IIM Amritsar, Nagpur, Visakhapatnam 3rd batch commencement announced: IIM Bodhgaya, Sambalpur, Jammu, Sirmaur yet to take call

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June 26, 2017
IIM Amritsar, IIM Nagpur and IIM Visakhapatnam have announced to commence their academic session 2017-18 in next few days while IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Jammu, IIM Sambalpur and IIM Sirmaur are yet to finalize the date to inaugurate the academic session for 3rd PGP 2017-19 batch
New IIMs session commencement
The incoming 3rd batch of PGP 2017-19 at IIM Amritsar is expected to have more than 105 students, the largest batch among all 7 newest IIMs

Inspite of the fact that IIM Amritsar, IIM Nagpur, IIM Visakhapatnam either participated in Common Admission process (CAP) 2017 coordinated by IIM Rohtak, or conducted their own PI round, all the 3 of the 7 newest IIMs have announced their session commencement schedule 2017-18 with their fee structure as against IIM Bodahgaya, Jammu, Sambalpur and Sirmaur who are yet to finalise the date for their session commencement.

The final result of admission process of these IIMs is out, however not all the selected candidates have opted and finalized their admission at these newest IIMs. Accordingly, it is very much possible that many of the newest IIMs might be waiting for the candidates to send in their acceptance and finalize their admission before announcing the date of session commencement.

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IIM Amritsar: Largest batch with lowest fee
IIM Amritsar is mentored by IIM Kozhikode. IIM Amritsar started its first batch with 47 students in PGP 2015-17 and increased the size of its 2nd batch of PGP 2016-18 by more than double with 105 students. The incoming 3rd batch of PGP 2017-19 at IIM Amritsar is expected to have more than 105 students, the largest batch among all 7 newest IIMs. Presently also IIM Amritsar has the largest batch size among all the newest IIMs.

PGP 2017-19 fee of IIM Amritsar is lowest among the newest IIMs. The tuition fees for IIM Amritsar is fixed at Rs. 9 Lakhs for two years as compared to other new IIMs who charge 10 lakhs and above. Details of breakup are given in the admission offer. Leading banks are offering educational loans at concessional terms as per Govt. of India guidelines for IIMs.

PGP 2017-19: Session inaugurates on July 10
IIM Amritsar has announced the key dates for PGP 2017-19 session commencement

Activity Date
Reach IIM Amritsar July 9, 2017 latest by 4 P.M.
Registration for new batch July 10, 2017 between 9.30AM – 1.00 PM
Batch inauguration July 10, 2017 at 4P.M.
Orientation programme July 11 to 13, 2017 from 9.30AM to 5PM
Commencement of classes July 14, 2017

Source: IIM Amritsar

IIM Nagpur: Session commences June 29 with 60 studentsSource: IIM Amritsar

IIM Nagpur is mentored by IIM Ahmedabad. The B-school has announced its session commencement date as June 29, 2017. Admission result of PGP 2017-19 has been announced and presently admissions are closed. In case, candidates out of the selected list fail to join, those from the wait list will be sent the admission offers. The batch size for PGP 2017-19 is 60 students and remains the same as that of last year.

The 2 years tuition fee for the batch 2017-19 at IIM Nagpur is Rs.11 lakhs to be paid in six terms. Yearly fee is Rs.5.50 lakhs.   

IIM Nagpur further advises the prospective students to have their own personal laptop with decent hardware configuration and office applications installed.

Funding your MBA at IIM Nagpur
For the students who take admission in IIM Nagpur, the B-school has ensured that financial inability should not be an impediment to pursue PGP programme.

All the banks will offer education loans to support IIM Nagpur education on relaxed terms. While many students raise the loan after joining the programme, the suggestion is to finalize the loan arrangements soon after you receive the admission offer letter from IIM Nagpur. You can contact the branch of any of the following banks nearest to you to enquire about the study loans as they offered student loans for previous batches:

Axis Bank; Canara Bank; Central bank of India; Dena Bank; IndusInd Bank; Punjab National Bank; State Bank of India; Syndicate Bank; Yes Bank.

You may have a chance to interact with representatives of some of these banks at registration time.

IIM Nagpur will also offer Special Need Based Scholarship (SNBS) to the students whose annual parental income is below a certain threshold limit. According to IIM Nagpur ‘We will also facilitate a number of scholarships which are awarded by Government of India and various state governments.’

IIM Visakhapatnam: Session commences July 17
IIM Visakhapatnam is mentored by IIM Bangalore. It proposes to commence the academic session 2017-18 for the 3rd PGP batch 2017-19 on July 17 with a batch of 60 plus students. The fee structure of IIM Visakhapatnam is Rs.10.5 lakhs for 2 years.

IIM Visakhapatnam has announced the key dates for the candidates who have to finalise their admission in the B-school and wish to pursue PGP 2017-19.

Activity Schedule
Registration at IIM Visakhapatnam July 17, 2017
Orientation programme July 17 to July 22, 2017
Commencement of classes July 24, 2017

Source: IIM Visakhapatnam

4 IIMs yet to announce the session commencement  Source: IIM Visakhapatnam

IIM Bodhgaya
IIM Bodhgaya, mentored by IIM Calcutta started its 1st batch in 2015 with 30 students. The second batch in 2016-18 has 54 students out of which 95% are from engineering background. The batch has an average age of 24 years and is a mix of freshers and experienced professionals. It appears by the time session commences at IIM Bodhgaya in the last week of July, the 3rd batch 2017-19 might have full intake of 60 students at its campus.

IIM Jammu & IIM Sirmaur
IIM Jammu and IIM Sirmaur, both mentored by IIM Lucknow are finalizing the admission to their respective PGP 2017-19 batch. Both the IIMs have not conducted any GD-PI and have offered admission to the candidates on the basis of their CAT 2016 scores, academics, work experience, gender diversity.

The batch size is to remain around 60 and the classes are proposed to commence in these IIMs in the last week of July 2017.

IIM Sambalpur
IIM Sambalpur mentored by IIM Indore is yet to announce its scheduled date of session commencement 2017-18. Although it is expected that the B-school would also have a batch of 60 students at least for PGP 2017-19, the details are not divulged by IIM Sambalpur. So far the details of admission status have also not been made available by this IIM on its website. It appears that IIM Sambalpur has not yet finalized its admission process and may begin the academic session little late.

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