Studies & Management (PGP-LSM). Across that reported cohort, the institute lists 561 students participating and 169 recruiters. Its headline figures are mean CTC of ₹28.18L, median CTC of ₹27.50L and highest CTC of ₹81L. Treat these as historical outcomes for the named combined cohort, not a guarantee or forecast for students entering in 2027-29.
Headline figures: mean, median and highest CTC
The median gives a useful middle point: half the reported observations fall at or below it and half at or above, subject to the report’s grouping. The ₹81L highest CTC is an individual upper-end outcome and should not be read as a typical salary. Mean and median are separate summary statistics, and the report’s aggregate combines students across PGP, PGP-Finance and PGP-LSM. IIMK does not break these headline values into programme-specific medians in this report excerpt, so applicants should not assign the combined figures to one programme alone.
These are CTC figures, not guaranteed fixed monthly pay. CTC may include components whose timing and certainty differ; use the employer’s offer to understand fixed compensation, variable pay, benefits and any joining or retention conditions. The report does not state an independently audited placement rate or guarantee that every student received an offer, so this page does not infer either from student and recruiter totals.
Where offers were concentrated
IIMK’s report divides offers across six domains. Consulting accounted for 32%, Finance 19.2%, General Management 16.4%, Sales & Marketing 14.4%, IT & Analytics 13.5% and Operations 4.5%. These shares sum to the report’s total and describe offer mix, not student preference or the probability that a particular applicant will enter a domain.
The domain view helps show why one campus-wide average can hide very different role markets. Consulting had the largest offer share and the highest listed average among the six groups. Finance had a lower average but included the report’s ₹81L top outcome. IT & Analytics and Operations reported averages around ₹28L, while General Management and Sales & Marketing were around ₹25L. These are reported domain-level outcomes for the 2025 cohort; they do not establish what any one student will earn or which role will be available in a future cycle.
Recruiter participation and process
The report records 169 total recruiters, 57 new recruiters and 13 international offers. It highlights opportunities across consulting, finance, general management, sales and marketing, IT and analytics, and operations. Examples of roles named in the report include strategy and technology consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, product management, data science, supply chain management, category management and marketing. Recruiter names and roles show the breadth of that season; they are not a forward-looking list of employers committed to the next batch.
IIMK says final placements take place at the end of the second year for final-year students. It describes company slot allocation as a democratic slotting process that starts in January. Students who accept lateral-placement offers are signed out and become unavailable for final placements; receiving an offer during final placements also signs a student out of the process. This is the institute’s published process description, not a date guarantee for a specific future cycle.
How to use these results when comparing programmes
Start with the cohort and programme labels. The 2025 report combines the 29th PGP batch with the sixth PGP-Finance and sixth PGP-LSM batches. Compare it with another institute’s report only after checking whether the same graduating years, programmes and salary definitions are included. Do not compare this combined median with a programme-specific mean as if they were the same measure.
For a practical salary read, use the ₹27.50L median alongside the ₹28.18L mean, then inspect the domain relevant to your goals. Keep the ₹81L highest CTC in context as the top outcome. Before making a decision, review the next published placement report and your eventual offer terms. Outcomes vary with cohort composition, market conditions, roles and recruiter demand, and IIMK’s historical figures do not promise a future result.
A useful comparison worksheet should keep at least four labels beside any salary number: graduating batch, included programmes, statistic (mean, median or maximum), and whether the figure is CTC or fixed pay. The ₹0.68L difference between this report’s mean and median is small relative to the headline values, but it does not reveal the full salary distribution. The report does not state how many students received at least one offer in the excerpted summary. Because of that, dividing or comparing the recruiter count with the participant count would not produce a placement rate. Look for an explicit placed-student count and a defined denominator before comparing placement percentages across institutes.