LBSIM's 2024–26 placement report is still in progress
LBSIM's published report covers the 2024–26 batch, not students applying for the 2027–29 intake. The institute says placements were underway and that recruitment was continuing to ensure full placements. The figures below are therefore an interim snapshot, not a final placement rate. See the LBSIM placement report for the source table.
The report lists more than 85 recruiters, including 27 described as new, and 38 pre-placement offers or pre-placement interviews (PPO/PPI). These are different kinds of counts. Recruiters indicate organizations participating in recruitment; PPO/PPI combines offers and interview opportunities. The published extract does not give the number of students eligible, seeking a placement, or placed, and does not separate PPOs from PPIs. It is not possible to calculate a placement percentage from these totals.
The distinction matters because a recruiting organization count does not tell a student how many roles it offered, which programmes it recruited from, or how many offers were accepted. Likewise, the combined PPO/PPI figure should not be read as 38 confirmed jobs. LBSIM's report does not provide those breakdowns in the material captured here.
Read the salary figures as cohort summaries
For the 2024–26 batch, LBSIM reports a highest package of ₹24.00 LPA and an average package of ₹12.32 LPA for the entire batch. The highest figure describes one maximum outcome; it is not a typical salary or a likely result for every student. The batch average is a different measure, but the source extract does not state the exact salary sample size or the calculation method. Treat it as the institute's reported cohort average, not a guaranteed offer or a take-home amount.
The same report gives averages for selected top groups: ₹16.13 LPA for the top 10%, ₹14.19 LPA for the top 25%, and ₹13.11 LPA for the top 50%. Those figures describe group averages. They are not minimum salaries, placement rates, or a full distribution of offers. The report extract does not provide the median package, lower and upper quartiles, number of salary observations, or a programme-by-programme count of students placed. A reader cannot infer how many students earned above or below any of these averages.
The source also does not identify these figures as fixed pay, total compensation, or take-home pay. When comparing them with another institution's report, check whether both sources use the same cohort period, salary definition and respondent coverage. A headline maximum is especially sensitive to one high offer, so it should not be used alone to compare programmes.
Programme-wise averages are reported separately
LBSIM publishes these average-package figures by programme for the same 2024–26 report:
These are programme averages, not medians or guaranteed outcomes. The report extract does not give the batch size, number placed, salary sample size, or spread for each programme, so the small differences between the averages should not be treated as a ranking of programme quality. The PGDM programme page describes programme offerings and award information separately; use its current intake details to identify which programmes are accepting applications. The placement table is evidence about the labels and outcomes reported for the 2024–26 batch. In particular, the E-Business row should be retained as a historical report category and not assumed to be a current fifth programme without a current programme listing.
The report does not specify whether the programme averages use every student in each programme or only students with reported salary data. It also does not provide a programme-specific highest package in the excerpt captured for this article. Applicants comparing two programme rows should ask for the underlying cohort size, placed count, median and role mix before drawing a strong conclusion from a difference of a few tenths of a lakh.
What a 2027 applicant should verify
The report is useful as a dated view of outcomes for one graduating batch, but its status is provisional and its figures are not a forecast for the 2027–29 cohort. Before relying on a headline number, ask LBSIM for the final 2024–26 report and the placement basis: batch size, students eligible and participating, students placed, unplaced students, salary-reporting coverage, and whether the package measure is fixed or total compensation. Ask for the median and programme-wise distributions if those comparisons matter to your decision.
For the 2027–29 intake, check for an outcome report tied to that cohort when it is eventually available. Do not carry the 2024–26 averages forward as current-cycle promises. The available official extract supports a highest package, batch average, top-group averages, five programme-labelled averages, recruiter participation count and combined PPO/PPI count. It does not support a final placement rate, a median, a confirmed full-placement claim, or a salary distribution. Keeping those gaps visible makes the published figures more useful: they show what LBSIM has reported while leaving unanswered questions explicit.