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Top Career Options After MBA

MBA is a degree that plays a vital part in your advancement and outcome and allows you to transform into a fully equipped professional with all the necessary skill sets. This article talks about the top career options after an MBA and its scope.

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Published on 20th February 2025, 4:00 PM 

The MBA is a two-year postgraduate degree that offers top career options across myriad industries. MBA is a degree that plays a vital part in your advancement and outcome and allows you to transform into a fully equipped professional with all the necessary skill sets. 

Job Opportunities After MBA

Achieving an MBA degree in India paves the way for numerous career options, enabling professionals to move up in the corporate world and immensely impact their selected field. So, as the world of business evolves, the need for skilled and competent leaders continues to grow. Here are some of the top career options after successfully completing your MBA:

> Investment Banking 

> Entrepreneurship

> Marketing Management

> Human Resource Management

> Supply Chain Management

> Information Technology Management 

> Healthcare Management 

> Data Analytics

> Public Relations 

Scope of MBA In India

One of the best advantages of an MBA is that it offers a plethora of specializations. It offers a wide range of opportunities for pupils to work in various industries. Aside from this, an MBA in a specific specialization is not limited to only one field, and the pupils can change to a different sector whenever they like to. In the table below, we have listed some of the sectors where graduates of MBA are always in huge demand.

Sectors

Details

Media Sector 

Pupils have plenty of options in both the private and government firms. With an average yearly salary varying between Rs 2 LPA to Rs 10 LPA, students can search for job opportunities in print media, broadcast media, internet media, and so on. A few of the high-end paying jobs in this field are media executive, digital advertising specialist, channel head, TV producer, etc.

IT (Information Technology) 

The Job opportunities offered in this sector include project manager, systems manager, analytics manager, data processing manager, etc. The average yearly salary can sum up to Rs 12 LPA.

Hospitality Sector

In this sector, pupils can expect job positions such as general manager, director of sales, marketing manager, management consultant, and more. The average yearly salary can range from between Rs 3 LPA to Rs 10 LPA. Pupils have excellent options in hotels, cruise ships, airlines, hotels, and so on.

Banking & Financial Institutions 

Graduates of MBA offered job roles including marketing & sales manager, financial analyst, credit & risk manager, and so on. This sector provides many career options with an average yearly salary ranging between Rs 3 LPA to Rs 20 LPA based on their job positions.

Retail & Corporate Sector

In this sector, the job positions are offered based on their MBA specializations, which include store technology keeper, store manager, store marketing manager, category manager and so on. However, it solely depends on your skills and capabilities, and you can choose a role that best suits your goals. 

Entrepreneurship 

Graduates of MBA may want to set up their own business or they may receive reputable roles at established companies such as financial management, business operations, information security, and many more. The demand for MBA grads has been rapidly increasing, with an average yearly income of Rs 5 LPA to Rs 20 LPA.

Management Consultant

In this sector, highly skilled individuals are hired who would be able to solve organizational problems, adopt new ideas,  and be able to come up with new problem-solving techniques.

Manufacturing Sector

Industries that require support with data analysis and supervising complicated supply chains hire grads of MBA. In this sector, the job positions offered to MBA grads are project manager, purchase manager, and organisational consultant, etc., with  an average yearly income of Rs 4 LPA to Rs 12 LPA 

Education Sector

A few of the job positions in this sector are education technology manager, education reform manager, education policy manager and so on.

Top MBA College for Placements

As per the 2024 placements data, the MBA average salary package of some of the elite institutions are listed below: 

Name of the College/Institutes

MBA Average Salary

IIM Bangalore

INR 35.92 LPA

IIM Calcutta

INR 35.07 LPA

SPJIMR Mumbai 

INR 33 LPA

XLRI Jamshedpur

INR 29.89 LPA

IIM Lucknow

INR 30 LPA

SIBM Pune

INR 28.16 LPA

IIM Kozhikode

INR 28.05 LPA

SMJSoM IIT Bombay 

INR 28.01 LPA

IIM Shillong

INR 26.10 LPA

IIM Indore

INR 25.68 LPA

MDI Gurgaon

INR 25.50 LPA

TISS Mumbai 

INR 25.28 LPA

NMIMS Mumbai

INR 25.13 LPA

Salary Expectations For MBA Graduates Based On MBA Specializations

The salary will vary based on the MBA specializations you choose. So it is wise to choose your specializations wisely and one must know the MBA scope and the salary. Below, we have listed the specialization-wise salary expectations for MBA graduates:

MBA Specialization 

Average Salary

MBA Finance

INR 7 LPA

MBA Business Analytics

INR INR 6 LPA

MBA Marketing Management

INR 7.5 LPA

MBA Logistics Management 

INR 6.25 LPA

MBA Operations Management 

INR 8.7 LPA

MBA Data Analytics

INR 4.3 LPA

MBA Human Resource Management 

INR 6.3 LPA

MBA Entrepreneurship 

INR 5.5 LPA

MBA Information Technology 

INR 12 LPA

MBA International Business 

INR 8 LPA

Top Recruiters For MBA Students

Some of the top recruiters that offers career opportunities to MBA graduates are given below:

TATA Consultancy Services 

Infosys

Cognizant

Reliance Industries Limited

Wipro

Amazon

Aditya Birla Group

Flipkart

Microsoft

Bain & Co.

Google

ITC

Boston Consulting Group

Goldman Sachs

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Coca-Cola Company

ICICI Bank

State Bank of India

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