Vinod Gupta School of Management


Vinod Gupta school of Management, IIT Kharagpur is a public business school located in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. An academic unit of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, it is the first business school to be established in an Indian Institute of Technology.
The institute primarily offers a two-year full-time residential Master of Business Administration programme, a 3 years post graduate MBA degree course for working executives and an advanced programme in management leading to the award of a Ph.D. degree.

History

Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, was set up as the first school of management within the IIT system in 1993 at a time when India had just opened its doors to economic liberalization.
The school was established with an aim to develop managers with a strong technological background who could lead tomorrow's corporate behemoths to the pinnacle of success. The concept was to start a business school along the lines of Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, i.e., a business school within a renowned technical institute. The School of Management was founded by a distinguished alumnus & a life-time Fellow of the Institute, Mr. Vinod Gupta, the former CEO and Chairman of InfoGROUP whose generous endowment of 2 Million US Dollars was matched by liberal support from the Government of India.

Academics

Vinod Gupta School of Management offers the following major academic programs:
In addition to the above, VGSoM offers other programmes like:
The School actively focuses on several multidisciplinary areas of research and development in the Institute as well as collaborative projects with the Industry. The 25 faculty members of VGSoM publish on an average 75 papers and case studies annually in peer-reviewed international journals on relevant areas of management studies which are widely cited. The School is backed by the interdisciplinary engineering, science and mathematics platforms of IIT Kharagpur which present a unique opportunity to its students to pursue electives in various subjects other than Management.
Being part of IIT system, in addition to core management subjects, students of VGSoM undertake courses in other departments, centres and schools at IIT Kharagpur on emerging topics like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Cyber Security and Intellectual Property Rights. This gives them a distinct advantage in today's technology-driven management landscape.

Rankings

Vinod Gupta School of Management ranked 5th amongst management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020, 22 by Business Todays "India's best B-schools 2019".
The school has also been ranked 4th among India’s top business schools in QS World University Rankings in subject ranking category for Business and Management Studies, and 3rd in Management Research.

Facilities and infrastructure

Library

Students have access to the school's library and the Institute's Central Library, which is one of the largest libraries in Asia. These two, between them, offer a collection of about 365,000 books, 1,500 journals, 1,700 CDs and videos, 44 national and international scholarly databases including the CMIE database. The school library also offers automatic transactions and web-based search facilities.

Hostels and accommodation

The Vinod Gupta school of Management provides on-campus residential accommodation facility to all its students. The halls are not exclusively for their students but are shared with postgraduate students from other courses. Hostels are provided for both boys and girls. All the hostels are provided with internet connectivity in each room.
The institute also maintains a number of guest houses on campus, namely Technology Guest House Visveswaraya Guest House and Salt Lake Guest House in Kolkata Extension Centre of IIT Kharagpur.