MBA
IIM Bangalore - Indian Institute of Management
Indian Institute of Management, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru - 560076 IndiaUniversity Information
Course Details
- The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) is a master’s level program, leading to the grant of a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA). The two-year fulltime residential program is designed to equip students to take on leadership roles in an increasingly complex and dynamic global scenario. It lasts six trimesters, spread over two years, with a summer project intermediary. PGP is one of the most highly placed programs in global rankings.
- IIMB benchmarks its curriculum against the best in the world to ensure that it delivers quality business education, based on the best pedagogic practices. The course content and design are inspired by management practice backed by a strong fundamental framework with an orientation towards contemporary and emerging management issues. The program lays the foundation for conceptual and analytical reasoning and gives the students an insight into the dynamics of business. It revolves around the principle that business leaders are not mass-produced; they are nurtured and developed with care. IIMB believes in building leaders through holistic, transformative and innovative education.
- IIMB has multi-disciplinary Centres of Excellence that focus on different areas such as Capital Markets, Corporate Governance & Citizenship, Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, Supply Chain Management, etc.
- At the core of IIMB is its faculty, a 140-plus group of highly qualified researchers, academicians and practitioners from universities and industries worldwide. The faculty members generate knowledge through cutting-edge research and consulting in all functional areas of management.
Admission Process
The admissions department follows a well-defined and detailed admission process which judges candidates on a number of parameters since empirical research on recruitment and selection shows the efficacy of multiple criteria.
IIMB has found over the years that students who perform well in the academic programme are typically those who have a consistently good academic record during their school, high school and graduation level, besides exhibiting sufficiently high aptitude as measured by CAT (Common Admission Test if the IIMs)/GMAT. Therefore IIMB uses multiple parameters, namely academic performance in school, high school and graduation programmes as well as candidate’s scores in CAT/GMAT to judge the suitability of candidates for the PGP programme. Relevant work experience, if any, is also given weightage. The CAT/GMAT score, over and above being a selection criterion, is also used to establish the minimum level of proficiency that is expected from the candidate in respective faculties as indicated by section-wise minimum scores in the CAT/GMAT. Multiple criteria are used to arrive at a composite score for every candidate, which is used to select candidates for the subsequent stage.
Thus the CAT/GMAT score is one of the more important parameters. The CAT/GMAT score that is used as a cutoff varies from year to year. The admission process includes a personal interview, conducted through remote video conferencing for international students, and an assessment of writing ability.
