What: Indian Institutes of Management announce admission to Fellow Programme in Management.

Details, requirements and eligibility:

~Scholarly pursuit requires above all a passion for knowledge and the perseverance to develop ideas and paradigms. FPM aims to admit individuals with exceptional academic background, strong motivation and potential to become excellent researchers at international levels. The applicants are therefore evaluated on a variety of criteria including, past academic achievements, scores on standard test and a personal interview with faculty.

~ Eligibility varies in different IIMs. It includes:

� Postgraduation with Institute-specific cut-off
� BE or BTech with Institute-specific cut-off

~ Final year students appearing for any of the above examinations in any relevant discipline can also apply

� CA, ICWA, CS and other professional qualifications with institute-specific cut-off
� Minimum scores in secondary and higher secondary with Institute-specific cut-off.

Interested candidates are required to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) of IIMs or GMAT/GRE/GATE/UGC-JRF for some of the specific areas.

Fellowship

Institute-specific monthly fellowship ranging from Rs 7,000 to Rs 15,000 is provided to the students. In addition to this, they are offered an annual contingency grant for buying books/ hardware/ software, etc and financial support for attending national and international conferences. IIMs also offer opportunities to students to apply for a variety of awards and fellowships instituted by various corporate houses, no tuition fee is charged.

Information Systems, Marketing Organisational Behaviour, Personnel & Industrial Relations, Production & Quantitative Methods, and Public Systems.

IIM, Bangalore (www.iimb.ernet.in )

Corporate Strategy & Policy, Economics & Social Sciences, Finance & Control, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, Productions & Operations Management, Public Systems, Public Policy, and Quantitative Methods & Information Systems.

IIM, Kolkata (www.iimcal.ac.in )

The Programme is offered in two major streams:

Management - Behavioural Sciences, Finance & Control, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Strategic Management, Marketing, and Operations Management

Related disciplines - Economics, Operations Research & Systems Analysis, Regional Development, and Sociology

IIM, Indore (www.iimidr.ac.in )

Finance & Accounting, Information Systems, International Business, Marketing, Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques, Organisational Behaviours & HRM. and Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

IIM, Kozhikode (www.iimk.ac.in )

Information Technology & Systems, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources, Quantitative Methods & Operations Management, and Strategic Management

IIM, Lucknow (www.iiml.ac.in )

Decision Sciences (Operational Research/ Statistics), Economics, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources Management, Information Technology & Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, and Strategic Management

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