The Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur has inaugurated the 2024-26 batch of its flagship Two-Year MBA program, the biggest batch with 384 students. Last year the 2023-25 batch size was of 360 students and before that the 2022-24 batch had 347 students. Prof. Ashok Banerjee, Director IIM Udaipur, presided over the event. Mr. Sonny Iqbal of Egon Zehnder was the Chief Guest. Sonny Iqbal helped found Egon Zehnder’s offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai. He advises family businesses on succession, founder transition, governance, and family charter development across markets. Sonny co-founded and, until recently, co-led the Firm’s global Family Business Advisory Practice. Drawing from his extensive experience in the corporate world and the global Family Business Advisory Practice, Mr. Iqbal shared valuable life lessons with the students.
IIM Udaipur MBA 2024-26 Batch Profile: Key Highlights
- Largest Batch so far
- MBA 2024-26 Batch Size increased 384 students from 360 in MBA 2023-25 batch and from 347 students in MBA 2022-24 batch
- Ratio of Women Students remains same in MBA 2024-26 batch as last year at 32%
- Non-Engineers are 42% of the batch size. Reduced this year from 45% in the MBA 2023-25 batch
- Students with Work Experience: 60%
IIMU MBA 2024-26 Batch: Gender Diversity Rising
IIM Udaipur is at the forefront of achieving gender diversity. For 2024 the incoming MBA batch comprises of overall 32% female students and 68% male students. This ratio remains same as was for 2023-25 batch
Ratio of Non-Engineers Goes Down Slightly at IIMU MBA 2024-26 Batch
Academic Diversity is another aspect of IIMU’s MBA programme. This year IIM Udaipur witnessed 42% of the students from non-engineering background while 58% are engineers. Students from various disciplines such as Arts/Science/Commerce have joined IIM Udaipur MBA 2024-26 batch. The ratio of Non Engineers in 2023-25 batch was 45%.
Work Experience of the batch
60% students of the IIMU MBA 2024-26 batch have work experience and only 40% students are Freshers.
Best Performing Students Awarded
At the inauguration ceremony, IIM Udaipur distributed scholastic awards to the best performing students in their respective terms for the first-year students of the MBA Program of 2023-25 who are now in their Final Year. The awards were given to the following best performing students in each of the five sections
Term I Award Winners
- Deepti Singh
- Joshua Almeida
- Rushil Singhal
- Tathagat Uday
- Vittal Vikrant
Term II Award Winners
- Agarwal Naman Khemchand
- Alekhya Tummala
- Joshua Jude Almeida
- Rushil Singhal
- Tathagat Uday
Term III Award Winners
- Abhishek Kumar
- Deepti Singh
- Lekshmi Priya B
- Soumyadeep Das
- Tathagat Uday
IIMU Gives Director’s Awards on the Occasion
On the occasion, Director’s Awards were also given. The students who were conferred with the awards include Deepti Singh, Mansi Jain, Vishwajeet T Khot, Alekhya Tummala, Abhishek Kumar, Joshua Jude Almeida, Tathagat Uday, Agarwal Naman Khemchand, Gorli Sindhu, Rushil Singhal, Chaganti Sri Satya Sahithi, Gurupreet Singh Sachdev, Soumyadeep Das, Mayank Sharma, John Medwin V, Ayush Saini, and Shubham Mani Kaushik.
The ceremony proceedings were managed by Mr. Uday Bhaskar, Program Officer, and a vote of thanks was given by Prof. Shobhit Aggarwal.
Addressing the new batch, the Chief Guest Mr Iqbal stressed upon the importance of combining hard work and dedication with strategic growth in both horizontal and vertical dimensions and urged the students to focus on forging good relationships and managing those relationships wisely at all stages of their careers.
Welcoming the new batch to a transformational journey at the premier management institute, Prof. Ashok Banerjee, Director of IIM Udaipur spoke about the newly revised curriculum tailored for this batch, aiming to provide a unique and transformative educational experience. Prof. Banerjee also talked about RAPID Transformation in the active course of two years of MBA at IIM Udaipur, where RAPID stands for Resilience, Adaptability, Problem-Solving Skills, Inquisitiveness and Discipline.
Prof. Rajesh Nanarpuzha, Dean, Programs, emphasised the importance of the student's role at IIMU, and said, "Students should think about their first day in IIMU as the start of a new journey which will continue over the next decades in their life. They should use the time at IIMU for creating building blocks for the same. IIMU has an existing culture. Students should always look to shape it for the better. They should leave IIMU better than where they found it."
In his inspiring welcome address, Prof. Debanjan Mitra, Chairperson of the two-year MBA program, encouraged the new batch to embrace the opportunities and challenges ahead, emphasising the importance of critical and intellectual thinking.
Ranked #16 in Govt. of India MHRD NIRF Ranking 2023 for top 125 Management Institutes in India and ranked #17 in MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2024, IIM Udaipur has earned prestigious international accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in merely eight years of its establishment. IIMU has been listed on the Financial Times (FT) Global MIM Ranking 2022 as well as the QS Global MIM Ranking 2020, only the 4th IIM, along with IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, and Bangalore, to be in the FT Global MIM Ranking and only the 7th IIM in the QS 2021 Global MIM Rankings. In both Rankings, IIM Udaipur is the youngest B-School in the world! IIMU is also currently ranked 4th in India, after ISB, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore, for research in management according to the methodology used by UT Dallas, which tracks publications in the leading global journals.
IIM Udaipur was created by Government of India in 2009 and started operation in 2011. The institute has now grown to become one of the best Management Institutes in India and is competing globally. Along with 2 Years full time MBA Program, IIM Udaipur offers, 1 Year full time MBA-Global Supply Chain Management (MBA-GSCM); 1 Year full time MBA-Digital Enterprise Management (MBA-DEM), 20 Months Part Time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) among other executive management programmes.
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