SOIL Institute of Management Placement 2025: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Recruiters & Trends

SOIL Institute of Management PGDM Placements

The two-year PGDM is run out of the Manesar campus and is built around a mostly fresher cohort. The Class of 2025 profile recorded 76% freshers and an average work experience of four months, which keeps entry-level CTC bands as the dominant salary driver.

Recruiting for the Class of 2026 ran in two visible phases. An interim disclosure in March 2026 placed close to 80% of the cohort two months before graduation, and the remaining offers closed out by the end of the cycle.

Key Takeaways:

• Average CTC has moved up every year since 2021-22, from INR 9.7 LPA to INR 11.83 LPA, a rise of about 22% over five cycles.
• The top quartile has been flat at INR 14.27 LPA for two consecutive years even as the top half improved from INR 12.97 LPA to INR 13.48 LPA.
• Highest CTC is volatile because it reflects single offers. The INR 27 LPA peak in 2023-24 came from the marketing cohort and has not been matched since.
• Recruiter count more than doubled between 2022-23 and 2024-25, from 49 firms to 130 plus.

PGDM Sector-Wise Hiring, Class of 2026

Technology and financial services together absorbed almost two-thirds of the batch. BFSI share rose sharply compared with earlier cycles, where manufacturing and consulting held larger slices.

PGDM Function-Wise Roles, Class of 2026

Strategy and consulting roles formed the single largest function bucket, followed by business development. HR roles accounted for 14%, which is high for a general management program and reflects SOIL's long-running HR recruiter base.

PGDM Specialisation-Wise Placements

SOIL last published a specialisation-level salary split in its Final Placement Report 2024-25. Finance led on both the highest offer and the average, while HR trailed on average CTC despite a strong top offer.

The same report also logged a top 10% CTC of INR 15.65 LPA for the 2024-25 cycle. Specialisation figures for the Class of 2026 have not been disclosed.

SOIL Institute of Management PGPM Placements

PGPM is the 12-month program for candidates who already hold work experience, so its placement cycle runs as a lateral hiring process rather than an entry-level one. SOIL reports that average CTC after the program is about 2.5 times the pre-program salary.

Of the Class of 2026, 95% opted for campus placements. The remaining 5% stayed out, split between 1% pursuing entrepreneurship and 4% on company sponsorship or sabbatical.

Key Takeaways:

• Average CTC has risen in each of the last four cycles, from INR 11.5 LPA in 2022-23 to INR 13.9 LPA in 2025-26.
• Recruiter participation jumped from 60 firms to 106 in a single year, the sharpest change in any SOIL dataset.
• Reported ROI has fallen from 152% to 122% across the same four years. The absolute salary rose, so the decline points to a higher program cost base rather than weaker outcomes.
• The top-quartile figure was nearly unchanged year on year at INR 18.85 LPA, while the third quartile moved up from INR 13.5 LPA to INR 15.01 LPA. Gains were concentrated in the middle of the batch.

PGPM Sector-Wise Hiring, Class of 2026

Consulting is a much larger share here than in the PGDM pool, and analytics plus AI appears as a separate bucket.

PGPM Function-Wise Roles, Class of 2026

More than a third of PGPM offers were consulting roles, which is the clearest structural difference from the PGDM function mix.

SOIL lists recent PGPM alumni placed as a Solution Specialist at McKinsey and Company, a Consultant at Bain and Company, and a Career Development Manager at BCG. The institute reports an alumni base of 2,500 plus for this program.

SOIL Institute of Management PGPM-HR Placements

PGPM-HR is the 12-month human resources specialisation and is the only SOIL program whose placement page has not yet been updated to the Class of 2026. The latest audited cycle on record is the Class of 2025.

For that cohort, 98% of the batch opted for placements and 98% of them were placed at an average of INR 11.2 LPA. The 2% who stayed out of the process went into entrepreneurship.

Key Takeaways:

• Average CTC was nearly flat between 2021-22 and 2023-24, moving within a band of INR 10.7 LPA to INR 10.8 LPA, before rising to INR 11.2 LPA in 2024-25.
• The top quartile made the biggest single-year move, from INR 13.7 LPA to INR 16.5 LPA.
• Reported ROI has fallen in every cycle shown, from 163% to 100%.
• Average CTC for PGPM-HR runs about INR 2.7 lakh below the general management PGPM in the same cycle.

PGPM-HR Sector-Wise Hiring, Class of 2025

The HR cohort draws a distinct recruiter set alongside the mainstream firms. Named hirers include Michael Page, PeopleStrong, ZingHR, Benepik, Rolling Arrays and World Education Services.

SOIL states that more than 50 CHROs engage with the program each year, and reports an average CTC roughly 2.0 times the pre-program salary. The program's alumni base is listed at 2,000 plus.