IIM C and IIM A have hiked their fees for post graduate programme by Rs 1 lakh.
Six IIM-Ahmedabad students plan to start an anti-corruption helpline to weed out corruption from public life. This comes in the wake of series of scams being unearthed in India in the recent past.
Recently, The Week announced the results of their annual b-school survey for business schools in India. Interestingly, ISB Hyderabad leads the top 25 list of business schools in India, ahead of IIM-Ahmedabad.
The bill to amend the IIM Act of 2017 was introduced in the Lok Sabha last Friday amid disruptions by opposition members over the Manipur violence issue.
There are students with 10+ years of work experience who have done two-year full time MBA, says rediffGURU Patrick Dsouza.
Some of the highest number of offers at IIM-A were made by Royal Bank of Scotland, Ernst & Young and Microsoft.
The metro, it seems, is politics-proof -- even if it comes at a high cost.
The summer placement process is undergoing a digital transformation this year.
Though the number of IIMs has gone up in the past two years -- from seven to 13 -- the pool of companies which these B-schools approach for placements, remains largely the same.
IIM-A announced a tie-up with three corporate houses -- CRISIL, ATS Infra and SAP -- for research in financial markets, infrastructure and entrepreneurship.
Studying at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is going to be costlier with IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) and IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) hiking fees.
IIM Ahmedabad Director Samir K Barua says, a straight comparison of IITs and IIMs with global institutes, without accounting for the impact of the ownership on performance would be unfair.
The trigger for international gold prices rising to $3,000 per ounce was Germany's upcoming heavy government borrowing.
The IIMs reason that foreign tie-ups are important given the increasing demand for student and faculty exchange programmes and joint programmes in research and training.
IIMs have categorically asked the government not to interfere in their internal affairs so that they can smoothly carry out their work of making IIMs a global brand on par with the big B schools like Harvard and Wharton.
The premier Indian Institutes of Management will have to draw on all their management skills to solve the current financial imbroglio they are in. On the one hand, the fee hike by IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore has caused heartburn not only among students and the Union Human Resource Development Ministry but also among the other IIMs who say they were not consulted despite an existing agreement to do so. IIM-A and IIM-B have said that a fee hike is a prerogative of their own
Delhi's youngest Chief Minister Atishi took charge of the capital's government on Monday, September 23, 2024.
The institutes have now begun sensitising students about business ethics and morality as well. Be it inviting eminent personalities like the Dalai Lama to speak on business ethics or incorporating ethics as a compulsory course, IIMs are making efforts to produce socially-sensitive managers.
Final placements at IIM-Ahmedabad start this Saturday, while IIM-Indore and IIM-Lucknow will begin the process next week. IIM-Bangalore (IIM-B) and IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) will start their final placements from March 4.
Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad Chairman N R Narayana Murthy on Friday rejected the idea of better-off institutes supporting the weaker ones.
While IIM-B is yet to decide on the exact quantum, the increase could be anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 50,000. The institute will be revising its fee after three years. Through the revision, the institute plans to increase its earnings from the placement fee.
Be it with faculty or students, premium business management schools are engaging newer initiatives for stress management.
According to Ajit Balakrishnan, chairman of the board of governors of IIM-C, "Most students who study in IIM-C come from families whose annual income is Rs 5 lakh. We are a public higher education institute funded by taxpayers' money. Hiking our fees just because IIM-Ahmedabad or IIM-Bangalore has hiked theirs will make IIM-C an opportunist."
rediffGURU Patrick DSouza trains students for competitive management entrance exams such as the Common Admission Test, the Xavier Aptitude Test, Common Management Admission Test and the Common Entrance Test.
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has been ranked 24th while IIM-Ahmedabad ranked 55th in a worldwide survey of 'Universal Business Schools with major international influence'.
Society member and one of the donor members of IIM-A Prafull Anubhai told reporters on Wednesday that they were upset by the 'explicit threats and unwarranted remarks' made by the government representatives.
Some directors think pooling their resources - financial and faculty - for their international foray makes eminent sense.
A senior IIM-A professor is confident the institute can accommodate the additional quota of students.
The IIMs will begin final placements in March 2010.
"We cannot start reducing the best institutes, like the Indian Institute of Management, to the lowest common denominator," says Ravi Miglani.
IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which had agreed to set up a campus in the state, has not been able to start work due to the political uncertainty caused by the Telangana issue.
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