ISB PGPYL students grab 175 offers in summer internship 2025; highest stipend at Rs 7.3 lakh

The inaugural batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Management for Young Leaders (PGP YL) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) received over 175 summer internship offers in this year’s placements. The highest stipend grabbed by the PG students of the 2025-27 batch stands at Rs 7.3 lakh.

With an average work experience of 11 months, the PGPYL batch recorded an average stipend of Rs 3.2 lakh in ISB summer placements 2025. Recruiters from diverse sectors including consulting, banking and finance, FMCG, technology, conglomerates, manufacturing, and others participated in the placement drive.

Consulting services emerged as the top hiring domain, accounting for 47% of all internship offers. Accenture is the top recruiter in the sector with 37 offers. McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and Boston Consulting Group collectively gave out 19 offers to the students. Other leading consulting firms, including EY-Parthenon, PwC, and Deloitte USI, also participated in the campus placements, offering roles focused on strategy, analytics, and business transformation.

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Besides consulting, finance, investment advisory and private equity firms extended 19% of internships, with participation from firms such as Jefferies, Mastercard, Barclays, Sorin Investments, DSP Asset Managers, JM Financial, Motilal Oswal, and Axis Bank.

ISB summer placement 2025

The FMCG sector contributed 11% of offers. Organisations such as HUL, ITC, Colgate-Palmolive, Dabur, and Castrol recruited for roles in brand management and marketing strategy. Technology firms accounted for 10% of offers with participation from Amazon, Media.net, Practo, and Ola, which majorly hired for product management roles.

Conglomerates constituted 7% of opportunities, with the Aditya Birla Group, Hinduja Group, Adani Enterprises, and Jindal offering positions spanning business operations, transformation, and strategy. The remaining 6% of roles spanned operations, strategy, and emerging technologies in Hero MotoCorp, Country Delight, William J Clinton Foundation, and Oyo Rooms.

Professor Deepa Mani, deputy dean, academic programmes, ISB said, “This inaugural PGP YL cohort, with an average of just 11 months of work experience, has demonstrated that our programme provides students with not only increased knowledge, but grounding and practice in modern work environments that help them compete for strategic, high-impact roles in leading organisations.”

"The breadth of recruiters and the quality of roles reflect both the academic rigour of the programme and industry's recognition of what young talent can achieve with the right foundation. Our focus has been on building skills that translate directly to workplace performance: technology, data, analytical decision-making, and strategy implementation,” she added.