XLRI is a well-reputed university known for its management courses all across the country. NIRF ranked it at #9 in the management category, The Week at #4, and India Today at #3 for its MBA Course. The PGDM courses offered by this university have a dedicated focus on marketing and international business. PGDM for General Management Program and Business Management have Marketing Management as one of their main subjects.

Below mentioned are some of the highlights of the PGDM for Marketing courses offered by XLRI:

Admission and Entrance Criteria:

• General Management Program (GMP): The students seeking admission in the General Management Program of XLRI must have a UG Degree in the relevant discipline and a full-time job experience of 5 years.
• Business Management (BM): For admission in BM and HRM programs, students must have passed 3 years of Bachelor’s Degree exams from an AICTE recognized university and should have a work experience of 3 years.

XLRI accepts XAT or GMAT as its entrance exams for its PGDM programs, where the candidates are shortlisted based on their sectional and overall scores. The cut-off for XAT first round in the recent examinations was 96. Further, the selected candidates are required to undergo the GD and PI rounds, based on these rounds the final admissions are granted.

Tips for Preparation:

• The percentile in XAT exam is calculated based on three major sections VALR, QADI, and DM. So one should concentrate on these three sections while preparing for XAT.
• It is essential to prepare as per the proper XAT pattern and indulge in as many mock tests as possible.
• Try to solve as many sample tests as possible in real time as time management is a key issue.
• For GD & PI round, hone your communication skills and surf the web for previously asked topics to prepare accordingly.

Campus Placement:

• Average placement rate has been around 90%
• Highest CTC offered was 48 LPA
• Average salary offered was 22.6 LPA
• Some of the leading recruiters are Accenture strategy, Dell, HCL, Amazon and Axis Bank

XLRI being an old and one of the most reputed institutes of the country is also ranked as the best private management college by various surveys. Getting into any college matters on how well prepared one is and how diligently the individual has worked for it. It is on the individual to carefully scrutinise the course in a particular college and then decide.

Xavier Labour Relations Institute or XLRI is located at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, and XIM University Bhubaneswar is situated in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. For the year 2020, XLRI was ranked 9th by NIRF in the Management category. XIM University had a ranking of 31 in the Management category list of NIRF 2020. 

Fee Structure:

XLRI:

• The first-year fee for PGDBM is INR 11.8 Lakhs. The course duration is 1 year.
• The institute also offers PG Diploma for 1 year 3 months. The fee structure for the program is INR 20.95 Lakhs.

XIM University:

• The first-year fee for MBA is INR 8.6 Lakhs. The course duration is 2 years.
• The institute also offers EMBA for 1 year. The fee structure for the program is INR 3.6 Lakhs

Scholarships:

• In XLRI, students are offered scholarships of Rs. 1.75 LPA.
• In XIM University, scholarships are offered to SC/ST/Economically Backward/Minority with a 50% course tuition waiver and on the basis of merit.

Placement - 

• XLRI has an Alumni base of more than 16,000. 
• In the year 2020, the IT/ITES sector was the largest recruiter with 30% of the total offers., 90 XLRI students were placed in the year 2020. The highest international CTC was Rs. 58.22 LPA and the highest domestic CTC was Rs. 26 LPA.
• At XIM University, Accenture was one of the major recruiters, with over 29% of the eligible students placed. 

The table listed below gives a brief overview of the placement for the year 2020:

Campus Life

XLRI

• It has an Interdisciplinary Behavioral Lab, designed specifically for the study of human subjects. 
• There are many extracurricular societies and Interest groups like Dracula, SIGMA - Oikos, AXIOM, Bodhi tree, CEASE, etc. 

XIM University?

• It has the Bloomberg Terminal service for access to real-time data, news, and analytics. 
• There are many interest committees like EXEMPLAR, LITSOC, and XCUBATE. 

The decision for best college can be made with all the above available information, along with your perception of college branding and the ROI which is on an average 0.65:1 for XLRI and 0.93:1 for XIM University.

Any professional who is from HR understands exactly what a business requires and manages the whole process from hiring an employee to their exit with talent management & development, compliance, engagement, etc. 

Setting up organizational design and development for organizations are also covered by HR professionals. The employees are just a small aspect of the bigger picture. 

• My friend worked at the corporate compensation team and he used to simply work on his PC all the time. Getting into HR was because of the simple fact that he was good with numbers. 
• MBA programs that offer specialization in HRM, such as XLRI PGDHRM cover all the topics mentioned above in their course work. This is why people for HR roles are taken from XLRI. 
• According to the recent statistics, the major companies coming to the campus for recruiting HR students are McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc. 

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