Indian Institute of Management Indore


The Indian Institute of Management Indore is an autonomous public business school located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in India. Instituted in 1996, IIM Indore is the sixth addition to the Indian Institute of Management family of management schools and was named as an institute of national importance in 2017 along with the other IIMs.

History

IIM Indore, which came into existence in 1996, was established as the sixth Indian Institute of Management after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode
IIM Indore has been awarded the EFMD Quality Improvement System accreditation by EFMD, the globally recognized international organization for management development. The EQUIS Accreditation Board voted to confer EQUIS Accreditation on IIM Indore on December 10, 2019. IIM Indore is now the second IIM in the nation to receive triple accreditations, bringing glory to the Institute with a ‘Triple Crown’, i.e. receiving all the three prominent accreditations — Association of MBAs ; The Association to Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business ; and EQUIS, European Union. This combination of accreditations is held by less than one percent of business schools in the world, granted by the largest and most influential business school accreditation agencies. As of March 2019, the ‘Triple Crown’ was received by only 90 business schools globally, out of the 13,000+ schools offering business degree programmes.
In 2011, IIM Indore launched the Five Year Integrated Programme in Management. It is first of its kind programme in India aimed at attracting students who have passed higher secondary school and showed an interest in Management Education.
IIM Indore started offering its two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management at Ras al-Khaimah in 2011. It is the first IIM to have started operations outside India. In 2013, IIM Indore shifted its Ras al-Khaimah operations to Dubai. However, in 2014, it shut down its operations in its UAE campus.
The institute also offered its two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management in Mumbai, from 2012 till 2019 Till date, no IIM has had a presence in the financial capital of India.
Currently, the Institute also offers Post Graduate Programme in Management for Working Executives in Mumbai.

Academics

IIM Indore offers the following academic programmes:
Options to specialise in various fields such as Finance, Operations, Marketing, Systems etc. are available.
The institute also offers various certificate programmes and Management Development Programmes.
IIM Indore has been recently accredited from the Association of MBAs, for four full-time programmes - Two Year Post Graduate Programme in Management, One Year Full Time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management and Five Year Integrated Programme in Management.

Admission

Admissions to the Post Graduate Programmes in Management and Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management at Indore is through the Common Admission Test conducted by the IIMs. Non Resident Indian candidates are also eligible to apply and should have scored a minimum GMAT score of 650 to be shortlisted for further evaluations. Admissions to the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management, a programme for executives with a minimum of 5 years work experience, is through the globally accepted GMAT. The candidates are shortlisted on the basis of their GMAT score, which on average has been 700 for the past batches, quality of work experience, extra-curricular record and future managerial potential.
Admission to the 5 year Integrated Programme in Management is through the IPM Admission Test conducted nationally as a preliminary examination followed by personal interview and WAT. A combination of both scores is used to select candidates. Over 20,000 students give the IPM AT annually from which only 120 are selected.

Foreign Student Exchange Program

There are over 90 student exchange seats, which means that 20% of the PGP batch can spend an academic term in a foreign university. It is the 3rd highest number of seats across all IIMs. There are over 40 schools with whom IIM Indore has an exchange programme MOU in 16 countries. On an average 50 students from foreign universities spend a term at IIM Indore. In 2019, IPM started its first exchange on undergraduate level. In the first leg, more than 30 students spent their term abroad in different universities of France, Germany, Finland, Latvia and Taiwan.
The institute had its first student exchange of six students with Ecole de Management de Lyon, a business school based in Lyon, France, in 2005.
The collaborates with SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy as part of exchange programme where the entire batch spends 1 full term for a five-week module to get a global perspective on management. The exchange programme introduces students to diverse subjects like Digital Transformation, Doing Business with Europe, Fashion and Luxury Management and Family Business Management. The international immersion for is known as Advanced Leadership Programme.
The EPGP programme also has compulsory modules on Advanced Data Analytics which is taught in collaboration with Jigsaw Academy and Strategy Simulations offered by Harvard Business School.

Rankings

IIMI was ranked seventh among management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020.

Faculty

IIM Indore has 106 full-time faculty and 65+ visiting faculty.

Location and Campus

The institute operated out of a temporary campus in Rajendra Nagar in Indore till 2003, before moving to its current campus. On 3 October 1998, the foundation stone of the Indore campus was laid by Mukesh Ambani. The current campus is located at Prabandh Shikhar, on Rau-Pithampur Road, close to the Pithampur Special Economic Zone, off Agra-Bombay Highway. Situated atop a scenic hillock, the 193 acre campus of IIM Indore provides an ideal backdrop for contemplative learning. IIM Indore has the latest in teaching aids, rich learning resources, a strong IT backbone, state-of-the-art sports complex and hostels as well as contemporary infrastructure.

Student Residences

The present campus started with 4 hostels each housing 60 students. As the intake has gradually increased, today, there are 18 hostels. Rooms in all the hostels have direct computer connectivity to the main LAN that provides an 1Gbit/s internet connectivity via National Knowledge Network. For the One Year Full Time MBA students, a separate hostel has been set up that can house almost 200 students. In addition to these, IIM Indore also has a Management Development Centre which houses the MDP participants. A hostel dedicated to participants of Fellow Programme in Management has been constructed recently. Refurbishment and renovation work also encompasses the main gate and several other buildings in the IIM campus such as staff quarters for the visiting faculty.

Learning Centre

The IIMI Learning Centre, with its wide range of collection of knowledge resources and innovative information services, fills an essential requisite in the intellectual pursuits for our students, faculty and the surrounding community. IIMI LC, a hybrid Centre with the state-of-the-art technological applications holds knowledge resources predominantly related to management and allied subjects. The entire LC collection of books, print journals/magazines along with its wide range of e-collection including e-journals, e-books, online databases, CD-ROM collection etc., are accessible through the Institute’s network and wi-fi.
The LC building has a sprawling space of about 27000 sq. ft., with central air-conditioning and designated areas for different sections of the IIMI LC, providing the right ambiance for reading and reflection.
For the first time, in order to imbibe more respect towards Indian culture, the library of the institute would be having separate literature sections of Hindi, Sanskrit, local languages of India. This is one of the transforming ideas of the Director Prof. Himanshu Rai.

Sports Complex

The new sports complex which has a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a squash court and an auditorium was inaugurated on October 2011 by Shri L.N. Jhunjhunwala, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIM Indore and has become operational since then.
Apart from this, the hostels have badminton, volleyball and Basketball courts.

Student Activities

Student Body

The activities of the students are coordinated by the Students Activities Council, an elected body of student representatives. The SAC follows a Constitution document in its activities and initiatives. The SAC comprises 9 committees, 9 Activity clubs, 8 Interest clubs, an Editorial team of a quarterly publication and coordinators of various national level events.
The student committees are as follows:
The secretary of each committee along with the SAC Coordinator and the SAC Financial Advisor form the 10-member SAC Executive Council which advises the institute administration.

Activity Clubs

There are various Activity Clubs at IIM Indore, the notable among them being:
IIM Indore also hosts several clubs catering to varied interest groups:
The students of IIM Indore publish a quarterly business magazine, Management Canvas. Further, the Industry Interface Office at IIM Indore publishes a bi-annual magazine named IIM Insights.

Events

Various contests, events and tournaments are held throughout the year, giving students a chance to compete among themselves.

IRIS

IRIS is the annual management festival of IIM Indore, first held in 2000. Participation, both from students and corporate India, has been on the rise each year. With a gamut of events ranging from the leadership event 'Ashwamedha' to a host of other events targeted at every functional sphere of management, IRIS is successful in pulling in the best management students across India. Among the most popular events are Chanakya, Kalpavriksha, Fin League and Gordian Knot. The event ends with a live concert, Livewire, in which popular singers and bands like Euphoria, Mohit Chauhan, Indian Ocean and Parikrama have performed.

Atharv

Atharv is the only cultural undergraduate fest organised at an IIM. A cultural and management fest, conducted by the students of the Integrated Program in Management, it spans three days and is conducted during the 1st weekend of September, every year. It is the biggest college fest of Central India.
Atharv's Flagship Management events include Avant Garde, Pragnya, Vendition Vendatta, Finopoly and Game of Shadows. The cultural events range from the usual – Delirium, Tremolo, Bailar & Promenade – to the unusual – Vandals, Vanity, and Vaudeville. A 3-day MUN is also conducted simultaneously, along with a British Parliamentary Debate and other literary events. A number of informal events are conducted as well.

Mridang

Mridang is the annual three-day cultural festival of IIM Indore. The 2012 edition took place on 10–12 February. and was focused on the importance of education, including lectures and workshops for children of the city. The cultural program included a santoor performance by Tarun Bhattacharya and an Odissi dance performance by Sanchita Bhattyacharya, followed by Lasya group dancing. The 2014 edition took place on 21–23 February. The Band Odyssey performed on 23 February.
Mridang is no longer organized at IIM Indore.

Utsaha

Utsaha is the annual rural marketing fair of IIM Indore, established in 2009. The 2011 edition was held at Janapao Kuti village in Mhow tehsil and was focused on "contemporary issues being faced by companies targeting rural markets."

Indore Marathon

In line with IIM Indore's focus on creating a positive impact on the social and cultural environment in which it functions, Indore Marathon, an initiative taken by the community of IIM Indore, made a successful debut in 2008 with more than 5000 citizens running for peace on 2 October i.e. Gandhi Jayanti. The Indore Marathon is the true test of endurance and character and sends out a statement of unity and support for a cause.
Themes for Indore Marathon:
Indian B-School League is the Socio-Management festival of IIM Indore. It was started in 2010 as part of the annual National Youth Conference, on Swami Vivekananda's birth anniversary.
Indian B School League is no longer organized at IIM Indore.

Rendez-vous

Rendezvous is an Annual Alumni- Fresher's meet, held across various cities in India in an effort to enable the new batch to interact with the Alumnus, and the PGP-2 participants, who began their journey of success through IIM Indore.

Ranbhoomi

Spread over a period of three days, Ranbhoomi, IIM Indore's flagship sporting fest, is nothing short of a sporting spectacle. Drawing elite participation from all over the country, it is a battle of the fittest, toughest and mightiest and only one emerges as the true winner. With humble beginnings, Ranbhoomi has grown into a mammoth fest with participation from 50+ colleges in 20+ events, with a footfall of more than 10000 and monumental pro nights, the likes of VH1 Supersonic, Trap Domination and Progressive Brothers to name a few.

Prabodhan

Organized by and Industry Interface Office, Prabodhan is the Annual HR and Leadership Conclave of IIM Indore. The conclave provides an excellent platform for students to learn from the best Business Leaders through guest lectures, industry specific presentations and case-study based challenges. The event also hosts a networking lunch, through which students get an opportunity to network with HR Leaders from various industries and build meaningful connections.

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