Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research is a Business School in India. Run by charitable TrustShikshan Prasarak Mandali, Pune, in the state of Maharashtra. WeSchool, Mumbai, established in 1977 offers Post Graduate Diploma in Management in new areas as Retail, Family Managed Business, Business Design & Innovation, Rural Management, Healthcare Management, Media & Entertainment Management and E-business. Weschool, Bangalore was established in 2008 at Electronic City Phase -1 and has 3 full-time courses: PGDM, PGDM–E Biz and PGDM-Business Design & Innovation. WeSchool has programs such as Post graduation in Business management, Business Design and Innovation, E-business, Retail, Healthcare, Rural Management, programs for Family Managed business, initiated several partnerships with industry and international universities. In 2015, WeSchool received the 'AICTE -CII best industry-linked management institute' award.
Key milestones
1977: MANDALI sets up Prin L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
Post Graduate Program in Media & Entertainment Management
Campuses
WeSchool Mumbai
WeSchool expanded from the small space of 10,000 sq ft to the newer campus with total area of 1, 70,000 square feet.
WeSchool-Bangalore
The Bengaluru campus of Welingkar was inaugurated in 2008., on a 1.5-acre property in Electronic City, Bangalore, in the vicinity of over 180 IT companies. Being a residential school, there are over 300 students studying at WeSchool, all from different parts of the country. The Bangalore Campus is known for its various events conducted by Career Management Center involving several sector-based Industry Roundtables to engage senior members from the Corporate and invite them for sectorial discussions at Welingkar, where the students can also present their learnings and projects. There are annual sports events Jogabonito and We-cricket where alumni, faculty, and students participate. The college has a cafeteria called Unwind and a ‘Hobby Kitchen’ where students can prepare food for themselves and sports facilities like gym, table tennis, a billiards room and Badminton Courts. There are various clubs in the college- MPower- The Marketing Club, Arthakul- The Finance Club, Ethnos- HR Club, Operations Club which organize various events, roundtables, conferences every year enabling to students to build industrial connections and interact with the experts in the field.
The autonomous Welingkar Institute of Management offers distance learning programs. It is one of the few institutions whose distance learning programs have been accredited by Distance Education Council, a body of the Central Govt. of India. Distance Education Council has been set up by the Govt. of India under the IGNOU Act for assessment and accreditation of distance education institutes in India. Welingkar's Distance Learning Program was appraised by DEC with regard to its content, quality of education and its delivery systems. Specializations available:
