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VANGUARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Introduction Vanguard is founded by IIM & XLRI alumni with the objective of creating industry-ready achievers for Corporate India. The programs at Vanguard are designed keeping in mind the right mix of practical Business Knowledge, Industry Skills, and the Attitude of an achiever. A uniquely designed Mentorship Program with more than 50 industry experts from various industries will provide personalised guidance to each Vanguard student. History

Board Of Directors Promoters and Investors of Vanguard Business School are alumni of IIMs and XLRI. The team has more than 72 years of combined experience in the field of management entrance coaching and has interacted extensively with both the students as well as the management institutes. It has seen a huge gap in the static delivery of these B-Schools and the dynamic requirement of the industry. Vanguard Business School with the Mission of ‘Creating Frontline Managers’ with the requisite knowledge, skills and attitude seeks to address this gap. ARKS Srinivas, Director PGDCM – IIM Calcutta, B. Tech – Osmania University arkss@vanguardbschool.com

Ulhas Vairagkar, Director PGDM - IIM Ahmedabad, B. Tech. - Nagpur University ulhas@vanguardbschool.com

Rahul Reddy, Director PGDM – IIM Calcutta, B. E – Kakatiya University rahul@vanguardbschool.com

Balasubramanian, Director PGDM – IIM Ahmedabad, B. Tech – IIT Chennai bala@vanguardbschool.com

Ajay Arora, Director PGDBA – XLRI Jamshedpur, B.Tech – Manipal Institute of Technology ajay@vanguardbschool.com

Nishant Priyadarshi, Director PGDM - IIM Kozhikode, B. Tech. – NIT Kurukshetra nishant@vanguardbschool.com

Vidyalakshmi R, Director PGDM IIM Ahmedabad vidya@vanguardbschool.com

Campus Central Lobby This is the central lobby for the campus where all the main discussions happen and brainstorming takes place

Library at Vanguard The library has a massive collection of books ,journals, periodicals, magazines. IT LAB State of the art facility and ample technical assitance

Conference /Board Room Student Classroom Mentorship/Academic At Vanguard, we strongly believe that theoretical knowledge should be supplemented with a healthy dose of practical industry knowledge. Hence, we have created a unique Industry Mentorship program where practicing managers from various corporations will provide one-on-one mentorship to students at Vanguard. The Industry mentors will provide guidance on the following areas Clubs Course : PGPM or PGPM +MBA Events on Campus (Vihaan, Vyuha) HR Conclave Convocation Society/ Groups

Student’s Achievements Prashant secured first runner up position in the in StockMind Season II - a national competition on stock investing for college students by ICICI. StockMind, one of the largest online inter-collegiate festivals in the Indian BFSI space, which is participated by over 78000 students and 550 colleges in 60 cities. Abirami and Ujwal secured second place in the event Vipanikriya (Marketing event) in the National Level Management Fest NAMAN Organized by IFIM, Bangalore. Sudarshan and Abishek Jain secured first place in the event Arya Vitta (Finance event) in the National Level Management Fest NAMAN Organized by IFIM, Bangalore. Arvindh Kumar won the second prize in an article writing competition held at LIBA, Chennai on branding. Arvindh kumar and Abirami R published an article in MBASkool.com on “Role of HR in building business leadership”. Sudarshan and Prashant secured first place in the finance event in Operacy - National Level Management Fest at Kirolskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar. Chakravarthy and Nirmal secured first place in the operations event in Operacy - National Level Management Fest at Kirolskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar. Gurucharan, Arvindh Kumar & Narendra Kulkarni secured first place in the Entrepreneurship event inOperacy - National Level Management Fest at Kirolskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar. Amit Upamanyu and Swayang Prakash Kar secured second place in "Not just Black & White” ( Pencil sketching competition) in “Masti ki Artshala”, A cultural fest organized by IIM-Bangalore. Snigdha Saha secured first place in theme event - Sky fall in “USHUS-'12”, A Management Fest Organized by Christ University, Bangalore. Sandhya and Rohit K secured second place in Sellocalypse - Marketing event in "Revelation-'13", A Management Fest Organized by Symbiosis Institute Of Business Management, Bangalore. Sudarshan S secured first place in the event Agragami (Budding Manager) in the Management Fest Organized by Institute of Public Enterprise (Osmania University Campus), Hyderabad Abishek A Jain secured second place in the event Agragami (Budding Manager) in the Management Fest Organized by Institute of Public Enterprise (Osmania University Campus), Hyderabad Sudarshan S secured first place in the event Nivesh (Portfolio Management) in the Management Fest Organized by Institute of Public Enterprise (Osmania University Campus), Hyderabad Harin Shah secured second place in the event Nivesh (Portfolio Management) in the Management Fest Organized by Institute of Public Enterprise (Osmania University Campus), Hyderabad Chandra mouli. R and Harin Shah Secured second place in Kurukshetra (Launch Pad) in the Management Fest Organized by Institute of Public Enterprise (Osmania University Campus), Hyderabad

Placements Vanguard Business School takes great pride in sharing its final placement report for the 2014 cycle. The second Placements season at VBS has been nothing short of spectacular. As was the case last year, VBS continues to be among the first business schools in Bangalore to complete 100% placements this year despite an almost 70% increase in the batch size! It gives us great pleasure to note that the stellar work of the placement team and the effectiveness of placement training process at Vanguard ensured that for the Second straight year, we’ve capped off 100% placements well ahead of almost all Top B-schools in Bangalore*. The verdict on Vanguard’s “Frontline Managers” has been overwhelming – almost all of last year’s recruiters have returned offering higher packages. The plethora of new companies that have taken part in the Second Placement process is a resounding stamp of Industry’s belief in the employability of Vanguard students and the steadily increasing impressiveness of the profiles of successive batches at Vanguard Reference : websites http://www.vanguardbschool.com/vbs-placement-reports EMAIL US AT: media@vanguardbschool.com ; edboard@vanguardbschool.com ; presi@vanguardbschool.com ; studentcouncil@vanguardbschool.com; placements@vanguardbschool.com

VANGUARD PLACEMENTS A PERFECT SCORE: VANGUARD ACHIEVES 100% PLACEMENT Vanguard Business School (VBS) is proud to report the completion of its very first Final Placement Process. The year 2013 has been a difficult year for placements with top B-schools including the IIMs reporting difficulties in terms of placements due to a slowdown in the economy. Under such difficult circumstances Vanguard B-school Bangalore is proud to report 100% placements. This success of the placement for the PGPM, Class of 2013 represents the triumph of 2 years of continuous efforts from Vanguard’s Team Management, Placement Committee and Students. Apart from some IIMs, very few management institutions in the country have been able to successfully place all their students within this fiscal year – another testimony to Vanguard’s Corporate Connect and Rigorous Training in placing students. It gives us immense pride to share the Placement Report for the PGPM Class of 2013, Vanguard Business School. MULTIPLE SECTORS AND JOB PROFILES – AN OUTCOME OF VANGUARD’S IIM ALUMNI MENTOR NETWORK The core philosophy of Vanguard is to offer our students, the widest range of Industry Sector and Job profile choices. Vanguard’s strong and extensive network of Mentors with IIM/Top Bschool backgrounds helped ensure that some of the big names in a variety of sectors took part in the placement process. It was the result of the same network that many IIM Alumni founded/run corporations like Photon Infotech, Latent View, YLG, Four Fountains Spa, V2Solutions, FACE, Redwood Associates visited the campus for placements. Most of these firms have otherwise, historically only visited the Tier 1 Bschools in India. For the 35 students of Class of 2013, a total 26 companies representing as many as 16 sectors participated in the process .Such a huge range in terms of sectors is unheard for the size of this batch - another clear indicator of VBS’s Corporate connect and will to offer choices A noteworthy highlight of the entire process was the inclusion of Everstone Capital, from the extremely coveted sector of Private Equity in our process, confirming that even as a new Business School our fundamentals and reach match those of the best(Top 20) in the country. A total of 40 offers were made which meant that a few companies had to go back empty handed, highlighting the ability of VBS, Bangalore to place greater number of students over the coming years. BEST RETURN ON INVESTMENT: OVER 100% PGPB - 2011-2013 Vanguard Business School’s focus has always been on delivering high quality industry focused education at the lowest possible cost, delivering best return for the hard earned money of the student.

For an institution that prides itself in offering the best in management education at an affordable cost this has indeed been a spectacular beginning.

Indeed as the batch profile gets better each year this average salary will rise significantly. This can be seen from the fact the top 20% students of the batch had an average salary of 5.7Lacs/Year.

PGPB- 2012-2014 FINAL PLACEMENT REPORT – 2014: BEST IN BANGALORE #1 Vanguard Business School takes great pride in sharing its final placement report for the 2014 cycle. The second Placements season at VBS has been nothing short of spectacular. As was the case last year, VBS continues to be among the first business schools in Bangalore to complete 100% placements this year despite an almost 70% increase in the batch size! It gives us great pleasure to note that the stellar work of the placement team and the effectiveness of placement training process at Vanguard ensured that for the Second straight year, we’ve capped off 100% placements well ahead of almost all Top B-schools in Bangalore*. The verdict on Vanguard’s “Frontline Managers” has been overwhelming – almost all of last year’s recruiters have returned offering higher packages. The plethora of new companies that have taken part in the Second Placement process is a resounding stamp of Industry’s belief in the employability of Vanguard students and the steadily increasing impressiveness of the profiles of successive batches at Vanguard

This achievement is even more extraordinary given that the current markets which have resulted in Tier 2 B-schools achieving less than 18% placement according to research done by the leading media house NDTV1. Vanguard has been able to resist market conditions for the past 2 years and consistently bring the best opportunities for its students. KEY TAKEAWAYS •	An incredible 58 companies took part in the placement process (up from 26 last year) vying for the 60 students who took part in the Final Placements 2014 •	This year’s placement stats boast prominent recruiters from Industry that typically visit only Tier–1 colleges viz. CRISIL, HSBC, Mu Sigma, Colgate-Palmolive, Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm , Dun and Bradstreet , Pantaloons , Praxair and Hindalco •	We saw all the big name recruiters from the previous year returning to Campus like General Mills, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company, Photon Infotech, Latent View Analytics, YLG Salons & Spas and ICICI Securities •	This year also saw many fresh additions to our recruiter pool such as Zomato, Info Edge, Hinduja Leyland Finance, Magma Fin Corp, Jubilant Retail, Advaith Hyundai, Printo and Akshayapathra

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER •	This year saw a new start in 2 VBS students taking the Entrepreneurial plunge. Vanguard strongly believes in the transformational potential that entrepreneurship can play for India’s society and economy. Vanguard also has a robust mentor support for budding entrepreneurs with a three-year deferred placement support in place for such students. NEWER AND HIGHER MILESTONES ACHIEVED •	Number of Companies – This year’s 58 Companies is an impressive 123 % increase over last year’s 26 Companies. Given that the batch strength was up by 71% over last cycle what this means is that despite the larger student pool – Each student had access to more recruiters compared to last year!

•	Highest Package - Last year our highest package was 5.9 lakhs. This cycle we not only breached the 6 Lakh milestone – not a one off, twice in fact and stopped tantalizingly short of our next milestone! At 6.9 Lakhs our highest package is not just a 16 % improvement over last year but coming from a HSBC for core finance role it is a reminder to us that in just three years we have traversed the journey from being an unknown entity to one that the best of recruiters have faith in.

•	Number of offers with packages greater than 5 lakhs – The number of such offers shows an amazing 100% increase over last year. Last year there were 12 such offers in total. This year there were a whopping 24 such offers (40% of our batch size!!)

•	What is a seriously impressive statistic is that on every measurable parameter, placements 2014 surpassed placements 2013 and VBS looks forward to surpassing several more milestones in the upcoming placements cycle

PROFILES ON OFFER: REACHING BIGGER & BETTER PROFILES While the numbers are very impressive the real success lies in the more serious aspect of the nature of jobs and profiles that were on offer this cycle. •	Finance profiles made a forceful entry this year with Finance Majors HSBC and CRISIL offering Credit Analyst profiles. •	Consulting profiles also made a debut with the Associate Consultant profile being offered by Feedback Consulting. •	Other prominent roles on offer this year include Risk Management by Dun & Bradstreet as well as Product Manager profile offered by Reliance Jio Infocomm. •	Our students also managed to bag offers from marquee advertising firms - Ogilvy and Mather and Lowe Lintas •	FMCG Major Colgate-Palmolive was a key addition to our list of elite recruiters •	Telecom Major Airtel also made its debut as a recruiter at VBS and was in fact also the highest recruiter on campus this year offering as many as 11 offers spanning 4 diverse profiles to VBS students. •	Analytics major Mu-Sigma was also amongst the first time recruiters •	Banking & Finance Majors – ICICI Direct, Cholamandalam, HLF and Magma Fin Corp offered Business Development profiles •	Retail Majors Pantaloons, Jubilant Retail, Max Retail offered Operations, HR, Logistics and Merchandising profiles for their retail operations PRE-PLACEMENT OFFERS This year VBS saw a great number of Pre Placement Offers and Interviews being offered to students post their Internship. This is a testimony to VBS working in the same manner as Top B-schools in India. We have over 25% of the batch being offered PPIs and also managed about 8 PPOs Companies that offered PPIs basis internships included ITC, Airtel, Unity Consultants, Airtel, & Pantaloons. Companies that offered direct PPOs basis internship were Ogilvy & Mather, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company, Unity Consultants

RETURN ON INVESTMENT > 100% PROMISE DELIVERED YEAR ON YEAR Vanguard Business School’s focus has always been on delivering high quality industry focused education at the lowest possible cost, delivering best return for the hard earned money of the student. Just like last year, we have managed to maintain this promise. Average Salary	INR 4.31 Lacs/Year Median Salary	INR 4.20 Lacs/Year Fees	INR 4 Lacs for entire 2 year PGPM course batch (2012-2014) Return on Investment	4.31/4.0 *100=107%