Gurugram, October 6, 2026: HiveSchool‘s Cohort 2 Interim Placement Report records an average CTC of ₹17.59 LPA, with the highest CTC reaching ₹31.5 LPA and the median CTC standing at ₹16.15 LPA.
The average package has risen from ₹16.4 LPA in Cohort 1 to ₹17.59 LPA in Cohort 2, showing an increase in average placement outcomes across the two cohorts.
With 40% of the batch receiving placement offers within the first month of the placement window, Cohort 2 has already recorded strong early placement activity. The placement process is currently underway, and the report will be updated as further outcomes are recorded.
A cohort does not place on one day. It places in waves. HiveSchool runs its placement window in four: Day Zero, where the first offers come from the room at Salespreneur, the institute’s flagship placement event; a second wave that closes at the end of month six; and two further waves as students in final rounds accept offers. The interim report is published while the window is still open, so the numbers can be read as they form. A final report, with every offer letter on file, follows at the end of month nine.
What the numbers say
The interim figures cover the 40% of the cohort that has accepted an offer. Average CTC stands at ₹17.59 LPA, the median at ₹16.15 LPA, the highest at ₹31.5 LPA and the lowest at
₹12 LPA. The top quartile of placed students averages ₹25.25 LPA and the top half ₹21.71 LPA. 71% of placed students are at ₹15 LPA or above.
The distribution is not skewed by a few outliers. Half of the placed students sit in the ₹15 to 20 LPA band, 29% in ₹12 to 15 LPA, 14% in ₹20 to 25 LPA and 7% above ₹25 LPA. Two offers above ₹30 LPA lift the top; the ₹1.44 LPA gap between the median and the average comes mostly from those two. No placed student is below ₹12 LPA.
Cohort on cohort
The interim figures sit above both previous final reports on every statistic. Against Cohort 1’s final report, the highest CTC has moved from ₹27.8 LPA to ₹31.5 LPA (up 13.3%), the top-quartile average from ₹21.93 LPA to ₹25.25 LPA (up 15.1%), the top-half average from
₹18.63 LPA to ₹21.71 LPA (up 16.6%), the average from ₹16.47 LPA to ₹17.59 LPA (up 6.8%) and the median from ₹15 LPA to ₹16.15 LPA (up 7.7%). In the institute’s first year (2024-25), the average was ₹14.76 LPA and the median ₹14 LPA (Annual Placement Report 2025-26).
Day Zero, held on September 5 at Salespreneur, moved the same way. 28 recruiters raised 62 interview requests in a single afternoon, and Day Zero offers ranged from ₹16 LPA to
₹31.5 LPA, against ₹12 LPA to ₹25 LPA the previous season.
Where the final number will land
Students placed first tend to place higher. As students in final rounds accept offers, the institute expects the average to settle at ₹15.8 to 16.8 LPA and the median at ₹15 to 16 LPA in the final report, with more than 60% of the cohort placed above ₹15 LPA. The forecast assumes that students in final rounds place in the ₹12 to 17 LPA band, where the lower half of the previous cohort landed. The report calls the forecast conservative by design: last cohort’s final average came in above the view the institute held at the same point in the window.
Where the cohort is placing
Offers so far fall into three clusters. In Tech & AI, SaaS, developer-tool and AI-native companies have opened roles including Founding BDR, Account Manager, Enterprise Partnerships, Founder’s Office (GTM) and GTM Enablement for AI. In D2C, consumer brands selling direct and through quick commerce have opened roles including Associate Brand Manager, Channel Marketing Manager, E-commerce and Quick Commerce Manager, Growth Marketing Associate, Founder’s Office and Chief of Staff; brands the institute has worked with in the category include PeeSafe, Fix My Curls, Big Boy Toyz, Protein Pantry, Nutrabay, 1970’s and Zoomies. In Consumer Tech & Services, platforms and service businesses including UpGrad and CX10X have opened Program Manager, Founder’s Office, Entrepreneur in Residence, Key Accounts Manager and AI Program Manager roles. Across cohorts, the institute’s recruiter pool is roughly 55% consumer and 45% SaaS and technology. Company-wise roles for the cohort will be published with the final report.
Report card, not brochure
Every figure in the report is built from offer letters and nothing else. Offer letters are collected from each placed student on acceptance and verified by the placement office before a number is reported. CTC is the overall compensation as written in the accepted offer letter, including ESOPs where they form part of the package. Students who receive multiple offers are tracked, but only the accepted offer counts towards the placement outcome. Average, median and band figures use placed students as the base; cohort shares use the full cohort. The report states that its figures are interim and will be restated at the close of the window.
That follows the standard the institute set in August, when it published a placement report and video naming every placed student along with their story, opened direct, unmediated access for prospective students to speak with any of them, and committed its founder to personally answering every placement-related query, and the Day Zero report published in September. HiveSchool was also named Emerging B-School of the Year by ET for building a programme where revenue roles are taught by operators and students place into them before graduating.
“Most placement reports are published once, at the end, when every number has been polished. We publish while the window is open. Forty percent of the batch has accepted offers, forty percent is in final rounds, and because the students who place first usually place higher, we have written into the same report that the average will likely settle lower
by the time the window closes. Last year our final number came in above our own forecast. We would rather the final report beats this page than falls short of it,” said Nikhil Gaur, Founder and CEO, HiveSchool.
Recruiters who have hired from the institute and returned to hire again pointed to how quickly the hires became productive. “The candidate we hired was ready for the floor on day one. That is rare from a first-year programme, and it is why we keep engaging,” said Ashish Cherian, Senior Director, Adobe. “We hired multiple students into US-facing roles. They ramped on outbound faster than comparable first-year hires we see elsewhere,” said Sapna, Head of GTM. “Our hire stepped into a founder’s office role and was contributing to growth work within weeks, not months,” said Arushi, Co-Founder.
After the offer
An accepted offer is the midpoint of the placement office’s work. Four calls follow every offer: an offer read-through, where fixed pay, variable at target, clawbacks and notice period are walked through line by line; a negotiation call, where there is room, prepared with the student or handled by the placement office directly; a 30-60-90 plan written before joining with a mentor from the same function; and check-ins at day 30 and day 90 with the student and the hiring manager, so that issues surface early.
The 9-month Postgraduate Program in Revenue, AI and Entrepreneurship is built backwards from the roles it places into. Delivered fully offline in Gurugram, it runs two foundation months on ideal-customer research, market sizing, outbound cadence and go-to-market basics against live accounts, a specialisation from month three in revenue, brand and growth, or founder’s office, and a placement window from month five that runs four routes in parallel: Day Zero, hiring challenges set by operating companies, on-demand hiring cohorts built around a single recruiter’s role brief, and off-campus pipelines run with the placement office alongside. Challenges this term were set by companies including Gartner, BrowserStack, BirdEye, Big Boy Toyz, PeeSafe and Culture Circle, and several placements started in those rooms.
About Hive School: Hive School is India’s first dedicated Revenue B-School. Its flagship 9-month Postgraduate Program in Revenue, Technology and Entrepreneurship is delivered fully offline in Gurugram and led by senior startup operators; the school also runs an AI Marketing Fellowship and undergraduate programmes. With a growing placement track record and a community of founders and investors behind it, Hive School is building business education for the next generation.
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