XLRI Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur Reviews

Exam: State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Faculty: My favourite teacher has deep knowledge in his field. He was a faculty at LBSNAA.
Exam: State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Placement: Good but can be improved
Exam: Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Faculty: Kangaraj
College: Rocking
Exam: State / National Entrance Exams

Placement: They are great
Faculty: The intensive pedagogy
College: One of the best Bschool in India
Exam: College’s Internal Written Exam

Faculty: International Exposure, Case Study Based Teaching, Up-to date knowledge
Exam: State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Placement: XL excels at it.
Faculty: Every teacher is too learned in their own field.. Comparing each other is like comparing apples and oranges...
College: XL does not need bragging. Only the people living here know the culture. Its not explainable in words.
Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, State / National Entrance Exams, College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Placement: Our SIP (Summer internship process) and Final placement process are conducted for over 2-3 days wherein the whole batch gets placed. As part of college culture, we do not indulge in merry making till the whole batch gets placed and stand united. We have a huge list of companies that our placement committee and other allied committees work hard to pitch to, receive and escort to our campus and even set up road shows and company presentations. Some of the companies even conduct online (video conferencing) interviews.
Faculty: Real life experience with over 20 years corporate exposure. Hence always keeps us abreast of the latest developments.
Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, State / National Entrance Exams, College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Placement: This year we saw a plethora of opportunities for our institution with a record 100% placement within 2.5 days. Some snippets for the same from our official report are – Largest ever batch of 361 students was placed in a record time of 2.5 days – Participation from 95 recruiters (inclusive of 25 new recruiters) – Around 48% of the batch was recruited by the FMCG, BFSI and Consulting firms – The top recruiters on campus in terms of numbers were Accenture Strategy (13), Microsoft (12), HUL (11), Flipkart (10), ABG (9), Citibank (9), Snapdeal (9) and Vodafone (9) – The median stipend increased by ~16% per month International Roles This year saw many international offers in internships. Companies like ABG, HUL, Kellogg’s, and Godrej among others opening up multiple international roles. Many more organizations are bound to get added to the list as they finalize their projects closer to the internship period. BFSI XLRI continued to strengthen its presence in the BFSI space with BFSI being the sector where most of the Business Management students chose to intern at. Carlyle continued to repose its faith in the institution by recruiting exclusively from XLRI. The European Hedge Fund after having offered its only PPO to an XLer returned to campus for the summers. JP Morgan Chase opened its Global Markets role for the first time at XLRI and ended up being the highest paying internship offer on campus. Avendus Capital continued to open its doors for XL for its front end PE Syndication and M&A Advisory roles. Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, DBS opened up multiple roles including the Markets, Corporate Banking, Retail and HR to name a few. Goldman Sachs offered Investment Banking roles. Barclays and Edelweiss were the new recruiters in this domain this year. The BFSI recruiter list also includes Private Equity Firms like an Angel Fund. Citibank was the largest recruiter in the BFSI domain. Indian Banks and Firms include the likes of Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and Yes Bank among others. CRISIL, the credit rating agency, opened up roles for HR students. FMCG HRM students continued to prefer the FMCG sector for internship opportunities with almost 18% of the batch interning in that sector. The Sales & Marketing enthusiasts were flooded with offers with the FMCG sector leading the way. HUL offered 11 internship roles, followed by Mondelez at 8 and GSK CH at 7. ITC and Kellogg’s closely followed at 6 each. Roughly 21% of this season’s offers were by FMCG recruiters some of which include Akzonobel, Asian Paints, Britannia, Castrol, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, GSK CH, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages, Johnson & Johnson Consumer, L’Oréal, Marico, Mars, Nestlé, Pepsi and Reckitt Benckiser to name a few. GSK CH, Pepsi, Coca Cola recruited interns for its Supply Chain roles as well. Consulting As compared to the previous SIP Process, XLRI registered a huge jump in the number of consulting offerings on campus. With an average of around 5 offers per organization, consulting firms like Accenture Strategy, Aon Hewitt, BCG, Cognizant, Everest Group, EY, Hay Group, KPMG, PwC got a pick of the best talent that XLRI had to offer. Accenture Strategy led this sector with 13 offers followed by The Boston Consulting Group and KPMG offering 7 offers each. All these companies opened their consulting roles for both BM and HRM batch. Conglomerate ABG lead the conglomerate pack with 9 internship offers. The regular Conglomerates offered an average of 6 offers. The Conglomerates who have time and again trusted XLRI for its talent pool include ABG, GE, Godrej, Mahindra, Reliance, RPG and TAS. Technology The Technology Sector showed a strong presence with participation from Industry stalwarts like Microsoft, Samsung R&D Institute (SRI), Wipro, Philips, Whirlpool, IBM, HCL, Siemens, CISCO etc. Microsoft returned for its IDC and Sales and Marketing role along with HR. Healthcare Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories was the new participant this year which also included the regular recruiters like GSK Pharma and Roche with roles across Sales & Marketing, Operations and HR domains. Other Sectors Vodafone continued to fuel its expansion plans in the country with talent from XLRI by taking 9 interns closely followed by Airtel (8) in the Telecom space. E-Commerce and Start-Ups Flipkart, Snapdeal, Quikr and Ola Cabs made their presence felt from the E-Commerce sector. Startups like PharmEasy and Zo Rooms also participated in the summer internship process and together, the e-commerce and startups domain accounted for 8% of the internship offers. Tata Steel, Hero Moto Corp from the manufacturing domain were highly favored among XLers. Star TV, Sony Entertainment, Bennett & Coleman and HT Media recruited from the Media Sector with Star TV leading the way with 7 internship offers. In addition, Shell India and Castrol India from the Oil & Gas Sector and CESC from the Power Sector also recruited talent from XLRI.
Faculty: Termed as the "Finance God" on our campus it has to be Prof. Sabhyasachi Sengupta. With a bevy of degrees namely CA, CS and ICWAI he has immense knowledge on the subject. His pedagogy is the perfect blend of theory and practice and the experience of being a student can only be felt as words fail to ’tangibilise’ the intangibles.
College: XLcesior “The XL culture can only be experienced and cannot be explained” These words straight from our dean’s mouth are the most apt description for life at XLRI. In this article I’ll try to ’tangibilise’ Life at XLRI has been a roller coaster ride. Right from Day 1, every new day is like an adventure to seek, a new road to tread upon and a new quest to be conquered. The thing that strikes any individual first is the humility that is ingrained in our very system. Despite the myriad backgrounds that each individual comes from, XLRI offers equal opportunity to all, and consequently, builds in us a sense of respect and humility in every person. Studying in the best private business school institution ensures that everyone has a stellar profile, and that brings out the competitive streak in us. That however, is merely a streak; not the all-pervading aspect of ever XLRI student, because in the face of opposition, we know we have hands that will hold us steady and act as shoulders to rely on. Take our seniors, for example. They are there to help us even the day before their exams. They’ve conducted multiple sessions to inform us and Nothing can be more uplifting than this motivation we can constantly depend on. The beauty of this motivation is that it is not served to us in doses only when called upon, but it is a constant verve that is synchronized to our heartbeat. The raw passion that every XLRI student has is self-evident and is the driving force of this institute. One only needs to look at this brief chronology of what has transpired in the past week to get a glimpse of the passion that drives this premier B-school. The first week is an orientation week of all sorts. The entire community is actively involved to smooth en the process of transitioning to a new environment, to ensure that at the end, we feel we’re part of a big family.Needless to say, life out here is hectic, but fulfilling. The first week saw a mix of orientation, sessions on subjects, overnight marketing competition (Maxi), getting to know half of the senior and junior batch and most importantly, ourselves. From second week onward sleep becomes a prized resource. In fact the host of activities ensure we are still going strong 4 am in the morning. The mix of surprise quizzes, assignments, case study competitions, committee selections, interest group participation, sports etc ensures that there’s always something for everyone. Taking an evening stroll in the hallowed portals at 3 am, unleashing the photographer in us , engaging in um covalent bond matching, or having a legendary bite at Bishu Da.The attraction exists outside the campus too! Brubeck’s, the Tata Zoo, the Bistupur Market area etc. teaches us to find joy in little things. Coming to the third week well there’s a conundrum between skipping that breakfast, attending an early morning class,deciding on assignment submission, or simply not leaving my bed at all! Multitasking reaches a new level when committee selection, group task, case studies and various other assignments need to be completed in the same time window. That’s what the first month (nearly) at XLRI is about. Did I mention previously that birthday nights and other XL traditions are best when experienced? Trial by fire takes place (quite literally!) for the uninitiated.  Moreover, XLRI guarantees that we learn the best of the Indian traditions. While interacting with mini India we learn about the best of the Indian culture more than what we have in our entire life! P.S. The rest will only be disclosed if you arrive here on campus ;-)!! The warmth of the entire fraternity ensures the aptness of the title "Home away from home". What I’ve learnt so far  is that getting into a premier B-school is not success. It is an opportunity which thousands yearn for but few get. An opportunity which can be life changing for the society in general and an individual in particular. It is only the B-school, and what you choose to take away from it that determines how impactful the change will be.  And I know that being from XLRI means that each one of us is going to be a harbinger of change.
Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview, Video, Essay Writing & General Knowledge

Faculty: Real life experience with over 20 years corporate exposure. Hence always keeps us abreast of the latest developments.

Faculty: Termed as the "Finance God" on our campus it has to be Prof. Sabhyasachi Sengupta. With a bevy of degrees namely CA, CS and ICWAI he has immense knowledge on the subject. His pedagogy is the perfect blend of theory and practice and the experience of being a student can only be felt as words fail to ’tangibilise’ the intangibles.

Faculty: He uses case based approach. The textbook is for individual learning.

Faculty: P.K. Padhi, Way of teaching

Faculty: Prof Padhi- Law

Faculty: Uday Damodaran as he compels us to take the unbeaten path

Faculty: Tamonas Gangopadhay, Crystal clear concepts

Faculty: Ram Kumar Kakani | Consistent Preparation and Application based study methods

Faculty: PhD and cases published

Faculty: Santosh Sangem

Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: State / National Entrance Exams

Exam: State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, State / National Entrance Exams, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: Based on School / 12th Class Result, College’s Internal Written Exam, Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: Group Discussion / Personal Interview

Exam: College’s Internal Written Exam