IMT Hyderabad to take 10 LEAP Initiatives to enhance your Employability & Career; CXOs & Industry Visits, Global Immersions planned for 2022-24 Batch – Admissions Open for PGDM 2022

IMT Hyderabad (IMTH), a leading B-school that is part of IMT Group of Institutions with campuses at Ghaziabad, Nagpur and Dubai as well, offers three AICTE approved PGDM programmes. A key USP of IMT Hyderabad is the Leadership Engagement & Academic Program (LEAP) that offers many important initiatives to improve the Leadership Skills, Employability and Careers of its students. Emerging stronger post the Pandemic, IMTH will be taking many new initiatives under the LEAP program for the benefit of Batch 2022-24. IMTH Admission 2022 is currently open for next few days. Check unique IMTH LEAP opportunities available for all the students.

Before we discuss more about LEAP initiatives at IMT Hyderabad, shared here is a quick overview of IMT Hyderabad key Highlights and USPs.

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IMT Hyderabad: Key Highlights and USPs
Established in 2011, IMT Hyderabad is housed in a 30 acre beautiful landscaped campus close to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. Its key USPs are:

1. Strong Placements: IMT Hyderabad has recorded consistently high placements year after year. In the Placement 2022, Average Salary has gone up by 30% at Rs.9.60 LPA and Highest salary has gone up at Rs.23.50 LPA. Leading companies like Accenture, Amazon, DE Shaw, KPMG, Novartis, Deloitte, Wipro, Oracle, TAS, Xiaomi recruited at IMT Hyderabad in 2022. Read more

2. Prestigious Accreditations & High Rankings: IMT Hyderabad has earned international SAQS Accreditation from AMIDSA and is accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in India. All programs at IMT Hyderabad have AIU Equivalence. The institute is a member of AACSB and EFMD, top two International Accreditation bodies. IMT Hyderabad is ranked #63 in GoI, MHRD NIRF Ranking 2021 and Ranked #48 in MBAUniverse.com B-School Rankings 2022.  

3. Industry Relevant Curriculum & Pedagogy: All courses at IMT Hyderabad undergo constant update to reflect contemporary topics in the management world. Cases, business simulations and games are a part and parcel of the participant-centred pedagogy and they are used at every opportunity to create a unique learning experience for the students. 

4. Highly Qualified & Experienced Faculty: IMT Hyderabad has highly qualified full-time faculty members offering optimum Faculty-Student Ratio to enhance learning experience and one to one interaction.

5. Business Leadership Program - LEAP: IMT Hyderabad offers value added Business Leadership programme-Leadership Engagement & Academic Programme (LEAP) to the students to nurture communication skills, cognitive & interpersonal skills, digital skills, to develop business acumen. This article has complete details.  

6. Global Immersion & International Student Exchange: IMT Hyderabad has partnered with leading foreign Institutes and Universities offering student & faculty exchange programs. The top partner institutes include Rennes School of Business, France; KEDGE Business School, France; University of San Diego, USA; FH Offenburg, Germany; Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada amongst others.

7. Unique Multiple Summer Term Opportunities: IMT Hyderabad offers three options to complete the summer term of about 4 months duration after first year and before commencement of second year course i) Students can opt for Internships (IP); ii) can opt for Student Exchange Programme (SEP), iii) Or can pursue Management Thesis & Seminars (MTS). MTS is designed for those students who wish to build a career in research field.

IMT Hyderabad’s Leadership Engagement & Academic Programme (LEAP)
Having looked at the key USPs of IMT Hyderabad, let’s now focus on IMT Hyderabad’s Leap Initiative. Recruiters have often pointed out to the gap in the competencies of Indian MBAs. Industry looks for well-rounded MBAs who are not just familiar with the business theory, but also possess strong interpersonal skills and familiarity with digital trends. IMT Hyderabad’s Leap Initiative is created to bridge this gap.

Sharing the purpose of initiating the LEAP Program, Prof. Vinay Kalakbandi, PGP Chairperson, IMT Hyderabad said, “The purpose of LEAP is to nurture communication skills, cognitive & interpersonal skills, contemporary digital skills and develop business acumen & social consciousness among students of IMTH.”

To meet the objective, IMT Hyderabad students participate in following LEAP initiatives: 

• One to One Mentoring by Industry Leaders
• Hands on workshops on emerging areas in technology & business as a whole 
• Distinguished speaker series 
• Industry immersion
• Social immersion 
• Global immersion 
• Industry guided courses 
• Contemporary domain inputs
• Professional Certifications  

Before going deeper into details of IMT Hyderabad LEAP Program, let’s try to understand the benefits of LEAP to the students. Outlining the benefits of this program, Dr. Venkata Chakrapani C, Dean Academics at IMTH said, “LEAP is a value-added Business Leadership Program offered by IMTH to all the students in line with its’ vision of nurturing socially responsible business leaders. LEAP is embedded in the existing program architecture specifically helps IMTH students to achieve strong Placements.” Referencing the recent Placements 2022 results, Dr. Chakrapani added, “The placements statistics speak for themselves. A 30 % hike in average pay is unprecedented. We believe all these initiatives have aided our students in putting their best foot forward to all the recruiters.”

It may be noted that LEAP program is compulsory for all the students, and they undergo all the facets of the above initiatives over a period of two years. So, LEAP looks like a good initiative from IMT Hyderabad to improve students’ employability skills. Let’s now understand each of the components of the program.

1. One to One Mentoring by Industry Leaders
As part of the LEAP program, Industry Mentor Mentee Program (IM2P) is initiated by IMT Hyderabad to enhance industry readiness and nurture business leadership among students. Industry mentors will help students to hone their interpersonal skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in real situations. Through this program, final year students will be able to appreciate roles, responsibilities, and challenges of a particular career path in specific industry. Over the last two years around 80 students have benefitted from this program and this initiative will continue to be offered for the batch 2022-24 as well.

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2. Global Immersion
Students will be given opportunity to pursue global immersion programs with IMT Dubai and 44+ partner institutes across continents for a duration of one week to a trimester. IMT Hyderabad has 40+ B-school partners across the globe to conduct exchange programs. These partners are leading B-schools in USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, Singapore amongst others. IMT Hyderabad International Exchange Partners include:

• University du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
• University of San Diego, United States
• IPADE Business School, Mexico D.F., Mexico
• Faculty of Business Administration, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Charles Darwin University, Australia
• Macquarie University, Australia
• ESC Rennes School of Business, France
• ICHEC Brussels Management School, Brussels, Belgium
• FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
• Nottingham Business School, United Kingdom
• BI Norwegian Business School, Norway 

IMT Hyderabad could not pursue the exchange program during last two years due to pandemic, the institute plans to resume it this year.

3. Hands on Workshops on Emerging Technology & Business areas
IMTH offers hands on workshops during first year of the program in the emerging areas such as programming using python, blockchain technologies, advanced spreadsheet modelling, personal branding, leadership lab, creativity innovation workshop and design thinking. This ensures that students are well versed with Industry 4.0 Trends, which are changing the nature of business and management across the world. All the aforementioned workshops were held in the last two years despite pandemic and shall be continued for the batch 2022-24 as well.

4. Distinguished Speaker Series
CXOs from leading corporates are invited to share their business building experience with students and update them about the happenings in the corporate world. Students learn about the challenges that these leaders had to face while achieving their goal, which gives them the motivation to think out of the box solutions. Some of the distinguished corporate speakers who have participated in this initiative during last two years are

5. Industry Immersion
During the intervening summer term between the first and second years, students undergo a 12 week faculty-supervised internship in an organization to apply the knowledge they have acquired during the first year of their program and bridge the perceived gap between theory and practice. The IP enables students to experience the rigors of the professional environment, both in terms of form and substance. It provides them with opportunities to learn and practice business knowledge and professional behavior. This internship program is an integral part of the curriculum and all students have to go through this. Past two years have been a challenge due to the pandemic. Several internships got cancelled and IMTH had to facilitate lot of online internships. However, for the 2022-24 batch, IMT Hyderabad plans to continue the internships. According to Dr. Venkata Chakrapani C, “Internship program has adapted to the new normal. We have modified our processes to accommodate for online/offline internships. This shall continue to be the case in the future as well.”

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6. Social Immersion
The community outreach initiatives at IMT Hyderabad started off in 2011 by PAHEL a volunteer student cell. The Community Connect Cell was established in 2018, with the objective of sensitizing the students towards the society so as to bring about positive change in the communities and address real life societal challenges. The Cell has envisaged its activities under the following four headings of Abhiyaan, Nirmaan, Sahayam and Sambbad towards fulfilment of its Daaitva (Responsibility). IMT Hyderabad plans to further strengthen these initiatives with students being available offline this year

7. Industry Guided Courses
At IMT Hyderabad, at least 20% of every course is delivered by senior executives from corporate world and the rest is delivered by the faculty member in-charge. This is to ensure that the courses being offered are relevant and updated to meet the current as well as future needs of the business world and also sensitize students to the real world challenges and the best practices within that function. According to Prof. Vinay Kalakbandi, PGP Chairperson, “Almost all courses we teach have a practitioner element. Thanks to the pandemic, we are also allowed practitioner to connect online as well, which has opened up new opportunities. We have been having practitioners from abroad as well.” For the batch 2022-24, IMT Hyderabad focus on incorporating practitioner content into all of its courses shall remain.

8. Contemporary Domain Inputs
One of the key business trends is increasing usage of Technology and Analytics. At IMT Hyderabad, Students will pursue contemporary courses such as Digital Marketing, Block Chain for Managers, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Forecasting Analytics, FinTech, Risk Analytics, HR Analytics, Sports Analytics, International Logistics & Supply Chain Management. This will continue for the upcoming batches as well.

9. Professional Certifications in Select Fields
Increasingly businesses are demanding proficiency in skills – the ability to execute a task well. These skills can be acquired through industry specific certifications. Aligning with this requirement, at IMT Hyderabad, students are encouraged to pursue industry endorsed certification programs such as KPMG Six Sigma Certification, NCFM, Google Analytics.

Having looked at the LEAP program at IMT Hyderabad, let us understand more about IMT Placements and Admission process.

IMT Hyderabad Placements
As noted above, IMT Hyderabad has recorded consistently high placements over the years. Here are key details:

• Average Salary in Placement 2022 goes up by 30% at Rs.9.60 LPA from Rs.7.34 LPA last year
• Highest Salary in Placement 2022 goes up at Rs.23.50 LPA from Rs.20 LPA last year
• Median Salary goes up at Rs.8.50 LPA from 6.75 LPA last year
• Prominent Recruiters for Batch 2020 – 22 include Arcesium India, Advance Autoparts India, Amazon, Bain & Company, Cognizant, D.E.Shaw, Deloitte, Genpact, KPMG, HCL, Oracle, Wipro, Xiaomi among others

IMT Hyderabad Admission 2022: Application is Open
Due to the delay in exam results and based on requests from a large number of MBA aspirants, IMT Hyderabad has extended its application process and decided to accept application from candidates with below mentioned percentile/score:

• 75 percentile and above in CAT or XAT
• 90 percentile and above in CMAT
• 550 and above composite score in GMAT

So start your applications by logging into the student portal of IMT Hyderabad via this link IMT Hyderabad Admission Open: Apply Now

IMT Hyderabad Admission 2022: Key details

IMT Hyderabad offers many Scholarships as well and conducts Management Orientation Program (MOP), called ABHYUDAY, a two week long introductory module that prepares students for the management coursework before session commencement. ABHYDAY includes orientation sessions, group activities, panel discussion on corporate expectations and an outbound activity.

So, if you are looking for a B-school for Admissions 2022 that offers good placements, holistic learning and international immersion opportunities, IMT Hyderabad is a good option. IMT Hyderabad PGDM Admission 2022 is open.  Apply Now

Also read:

• IMT Hyderabad Admission 2022
• IMT Hyderabad Global Immersion Initiatives

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