IIM Ahmedabad: How it is Indias Premier and Dream B School for MBA Aspirants!
IIMA has evolved from being Indias premier management institute to a notable international school of management in just four decades.
Ahmedabad makes a befitting home for an institute of the stature of IIM given the fact that the city has a proud history of industry and commerce. IIM Ahmedabad was the secondIIMto be set up in the country. Over the last four decades, IIMA has excelled in the field of management education. IIMA has evolved from being Indias premier management institute to a notable international school of management in just four decades.
The premier B school was founded to produce high quality managers in the Indian contextin response to the growing need that was felt for nurturing professional managers who could efficiently manage Indias growing industries. The Institute has, indeed, fulfilled this objective in an able manner during the last 40 years.
In this article we would like to give an insight of IIMA about its full time Programme, about its valuable faculty resource, latest placements of 2014 exclusive, Ranking by MBAUniverse.com and major Ranking agencies, Information on its alumni base, so that the MBA Aspirants know about the college and give their best shot in CAT 14 to get selected for this dream B School.
USPs of IIMA-
- 100 acre Campus - Heritage Campus joined to the New Campus by an underground gallery.
- 800 full time students and 1500 executives enrolled in courses every year
- 84 full time Faculty (all with PhDs)
- 60 partner Business Schools in 23 countries and 2 double degree programmes
- More than 300 courses, 150 articles and numerous books published by faculty in the last five years
- 5 long duration programmes
- 150 regular recruiters
- 20,000 Alumni, 14 national alumni Chapters and 6 international Alumni chapters across the globe
Management Programmes Offered:
Interestingly, IIM Ahmedabad does not offer MBA degree but Post Graduate Diploma in Management. The programme is much more appreciated than any University MBA. The institute offers Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Management; in Agri-Business Management; Doctoral(Fellowship) Programme and a number of Executive Training Programmes.
Post graduate Programme in Management
The two-year full-time Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), the flagship programme of IIMA has been rated as the toughest MBA programme in the world to get admission in. The main objective is to develop young men and women into competent professional managers
Post graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management(PGP-ABM)
The objective of the Post-graduate Programme in Agri-business Management is to transform young men and women into competent professional managers for the agriculture, food, agri-business, rural and allied sectors. The programme caters to the needs of enterprises serving these sectors, both domestic and international.
Leadership at IIMA
The team at IIM Ahmedabad is led by the Director Prof. Ashish Nanda, a Gold medalist of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. He succeeds Dr Samir Barua. Before being appointed the Director of IIMA in September 2013, Prof Nanda served Harvard Law School for seven years. As Robert Braucher Professor of Practice, he taught Professional Services, Leadership in Law Firms, and Professional Services: Advanced Topics in the JD program. He was faculty director of Executive Education, faculty director of the Case Development Initiative, and research director at Program on the Legal Profession. http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/7126/
To further strengthen the leadership at IIMA, appointment of three new deans has been announced by Prof. Nanda namely Dr G Raghuram-Dean for Faculty, Dr Ajay Pandey- Dean for Programmes and Dr Arvind Sahay- Dean for Alumni & External Relations.
On the recommendation of Prof Nanda, Mr. A.M. Naik, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIM A has appointed Prof. Vasant P. Gandhi and Prof. Rekha Jain as Faculty Representatives on the Board of Directors on September 28, 2013.
Faculty
The faculty is the principal driver of change through which B School nurtures and is involved in every aspect of the Institutes. The faculty resource at IIMA sets highest standards of teaching and mentoring with diverse backgrounds as eminent entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers, theoreticians and consultants. The rich diversity of their backgrounds instills in the students a continuous desire to achieve excellence.
IIM A has 84 full time faculty and 13 visiting faculty (all with PhDs). In addition, two Associate Professors and four Assistant Professors were also appointed in the Institute.IIM-A started this process of improving facultystudent ratio in January 2013 and continued till September, 2013. These appointments have been made to sustain the competitive advantage of the Institute in the Country
Fee and Placements 2014: ROI is high
IIMA has a high fee structure and therefore expenses at IIM Ahmedabad come to around Rs.20 lakhs to complete the 2 years PGP. Simultaneously financial institutions come forward and fund the entire fee and expenses for the students who get admission at this B school. The compensation that a student gets after completion of management programme in the placement season can go as high as Rs.40 lacs per annum, depending upon the candidates ability. The high Return on Investment is the key factor driving the aspirants to seek admission in IIM Ahmedabad.
The placement process of the graduating batch of the post graduate Programme in Management (PGP) at Ahemdabad was successfully completed with students being placed in various sectors in Feb 2014.The successful completion of the placement process shows the robust nature of the placement process at IIMA.
Career Impact:
Consistently recognized as one of the leading Institute of the Nation, the PGP Programme at IIMA is the most prestigious long-duration program. Over the years, this program has produced a large number of industry captains, wealth creators, renowned entrepreneurs, top-rated management academicians and leaders. You need to work hard to join the league.
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