IIM Ahmedabad is the rated among the top B-Schools in India

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad or the IIM Ahmedabad that is widely known as IIMA was established in the year 1961. It is the second Indian Institute of Management after Calcutta. IIM Ahmedabad was established as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian Industry. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, a noted scientist and industrialist, played an important role in the formation of IIM Ahmedabad.

IIMA is one of the best management institutions in India and IIMA is often rated among the top B-Schools in Asia. The IIM Ahmedabad campus is famous for its cross-cultural ambience and highest quality of management education that is at par with the best B-Schools of the world. In its initial days IIMA was closely associated with Harvard Business School and the educational pattern of IIMA is heavily influenced by Harvard. Like with any other IIMs, students need to pass the common admission test to get admission to this premiere business school. Along with high CAT score, students have to go through a group discussion and personal interview and that makes it one of the toughest management programmes to get in. Every year approximately 170, 000 applicants contest for the 250 places for the flagship post-graduate diploma course in management at IIMA.

The campus of IIMA that was designed by eminent architect of Philadelphia, Louis Kahn, is dominated by the baked brick style. The center arena of the campus that is a combination of brick and grass is named after the chief architect Louis Kahn. The original IIMA campus and the new campus have 25 dorms together. Each of them can hold 25-44 students in single-person rooms and has its distinctive culture and traditions.

One of the most prominent factors behind the worldwide fame of IIMA in the field of management education is the quality of the faculty. The 80 odd faculty members, most of whom are PhD., have studied at the distinguished Universities and Colleges all over the world. The faculty members of IIMA are very much in demand in the Indian corporate world and contribute immensely to the good of the management education, research and consultancy. The IIMA library that is named after Vikram Sarabhai, is one of the largest management libraries in the world and is spread across 5 floors.

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad offers management education and research facilities through its multiple programmes and they are as follows,

Post Graduate Programme in Management - This is flagship management programme of IIMA and considered among the best in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Post Graduate Programme in Agri-Business Management - This unique post-graduate level management programme is designed to educated the students for managing the food and agribusiness sector effectively.

One Year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives - This one-year program is designed for experienced executives who want to get formal management training.

Fellow Programme in Management - This doctoral level course of IIM Ahmedabad is designed to provide inter-disciplinary education and research opportunities for its students.

Faculty Development Programme - The FDP program at IIM Ahmedabad caters to the need of management education for the teachers, researchers, trainers in HRD, training colleges and industrial organizations.

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