What the latest cohort data says
The clearest comparable placement figures for IMT Hyderabad in the opened official sources come from its India Rankings 2025 submission to the Ministry of Education’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). That table covers the institution’s PG two-year programmes together, and its latest graduating year is 2023–24. In that row, 213 students graduated in the minimum stipulated time, 203 were reported placed, the median salary of placed graduates was ₹10.75 lakh per annum, and none were selected for higher studies. This is a reported programme-group result, not a separate outcome for PGDM Finance, Marketing or any other specialisation. NIRF 2025 institutional submission
The NIRF table gives three years of comparable data:
These rows are labelled PG [2 Years Program(s)] in the NIRF submission. The entering-year values in the same rows are a separate part of the table: the 2020–21 intake row has 207 first-year students admitted and leads to the 2021–22 graduating row; 2021–22 has 186 admitted and leads to 2022–23; and 2022–23 has 218 admitted and leads to 2023–24. Keeping those years distinct avoids treating an admission cohort label as the graduation year.
Read placement count and median together
For the latest 2023–24 graduating group, 203 placed divided by 213 graduates in minimum time is 95.3%. The comparable calculations are 97.5% for 2021–22 (198 of 203) and 92.5% for 2022–23 (172 of 186). These percentages are calculated from the two NIRF counts; they are not placement rates printed by IMT. The denominator is the graduates reported in minimum stipulated time, not the number admitted in the original intake or all students across both years.
The median salary was ₹8.55 lakh in 2021–22, rose to ₹11 lakh in 2022–23 and was ₹10.75 lakh in 2023–24. That is a ₹25,000, or about 2.3%, decrease from the 2022–23 median, while remaining ₹2.2 lakh above the 2021–22 figure. The three values describe different graduating groups; they do not establish a forecast for a new applicant or a guaranteed salary. NIRF reports the median for placed graduates, which is more informative about the middle of that placed group than a highest offer, but it still does not reveal each student’s offer or role.
How the brochure figures differ
IMT Hyderabad’s Admissions brochure also presents placement highlights: 120+ companies participated, highest CTC of ₹31 lakh, average CTC of ₹12.2 lakh, average of the top 10 offers ₹23.2 lakh, top 50 average ₹17.2 lakh and top 100 average ₹14.8 lakh. The brochure’s placement panel does not identify the graduating cohort in the extracted section. Treat these as brochure-reported highlights, not as a second version of NIRF’s 2023–24 cohort row. IMT Hyderabad Admissions brochure
The measures also differ. CTC, average offer and NIRF median salary are not interchangeable. The brochure’s ₹12.2 lakh average cannot be directly compared with NIRF’s ₹10.75 lakh median unless the underlying cohort, inclusion rules and pay definition match; the brochure panel does not provide those details. Likewise, its ₹31 lakh highest CTC describes a top outcome, not a typical one. The official sources opened here do not let a reader calculate a programme-specific median or compare outcomes across Hyderabad’s specialisations.
What the data does not establish
NIRF reports all PG two-year programmes together. It does not divide the three-year placement table by PGDM, Finance, Marketing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, role, sector, gender, prior work experience or domestic versus international offer. The submission records zero students selected for higher studies in each of the three graduating years, but does not explain the institute’s placement eligibility policy, the number seeking jobs, or how students who opted out were treated. Do not turn that zero into a claim that every graduate sought or obtained a job.
The published row also does not show salary distributions, fixed-versus-variable pay, joining status, location, internship conversion, or whether the reported placement count is based on accepted offers. Those are useful questions to ask at an admissions interaction. If comparing schools, align the graduation year, programme scope, denominator and salary measure first. A highest CTC from a brochure should not be compared with another school’s median, and NIRF’s minimum-time graduating group should not be mistaken for a complete batch census.
Questions to ask before enrolling
Ask IMT Hyderabad for the graduating cohort behind the current brochure’s CTC highlights and for a programme-wise breakdown that names the denominator. Request the median and placement count for the exact programme you intend to join, how the institute defines “placed,” and how many students were eligible, actively seeking work, placed, pursuing further study or not participating. Ask whether CTC includes variable pay, joining bonuses or benefits and whether amounts are annualised. The public NIRF submission gives a consistent historical baseline through 2023–24, but it does not answer those more granular questions.
For a conservative personal comparison, use the ₹10.75 lakh NIRF median only as the latest reported group-level figure in this source set, not as a promised starting salary. Keep the ₹31 lakh brochure maximum separate from the median and wait for a cohort-labelled final report before treating the brochure average as a matched comparison. Recheck IMT’s official placement page and the next NIRF submission for newer, properly scoped data.