Shillong, Feb. 9: IIM Shillong has continued its growth trajectory with summer internships for 2015-2016.

Around 61 companies made 174 offers across domains this year with the highest stipend of Rs 1,60,000 offered in sales and marketing. The average total stipend this year witnessed a 25 per cent jump from the previous year.

Prominent recruiters like Mahindra GMC, Aditya Birla Group, Nomura, HSBC, Cognizant Business Consulting, GSK Pharmaceuticals, Sapient Global Markets, TATA Steel, TATA Motors, ICICI Bank, IBM, Wipro, Hero MotoCorp, Tolaram Group, FCB Ulka and RBL Bank continued to recruit from IIM Shillong.

First-time recruiters include Google, L'Oreal, Dabur, OlaCabs, Amazon, Snapdeal, Fidelity Investments, Bajaj Allianz and Teach for India.

Ratnakar Bank Ltd and Tata Steel emerged as the largest recruiters with nine and eight offers, respectively. Sales and marketing emerged as the most sought after domain with 30 per cent of the total offers. Further, 22 per cent of the batch was offered profiles in finance. There was a hundred per cent increase in the number of manufacturing/retail and FMCG firms visiting the campus this year.

Prof. S.N. Bhattacharya, chairperson, student affairs, public relations and placement, attributed the improved numbers to the performance and credibility of IIM Shillong graduates in the industry.