IIM-A PGPX students get ready for International Immersion

Over 60 students from IIM-A PGPX programme will go for international immersion to some of the leading international B-schools including Columbia Business School. Whats more is that the participants will also pursue a live project internship with blue-chip companies like Morgan Stanley, Microsoft and Unilever.

The institutes where IIM-A PGPX students will be headed include University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (20 students), Columbia Business School, USA (11 students), Amsterdam Business School, Holland (13 students), Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany (3 students), and Chinese University of Hongkong, Hong Kong (25 students). Columbia and Frankfurt are new additions to the list of overseas partners for the International Immersion of PGPX students.

IIM-A also has agreements with University of Texas at Austin and are in talks with Warwick Business School, UK and Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa for collaboration in this area.
After one week of coursework at respective international institutions on a topic, that is specific to the geography that the students are in, they will intern with firms on different types of projects. Sponsor firms include: Unilever, EDS, Microsoft, IBM, Wipro, Arshiya International, Yes Bank, Patni Computers, Cisco, Clextral, Posco, Cummins, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Intel Capital, Future Group, Centurion Bank of Punjab, Geometric Software, Morgan Stanley, Accenture, Chainalytics, Acumen Fund, Prescient Technologies and IDFC.

Talking about its PGPX International immersion programme, IIM-A says, International immersion is unique to PGPX with both an academic and a project component such a module does not exist in any other MBA program.