Batchmates.com Brings Two Million Alumni Under One Roof

April 25, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
India’s Largest Cyber Alumni Platform Batchmates.com boasts of as many as two million alumni actively connected to each other. The site is a rapidly growing networking community with approximately 2,000 new alumni joining every day. Batchmates.com is primarily an Indian alumni website connecting Resident Indians as well as NRIs. NRIs, which comprises of 2.75 % of registrations are mostly from USA, UK, UAE etc. A glimpse of its member database reveals the following facts as on 23/04/2007:

Top 5 Countries:

India: 1,904,460
United States: 16,007
United Arab Emirates: 6,910
Pakistan: 3,623
United Kingdom: 3,300

Top 5 Indian States

Maharashtra: 303,093
Tamilnadu: 173,923
Uttar Pradesh: 170,231
Karnataka: 148,451
Andhra Pradesh: 137,920

Top 5 Indian Cities

Mumbai: 133,458
New Delhi: 130,527
Kolkata: 67,188
Bangalore: 66,867
Chennai: 66,211

Top 5 Institutes

Delhi Public School (DPS) - R K Puram: 3,902
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) - Pilani: 3,785
Jadavpur University: 3,653
Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee ( IIT / University of Roorkee / Thomason College of Engg.): 3,525
South Point High School: 3,501

Note: The above figure indicates counties, states, cities or institutions having highest alumni registered with batchmates.com

Batchmates.com has a huge number of known and even unknown schools and colleges (approx. 204,306 in number and growing). The popularity of the site is such that thousands of alumni from several institutions even from remote parts of the India indulge in nostalgic memories of their golden years.

Abhijan Nandy, Director & COO of Batchmates.com has been quoted saying, “It is the collective effort of our team that has enabled us to reach the two million mark today. The team’s endeavor is now to add more than a million alumni in the next year.”