Gurugram
(Haryana) [India], August 10 : Weeks after going viral
on LinkedIn for a placement record that outperformed 50% of IIMs, HiveSchool - India’s only revenue-focused business school
- has announced a set of transparency measures rarely seen in Indian education:
a placement report and video that name every single placed student along
with their story, the ability for prospective students to reach out to any of
them directly and independently of the institution, and a commitment from its
founder to personally answer every placement-related question.
Key
highlights:
●
Average CTC of ₹16.47 LPA and highest package
of ₹27.8 LPA for the 2025-26 cohort
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Median CTC of ₹15 LPA - a figure most
institutes decline to publish
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Top 25% average of ₹21.93 LPA; Top 50% average
of ₹18.63 LPA; Top 75% average of ₹17.65 LPA
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Placement season led by marquee recruiters
including Adobe, Yatra and Payoneer, with 50+ companies participating in the
process
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Every placed student named in the official
placement report and ‘Placement Decode’ video each with their individual story:
the role, the company, the journey
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Prospective students can reach out to any placed
student directly independent of the
institution, with no counsellor or school representative involved
The
announcement follows a familiar pattern in Indian education strong numbers met
with public scepticism. When HiveSchool’s placement statistics circulated on
LinkedIn, drawing comparisons with half the IIM list, the most common response
was disbelief that a young institution could post such figures.
HiveSchool’s
answer was not a rebuttal. It was a disclosure.
Unlike
conventional placement reports built on anonymous averages, HiveSchool’s report
and its official ‘Placement
Decode’ video account for every single placed student
of the cohort by name - along with each one’s story: the role they landed, the
company that hired them, and the journey through the season. There are no
aggregates hiding individual outcomes; every number in the report traces back
to a named person.
The
school has gone a step further on verification. Prospective students can pick
any name from the report and reach out to that student directly - independent of the institution. No counsellor
arranges the call, no school representative sits in, and the conversations
happen entirely outside HiveSchool’s involvement.
Alongside
this, Nikhil Gaur will personally respond to every placement-related query from
prospective students - on roles, companies, or compensation - without routing
them through a counsellor or admissions team.
“We’re
a young institution, and scepticism towards our numbers is fair,” said Nikhil
Gaur, Founder and CEO, HiveSchool. “We can’t expect students to simply take our
word for it nor should they. The most honest thing we could do was put every
name and every story on record, and let people speak to our students without us
in the picture. Trust in education has to be earned, and it has to go beyond
audits.”
“If
a student is going to invest a year of their life with us, they deserve to
verify everything first,” he added. “We’d rather be questioned openly than
doubted quietly.”
The
school attributes its outcomes to its pedagogy. The 9-month, full-time program
is built backward from the roles technology companies actually hire for -
Sales, GTM, Growth, Founder’s Office and Program Management with a curriculum
co-designed alongside recruiters and taught by practising revenue operators
from leading technology companies rather than career academics.
Students
spend the majority of the program on live work rather than case studies alone:
building and carrying real pipelines, running outbound and GTM projects for
operating startups, and training on the AI-native selling stacks used by modern
revenue teams - with a deliberate orientation toward US-facing B2B markets,
where a majority of the cohort’s roles were based. Assessments mirror the job
itself: capstones are pitched to and evaluated by senior revenue leaders, so
students graduate with work recruiters can examine, not just grades.
The
move lands amid a wider debate on placement reporting in Indian management
education, where institutes routinely publish averages without distributions,
and outcomes remain difficult for applicants to independently confirm. By
naming every student behind its numbers, publishing its complete percentile
staircase including the median and opening direct, unmediated access to its
placed cohort, HiveSchool hopes the disclosure sets a new benchmark for
placement transparency in the industry.
Founded
by Nikhil Gaur, Prabal Monga and Simar Sekhri, HiveSchool of Business
runs a 9-month full-time Post Graduate Program building revenue talent for the
global economy. The school, which featured on Shark Tank India, counts
operators from leading technology companies among its mentors.
Admissions
for the next cohort are now open. Prospective students can apply at www.hiveschool.co
