IIM Lucknow’s Noida Campus publishes separate placement reports for its International Programme in Management for Executives (IPMX). The latest report available in this source set covers the IPMX Class of 2026, not every programme at the campus and not the 2027-28 intake’s future outcomes. It describes a small, experienced executive cohort and reports both campus-process offers and outcomes through other routes. Read the salary figures alongside those denominators and the report’s own exclusions.
IPMX Class of 2026: the reported outcome snapshot
The 18th IPMX batch had 114 students, with about eight years of average industry experience. The report says 108 students were seeking employment and six company-sponsored students opted out of the placement process. It records 92 job offers through the campus process, eight through other means such as off-campus offers or returning to a parent organisation, and eight students without employment as of 15 April 2026. These are the report’s separate student and offer counts; they should not be converted into a placement rate by adding offers or treating each offer as a different person.
The published median CTC was ₹27.00 lakh per annum and the average was ₹27.65 lakh. The report explicitly excludes joining and retention bonuses and employee stock options (ESOPs). It also gives average CTC of ₹37.89 lakh for the top 10% and ₹31.56 lakh for the top 50%. These are cohort summaries, not an individual salary promise, and the top-group averages are not substitutes for the cohort median.
The rolling process began in the first week of November 2025 at the Noida Campus and used virtual and on-campus recruitment. About 39% of the batch secured placements in the first week. The report lists 29 companies making final offers, with 35% hiring from IPMX for the first time. A new recruiter share is a measure of participation, not a guarantee of future demand or recurring offers.
What the roles and transitions suggest
The Class of 2026 report separates functional and industry mix rather than giving one campus-wide outcome. Its functional categories include consulting, strategy and management consulting, project management, product management, sales and business development, analytics and digital strategy, supply chain and operations, program management, finance, and marketing. The industry categories include consulting, IT, ITeS, BFSI, data analytics, logistics and transport, infrastructure, education, and power or energy. These are cohort mix labels, not placement probabilities or the number of vacancies in each field.
Those distributions help an experienced applicant test fit: the report shows a sizeable consulting and technology footprint alongside product, operations, sales, and analytics work. They do not show how many positions were available in each role, how many applicants pursued each function, or the pay attached to a specific role. The report separately says 79% changed their previous function or role and 78% moved industries. Those percentages describe this cohort’s reported transitions, not an expected result for an individual.
The report also states an average 54% increase from pre-MBA to post-MBA CTC. It is a cohort-level comparison. The published document does not provide the underlying individual salary pairs or a distribution of increases, so it cannot tell a reader what their own increase would be. Compare this figure with the cohort’s experience profile and the report’s employment counts rather than using it as a return-on-investment forecast.
A useful comparison with the previous IPMX report
The Class of 2025 report gives a median CTC of ₹27.19 lakh and average CTC of ₹27.72 lakh, also excluding joining and retention bonuses and ESOPs. For Class of 2026, the corresponding figures are ₹27.00 lakh and ₹27.65 lakh. The two report editions therefore show similar cohort medians and averages, with a small decline in both measures; they do not establish a salary trend for future batches. The cohorts differ in size and reporting date, and each report should be read on its own terms.
The Class of 2025 report recorded 110 graduates, five opting out, 105 eligible for placements, 95 placements through the campus process, four offers from other means, and six students without a job as of 16 April 2025. As in the later report, the campus-process placement and other-means figures are reported alongside a separate count of students without a job. Avoid dividing an offer count by the eligible count and calling the result a placement rate: the report does not present that calculation as its official rate, and offer totals are not necessarily unique people.
The role mix also moved between reports. Consulting represented 41% of the Class of 2025 functional mix, compared with 24% in 2026; sales and business development was 18% in 2025, while project management was 15% in 2026. This is useful context for how one executive cohort’s distribution can vary, but the reports do not show whether this reflects applicant preferences, role availability, or a durable shift in employer demand.
Keep programme and campus scopes separate
These figures belong to IPMX at IIM Lucknow’s Noida Campus. They are not placement statistics for the institute’s Lucknow-campus PGP or PGP-ABM cohorts, and they should not be transferred to Noida’s PGP for Working Executives, MBA in Family Business, Executive Fellow Programme in Management, or Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management. The reports cited here do not provide a campus-wide placement median or a shared outcome measure across those programmes.
For an IPMX applicant, ask the programme office for the latest report, its cut-off date, the definition of “seeking employment,” and how offers from off-campus recruitment or return to a sponsoring employer are counted. If you are comparing two cohorts, keep CTC distinct from fixed salary and check whether bonuses and ESOPs are included. For a role-specific decision, request the role-level denominator and compensation distribution; this report’s functional percentages describe the mix of students, not placement probabilities.
The practical reading is narrow but useful: the Class of 2026 report shows a ₹27.00 lakh median CTC for its IPMX cohort, substantial consulting and technology representation, and multiple employment routes. It also records eight students still without employment at its April 2026 reporting date. Those details are more informative than a headline average alone, but they remain historical cohort evidence rather than a promise about the next intake.