Nowadays, students with an engineering background are mostly preferring operations and supply chain management. Going for a career in Operations Management is a little risky and you have to choose the college wisely as quality placements in that field is provided by only a few institutes. Now you have certainly an inclination towards Symbiosis colleges and no doubt, they are very reputed ones.

SIBM (Pune) is a tier 1 B-school in India with a SNAP cut-off of 97+ percentile for Indian Students. That means you have to be among the top 2000 of some 50000 test takers and trust me, that is something. SIBM offers a wide range of specialisations from Marketing. Finance, Operations, Human Resources. The average package of Operations is 17.44 lakhs (2018-19 placement report) with companies like Cummins India, DCM Shiram, Bosch Limited, Deskera, Tata Communications, Societe Generale extending the offer of employment to the students.

SCMHRD (Pune) is also one of the eminent institutes in India while coming to courses in Human Resources but no doubt, it still retains its importance while coming to the other specialisations like Marketing, Finance, Operations, etc. The cut-off for SCMHRD remains slightly higher than SIBM Pune so there is more competition in getting oneself admitted to this college. For the top 50% of the batch in Operations, the median salary for the final placements is 14.5 lakhs per annum with companies like Amazon, Godrej, EY, GE, Deskera, Google and other companies extending the offer of employment to the students.

SIIB (Pune) is a college with courses dealing with International Business and thus the specialisations are also in the field of International Business. SNAP cut-off lies in the range of 88-90 percentile. Companies like Crisil, Asian Paints, Bajaj Finserv, L&T Finance have extended the offer of employment to the students and the average and median salary lies at 10.60 and 10.45 lakhs per annum respectively for the batch of 2017-19.

SIOM (Nashik) is one of the few colleges in India which is providing specialised course of MBA in Operations Management only. With a view of transforming an individual into techno business leaders, this college keeps a low SNAP cut-off of 75 percentile for the engineers(as Engineers are only eligible to apply). Functional comprehension of SAP and Six Sigma (Green Belt) are the stated USPs of this college. The average compensation for the freshers remain at 9.50 lakhs per annum while for the experienced people at 10.06 lakhs per annum. The highest package is 21 lakhs per annum. SIOM witnesses recruiters from Consulting, FMCG, E-Commerce, IT/ITES, Logistics and Manufacturing domains. Companies like GE, Godrej, Infosys, KPMG, Express Roadways are some of the organisations extending their offers to the 2018 batch.

For the summer placements or the internships, try to choose a proper role which best suites the career you want to pursue as the two months will provide a good CV point and will help you a lot in your final placements( if you haven’t got PPO).

Now, it all boils down to your choice as to which college you want to get to. If you really become serious for the two years of your MBA and enrich your CV with live projects, internships then you will definitely stand a chance of getting picked up by the reputed companies. A company looks for a candidate who possesses a good communication skill and someone who is thorough with the basics of the specialisation. Converting a good company is not a herculean task but a mix of luck and hard work.