Placements

IIM Lucknow’s official Final Placement Report 2024-25 covers the Batch of 2025. The overview names the 39th Post Graduate Programme (PGP) batch and 20th Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGP-ABM) batch, and says the cycle secured 604 offers. Its batch-profile page shows an overall size of 583. The report does not call those 604 offers 604 placed students, and it does not provide a placement rate or the number of students who sought placement in the overview. (IIM Lucknow Final Placement Report 2024-25, pp. 3-4)

The same overview reports mean and median salaries of ₹32.3 lakh and ₹31 lakh per annum. It lists the highest domestic salary at ₹75 lakh per annum and the international figure at ₹65 lakh per annum. Those are separate headline measures for the combined PGP and PGP-ABM placement cycle; the report does not break these four headline numbers down by programme. The 2024-25 report should not be treated as an outcome forecast for another intake or as data for MBA-SM, PGPWE or IPMX.

How to read the salary figures

The ₹32.3 lakh mean is ₹1.3 lakh above the ₹31 lakh median in this report. That modest gap between the two published summaries gives a more useful centre-of-cohort reference than either top package. The ₹75 lakh domestic and ₹65 lakh international highs are individual upper-end figures, not typical outcomes. IIML’s report does not identify the number of international offers or give a country-wise salary basis, so the international figure should not be compared with the domestic high as if both represented similar groups.

The batch profile lists 583 students overall, while the overview lists 604 offers. Offers and students are different units: the report does not explain whether offers include multiple offers to a person, opt-outs, or all offers issued before acceptance. It also does not state an eligible-placement denominator beside these summary figures. Applicants should therefore use the reported mean and median as salary summaries, and avoid calculating an offer rate from 604 divided by 583. (IIML report, pp. 3-5)

Reported role mix

The report’s function chart allocates placements across consulting (38%), general management (21%), finance (15%), IT, technology, analytics and product (14%), sales and marketing (8%), and operations (3%). These displayed percentages add to 99%, which is consistent with rounded chart values; the PDF does not show underlying counts alongside the chart. Consulting and general management together account for 59% of the displayed mix, so those functions dominate this particular batch summary. That comparison describes the report’s chart, not the probability that an individual applicant will receive a role in either function.

The batch profile also shows the incoming cohort’s prior-work distribution: 250 people with 0-1 years, 118 with 1-2, 129 with 2-3, 63 with 3-4 and 23 with more than four years of experience. The profile’s total is 583. It is background about the cohort, not a placement outcome or a basis for predicting salary by experience band. (IIML report, pp. 4-5)

Domain-level CTC summaries

Separate pages display highest and mean CTC by domain. The values below are the report’s own domain charts; they are not the cohort-wide mean and median above. IIML does not publish the number of candidates or offers behind each domain mean in these pages, so treat them as descriptive group summaries rather than a programme-wise or function-wise salary guarantee.

The domain chart reinforces why the headline ₹32.3 lakh mean should not be substituted for a role-specific expectation: the six domain means span ₹28.2-36.6 lakh, and each applies to a different group. The highest values also vary by domain. IIML supplies no sample sizes here to explain how many people contribute to each mean, and the report does not state that every domain is open to every student. (IIML report, pp. 6-9)

Recruiters shown in the report

The key-statistics page prints the following counts beside its top-recruiter names: Accenture 54, Deloitte 29, PwC 24, BCG 23, American Express 21, EY 18, McKinsey & Company 11, Kotak 9, Bain & Company 7 and Zomato 7. The report labels these “Top Recruiters” but does not define whether each count is accepted offers, offers made, or another measure. Read them as the report’s displayed recruiter counts, not as a guaranteed number of hires in a future cycle. It separately identifies first-time and legacy recruiter lists, but the logos on those pages do not supply comparable student-level outcomes. (IIML report, pp. 5, 10-11)

For applicants, the most defensible comparison is between the batch-level median and mean, followed by the function and domain summaries that match the work they want to pursue. The report is institute-published and useful for understanding that one cycle, but it does not disclose a placement rate, domain sample sizes, programme-specific salary medians, or MBA-SM, PGPWE and IPMX results in these figures. Ask the placement office for the report’s counting basis and cohort-specific data before treating a recruiter count, highest package or domain mean as a personal expectation.