IIM Bangalore Placement 2026: Salary, Packages & Recruiters

The PGP and PGPBA Class of 2026 posted a median package of Rs 34.75 lakh. Management consulting took 45% of all 665 offers. Those two numbers explain each other. The IIM Bangalore median is a the median combined for PGP + PGPBA placement cohort.

Three forces produce it. First, concentration. Management consulting took 45% of every offer made, more than three times the next sector. Second, one recruiter. Accenture Strategy alone made 94 offers, roughly one offer in seven for the whole batch. Third, narrowing. Overseas offers fell from 22 in 2025 to 7 in 2026, and the median still rose Rs 2.14 lakh, or 6.6%.

Put the three together and the reason becomes clear. The headline climbed on domestic consulting demand, not on breadth. The 2025 batch posted a median of Rs 32.61 lakh and an average of Rs 34.88 lakh, and the 2026 batch posted Rs 34.75 lakh and Rs 35.35 lakh, per the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore's own audited placement reports. Out of 605 registered students, 596 went through final placements and took 665 offers between them. See the IIM Bangalore overview for how this outcome sits against the Rs 26,00,000 PGP fee.

What is the number a typical student here actually earns? It is the median, not the average. A handful of very high offers lifts the average without changing what most students received. IIM Bangalore's own placement reports publish no single highest-CTC figure, unlike several peer institutes. That leaves the median and the average as the only two numbers to plan a career decision around.

The median climbed year on year. Overseas offers fell sharply in the same year, from 22 to 7. That is the cost of the structure that produced the median: domestic consulting demand carried the headline, and international hiring did not. If an overseas role is your goal, read the 7 rather than the Rs 34.75 lakh. Do not treat the 2025 batch's 22 overseas offers as the normal level.

596 of the 605 registered PGP and PGPBA students went through the 2026 final placement drive. They took 665 offers between them, so some students held more than one offer before they chose. Nine students opted out of placements. IIM Bangalore's audited report states that count and gives no reason for it, so this page states none either.

A note on two IIM Bangalore documents for the same batch. The institute's own press release counts 664 offers against 596 students and puts Accenture at a consolidated 101, while the audited Placement Report 2026 counts 665 offers against 605 students with Accenture Strategy at 94. This page follows the audited report, the stronger of the two documents.

Has IIM Bangalore released the latest salary data? Yes, in its audited Placement Report 2026. The report states the median and the average directly and leads with neither a single top offer nor a range. Many B-school placement stories take the opposite approach, where one outlier package carries the headline and the typical outcome sits further down.

IIM Bangalore's official placement reports combine PGP and PGPBA into a single Class of 2026 figure. It publishes no separate median or average CTC for either programme. The report does separate the recruitment cycle type. Pre-placement offers reached 283 made and 219 accepted, and lateral offers reached 96 made and 88 accepted, both ahead of the final placement week itself, per IIM Bangalore's own Placement Report 2026. A candidate choosing between PGP and PGPBA on salary alone will not find a programme-wise split in IIM Bangalore's own data.

Management consulting took 45% of all offers in the 2026 cycle, the largest sector by a wide margin. IT and analytics roles took 14%, finance and banking 11%, and e-commerce, payments and telecom together 10%. Accenture Strategy's 94 offers alone outnumber the next four recruiters in the table combined.

About 35% of the 177 recruiting companies recruited at IIM Bangalore for the first time that year. The recruiter base widened. The offer mix did not. Who this suits: a candidate targeting strategy or management consulting. Who should check twice: a candidate targeting an overseas role, marketing or operations, where the batch's own offer share is far thinner.