IIDE placements 2025–26: reported outcomes and eligibility
IIDE’s latest placement highlights page captured for this article is labelled 2025–26 and says 93.3% of students eligible for placement were placed in that cycle. The figures are published by IIDE itself, not an independently audited placement dataset. IIDE does not give the number of eligible students, the number included in each salary average, or a student-level placement denominator on this page. Read the percentages and salary figures as the institute’s reported outcomes for its stated scope, not as an estimate of an individual student’s chances.
Figures IIDE reports for 2025–26
LPA means lakh per annum. The page uses “package” and “LPA” but does not provide a placement-level salary schedule or define what components are included in each package. Compare offers using the employer’s written compensation breakup, fixed pay, variable pay, location and role. The ₹19 LPA highest package should not be read as the likely outcome for a new student or as a guarantee that a student will receive an offer at that level.
IIDE’s page also separates freshers from working professionals: it reports a ₹10.5 LPA highest package and ₹4.8 LPA average for freshers, and ₹19 LPA as the highest package for working professionals. It does not publish a separate average for working professionals in the captured section. These subgroups have different prior experience; do not combine or compare them without the underlying cohort counts and calculation method.
Offer mix and role areas
IIDE says 41% of offers were full-time roles, 37.3% were pre-placement offers, and 21.7% were internships. It summarizes the first two categories together as more than 75% of offers. The page reports offer types, not the percentage of students who received each type. A student may receive more than one offer, and the page does not explain whether the percentages use offers, students or another base. Treat them as IIDE’s offer-mix figures, not a student placement rate.
The roles listed include Social, Content & Creative, Performance Marketing, Generalist Marketing, Client Servicing & Business Development, and Analytics & AI. The recruiter table names companies and gives hire counts for some of them, including 25 hires each for PivotRoots and Publicis Groupe. Those are the page’s reported counts and do not show the full number of participating students, all recruiters, hiring terms or the distribution of offers by programme.
Placement assistance has eligibility conditions
IIDE’s published Terms and Conditions describe placement as assistance rather than a job guarantee. Its placement policy says a student must maintain at least 80% attendance, receive a minimum passing grade of 70% in applicable modules, assessments, live projects and capstone projects, attend all Career Services Team pre-placement sessions, score at least 70% on the Placement Eligibility Test, and successfully complete a mock interview before outreach begins.
The same policy describes placement outreach and job-search support after eligibility is confirmed. It also says IIDE does not guarantee a job placement. Meeting the published conditions therefore makes a student eligible to participate in the assistance process; it does not mean a job or salary is assured. Confirm the current policy for your exact programme and batch, because attendance, evaluation and placement requirements can change.
What to ask before enrolling
- Ask which programme and graduating cohort the 2025–26 figures cover; the highlights page does not give a detailed programme-by-programme outcome table.
- Request the placement report or underlying cohort table, including the eligible count, placed count, students who opted out, and salary sample size.
- Ask how “placed” is defined and whether internships, pre-placement offers and full-time jobs are counted separately.
- Ask for median compensation and a clear salary basis if you need a measure less sensitive to a single top offer; the captured page does not publish a median.
- Check the placement eligibility rules for your course and the timing for opting in to Career Services.
- Compare roles and written compensation terms, not only the highest package or overall average.
A useful comparison should use the same programme, graduation year and outcome definition across institutions. If you are comparing the 93.3% figure with another school, first check whether each school counts only placement-eligible students, all enrolled students or only students who opted in. A rate with a narrower eligible pool can look different from a whole-class placement rate even when the number of offers is similar. IIDE’s captured page does not provide those additional counts, so request them instead of trying to calculate a new rate from the published percentage.
Scope and freshness
IIDE’s highlights article says it was updated on 18 September 2026 and labels the results 2025–26. It is a historical cycle report, not a forecast for the 2027–28 intake. The figures do not prove that every programme, campus or student had the same outcome. Ask IIDE for the cohort-specific placement report and eligibility policy before relying on any percentage in a personal decision.