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IIM-Ahmedabad summer offers up 60%

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IIM-Ahmedabad summer offers up 60%

Even as start-ups surprisingly grabbed all the attention at the summer recruitment process for the 2006-08 batch at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad this year, a good 45 per cent of students chose international shores.

Also, there has been a 60 per cent increase in slot zero offers as compared to last year. 49 per cent of the 246 students appearing for placements got placed at the coveted slot zero of placements or the first day of campus recruitment wherein students get to pick some of the best companies in the world.

On this day, certain companies are invited before hand, based on the priority of students. 101 more students were placed by slot one while 110 students out of 246 are going to international locations for their summer internships.

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