City students strike it seriously rich

Shruti Setia / TNN / Jan 25, 2006, 02:17 IST

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Everyone Offered Big Money At UBS' Campus Placements.

CHANDIGARH: With campus placements about to conclude at University Business School (UBS), the students there are a contented lot, with the average salary offered being around Rs 5 lakh per annum.
Bigwigs from IT, HR and banking have chosen students from UBS this time. Infosys, Satyam, Vedanta Group of Industries, Orcale, CTS, Mafoi and Citibank have been added to the recruiters this time.Infosys has selected 12 students from marketing, finance as well as International Business (IB) with the highest package of Rs 6.6 lakh per annum.
AirTel has offered a package comparable to that of Infosys to three students, of Rs 6.25 lakh per annum. Another recruiter which UBS is proud of is eSys.
The chairman and MD of eSys Information Technologies, Singapore, Vikas Goel, is an alumnus of UBS and has made offers to seven students. The company has also offered foreign placements.

...Placement officer of UBS Dr Sanjay Kaushik said for the first time the public sector bank State Bank of India has also offered jobs to four students. Other than SBI, private sector banks HDFC and ICCI have selected students from UBS.
According to UBS authorities the placement has been better this time and they attribute it to good work put in by the faculty and students. Prof Satish Kapoor said, ��Just nine-ten students are left and they'll also be placed as more companies are lined up.''
The students for whom it's a dream come true, it wasn't an easy task. The placement tasks used to go on till late in the night and sometimes even stretch till morning.
The recruiters also include Eicher, ICCI Lombard, M&M, Career Launcher, Positive Moves, Philips, NIIT, JK, SBI Life, Kotak Bank and Life Insurance and ACC.

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