Apr 18: Imarticus Learning shared its placement outcomes for FY 2025–26, reflecting strong learner hiring momentum across its finance and data science programmes. Across three of its flagship offerings – the Certificate in Investment Banking Operations (CIBOP), the Postgraduate Financial Analysis Program (PGFAP), and the Postgraduate Program in Data Science & Analytics / Machine Learning with GenAI (PGA) – the company facilitated over 3,000 full-time placements during the year.
These three programmes represent a part of Imarticus Learning’s broader active portfolio. Across all programmes, the company estimates that placements for FY 2025–26 have crossed 4500, with a combined annual salary value of over ₹160 crore.
Beyond the numbers, these outcomes reflect meaningful career progress for learners across India, including many first-generation finance and technology professionals from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. For several graduates, these opportunities mark an important milestone toward long-term career and financial stability, with roles secured across global financial institutions, technology firms, and leading digital enterprises.
Commenting on this, Nikhil Barshikar, Founder and CEO of Imarticus Learning, said ,
“The education sector today needs to focus on outcomes. 4500 placements in one year, across finance, data science, and AI, with 500+ companies hiring our learners. The model is straightforward: train people in what the market actually needs, and take responsibility for the outcome. That’s what we’ve built Imarticus Learning to do, and the numbers this year show it’s working.”
Investment Banking Operations: Scale, Consistency, and Global Brand Access
The Certificate in Investment Banking Operations (CIBOP) recorded 2186 placements in FY 2025–26, with placements logged in every single month of the year, including a peak of 243 in January 2026 alone. Q3 (October–December 2025) emerged as the strongest quarter, with 715 placements at an average CTC of ₹4.5 LPA. The program’s highest offer stood at ₹15 LPA. These are the most placements in finance for freshers by any program at any institute in India.
The hiring roster reads as a cross-section of global financial infrastructure: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Nomura, Societe Generale, Citi, Northern Trust, MSCI, and more institutions whose back-office and middle-office operations are increasingly staffed by talent trained in India by Imarticus Learning. State Street Bank emerged as the program’s single largest hiring partner, absorbing 374 CIBOP graduates, accounting for one in every six finance placements in the year.
Of the 2186 placed students, 75.7 percent secured roles directly relevant to their area of training: Investment Banking Operations, Fund Accounting, AML/KYC, Client Services, and Wealth Management. Nearly half the batch, 47.4 percent, crossed the ₹4.5 LPA threshold, and 16.2 percent secured packages of ₹6 LPA or above. Across the full batch, the average CTC of ₹4.5 LPA for a program primarily serving fresher and early-career profiles reflects meaningful compensation at market entry.
Geographically, placements reached 14 cities. Mumbai (581) and Bangalore (386 placements) led by volume; together, the top six centres accounted for 83 percent of all finance placements. The West region delivered the highest average CTC at ₹4.5 LPA, while the South, led by Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad, contributed 44.6 percent of total CIBOP volume.
Notably, 14 percent of placed students secured roles independently, a data point that reflects confidence in the program’s market credibility among employers.
Financial Analysis: Premium Outcomes for a Mixed-Profile Batch
The Postgraduate Financial Analysis Program (PGFAP) placed 161 students across 65 companies, recording a highest CTC of ₹14 LPA, an average of ₹6 LPA for freshers, and a median of ₹5 LPA. Nearly one in three PGFAP students, 29.7 percent, crossed the ₹5 LPA mark. 12 percent of freshers crossed ₹7 LPA, and 7 percent crossed ₹8 LPA, placing the Financial Analysis Program among the strongest fresher-outcome financial analysis programmes in the country.
What sets the Financial Analysis Program apart in the data is its batch composition: 92 of the 161 placed students came in with prior work experience. That a post-experience program continues to place reliably at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, CRISIL, MSCI, State Street Bank, and more firms with structured and selective hiring processes reflects both the quality of the training pipeline and the employer demand for finance-specialised talent with practical grounding.
Q3 delivered PGFAP’s strongest average CTC at ₹6.5 LPA, the highest quarterly average salary figure across any program in this placement cycle. The NCR centre led placement volume nationally, contributing 59 of 161 total PGFAP placements, reflecting strong demand for finance-trained talent in the Delhi NCR market.
Data Science & AI: India’s Largest Fresher Placement Programme in Analytics and AI
The Postgraduate Program in Data Science & Analytics / Machine Learning with GenAI (PGA) placed 582 students across 302 unique hiring companies, by far the most diverse employer base across all Imarticus Learning programs, and by available industry benchmarks, the highest number of fresher placements in Data Science, Analytics, and AI by any institute in India for FY 2025–26.
The highest offer reached ₹23 LPA, placed at Hexagon, a global industrial analytics firm. The average CTC was ₹6 LPA for freshers, with 25.3 percent of the batch crossing ₹6 LPA and 17 students crossing ₹10 LPA.
The 302-company hiring roster spans technology, banking, e-commerce, healthcare, energy, market research, and manufacturing, an unusually wide sectoral spread that reflects the cross-industry applicability of data and AI skills. Marquee names in the hiring list include Flipkart, NTT Data, HDFC Bank, Wipro, Hitachi Energy, Pfizer, Cartesian Consulting, and Furlenco. The presence of Pfizer and Hitachi Energy alongside India’s largest e-commerce firm signals that the Postgraduate Program in Data Science & Analytics with GenAI graduates are entering traditional industries alongside high-growth technology firms.
Notably, this year’s placement cycle saw a marked increase in dedicated AI roles. Among the emerging job titles secured by the program’s graduates are ‘AI Innovation Associate’, ‘ML Engineer’, ‘GenAI Analyst’, and ‘Applied AI Developer’, reflecting the current hiring wave in applied artificial intelligence across Indian and global enterprises. The program’s curriculum, which integrates machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and generative AI with hands-on capstone projects, is designed to produce graduates who can step into these emerging roles.
Placements spanned 11 cities nationally, with South and West regions contributing nearly equally, 178 and 172 placements respectively, an unusual geographic balance for an analytics program. Pune led among centres with 100+ placements; Coimbatore, a Tier-2 city, contributed 35, a signal of growing demand for Analytics and AI professionals beyond metro markets.
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