IIM Calcutta

After India became independent in 1947, the Planning Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the development of the nation. India grew rapidly in the 1950s, and in the late 1950s the Commission started facing difficulties in finding suitable managers for the large number of public sector enterprises that were being established in India as a part of its industrial policy. To solve this problem, the Planning Commission in 1959 invited Professor George Robbins of the University of California to help in setting up an all India level institute of management studies. Based on his recommendations, the Indian government decided to set up two elite management institutes, named Indian Institutes of Management.

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta was the first of these IIMs, and was established on 13 November 1961 in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management, the government of West Bengal, the Ford Foundation and the Indian industry. Its first Director was K. T. Chandy, the former Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited. During the initial years of IIM Calcutta, several renowned academics and visionaries formed part of its core team, including Paul Samuelson, Jagdish Sheth, J K Sengupta, Peter S King, and Thomas Hill.

History

IIM Calcutta’s flagship PGP program was ranked 13th in the world, the highest in Asia, in the Financial Times Masters in Management rankings in 2014. In the same ranking, it was ranked no. 1 worldwide in Finance and Economics. IIM-C was ranked ninth by the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report in the Asia-Pacific region for 2012. In India, IIM-C was ranked 2nd in India by Outlook and Business Today in 2013. It was also ranked second by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011 and third by the Hindustan Times India’s top 50 business schools of 2011 and by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18’s Top B-Schools in India.

Rankings

• Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) – Two-year, full-time MBA programme.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer aided Management (PGDCM) – Two-year, full-time MBA programme.

• Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) – Doctoral programme.

• Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPEX) – One-year, full-time MBA programme for Executives.

• Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) – One-year, full-time Executive MBA programme.

•Executive Education: Management Development Programmes (MDP) and Custom Corporate Programmes

•Management Programmes for Armed Forces Officers (AFP)

•Distance Education programmes via technology/platform partners such as HughesNet Global Education and NIIT Imperia

•Research and Consultancy programmes

Academic Programmes

The main campus of IIM Calcutta, covering 135 acres (0.5 km2) of area, is located in Joka, on the outskirts of Kolkata, India. The institute moved to its present campus in 1975. IIM Calcutta is regarded as the B-School which offers the best on-campus living experience amongst Indian B-Schools.

The IIM-C campus includes world-class teaching infrastructure and academic buildings designed and continually updated to facilitate learning. Thanks to our supportive alumni, the school has never had to compromise in creating these exceptional facilities.

Campus Life

IIM Calcutta offers on-campus accommodation for students enrolled in residential programmes. Our five modern residence halls provide study areas and social spaces open to the entire community. Our latest addition to the list is a world-class hostel, ‘Lake View Hostel.’

IIM Calcutta’s academic and administrative buildings house classrooms of different sizes and seating capacities, group study areas, conference rooms, lounges, a business/engineering library, and offices for faculty and staff.IIMC’s cutting-edge information technology environment offers the latest classroom instructional technology, computing, video conferencing, and integrated collaboration services. This is made possible by a high-speed converged voice, data and video network with secure wireless access available throughout the campus. Students and faculty can also connect to our network securely from around the world.

IIM-C has 4 main hostels for students pursuing its PGDM, PGDCM and Fellow programmes – Ramanujan Hostel (colloquially called Old Hostel), Tagore Hostel & Annex (collectively called the White Hostel), New Hostel and Lake View Hostel. Students with families are provided separate family accommodation. However, PGP students are provided single boarding accommodation only. Preference is given to FPM & PGPEX students for hostel allotment. There are separate hostels for PGPEX and PGPEX-VLM programmes. Students pursuing other courses are usually provided accommodation in the Tata Hall, the guest house in the campus.

Hostel

IIM Calcutta has an extensive network of partner B-schools worldwide through which it conducts student exchange programmes. For the Post Graduate Programme, the student exchange programme (STEP) is usually held in the fifth term, between August–September and December. Every year during this period, more than a hundred students from IIM Calcutta leave for foreign institutes, and an equivalent number from various B-schools arrive in IIM Calcutta to spend the term there. Other academic programmes of IIM-C also offer exchange programmes. The institutes with which IIM Calcutta has student exchange relationships are:

Europe

•Austria 1. University of Applied Sciences Kufstein2. Vienna University of Economics and Business

• Belgium 1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven2. Louvain School of Management3. Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

•Czech Republic 1. University of Economics, Prague

Student Exchange Programmes

• Denmark

1. Aarhus School of Business

2. Copenhagen Business School

• Finland

1. Aalto University School of Business

2. Turku School of Economics

• France

1. BEM Management School

2. EMLYON Business School

3. EDHEC Business School (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord)

4. Toulouse Business School

5. ESCP Europe

6. ESSEC Business School

7. IESEG School of Management

8. Reims Management School

9. SKEMA Business School Sophia Antipolis

10. SKEMA Business School Lille

11. HEC Paris

•Germany 1. EBS University of Business and Law

2. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

3. HHL, Leipzig Graduate School of Management

4. Münster School of Business Administration and Economics

5. University of Mannheim

6. WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management

7. University of Cologne

• Hungary 1. Corvinus University of Budapest

• Ireland 1. UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

• Italy 1. Bocconi University

2. University of Milan Bicocca

• Norway 1. BI Norwegian Business School

2. NHH Norwegian School of Economics

• Poland 1. Warsaw School of Economics

• Portugal 1. Nova School of Business and Economics

• Spain 1. IE Business School

2. ESADE Business School

• Sweden 1. Jönköping International Business School

2. Stockholm School of Economics

• Switzerland 1. University of St. Gallen

• Netherlands 1. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

2. University of Amsterdam

•Turkey 1. Koç University Graduate School of Business

•United Kingdom 1. Leeds University Business School, The University of Leeds

2. Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University

3. The London School of Economics and Political Science

Asia Pacific

•Australia 1. Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics

2. Queensland University of Technology

3. University of Melbourne

4. University of Sydney Business School

•China 1. HKUST Business School

2. Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

3. Beijing University of International Business and Economics

• Japan 1. Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University

2. Keio University

• South Korea 1. KAIST Graduate School of Management

• Philippines 1. Asian Institute of Management

• Russia 1. Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

• Singapore 1. National University of Singapore

•Thailand 1. Asian Institute of Technology

Americas

• Brazil

1. EAESP, São Paulo Business School

2. EBAPE, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration

•Canada

1. Richard Ivey School of Business

2. Wilfrid Laurier University

•United States of America

1. Babcock Graduate School of Management

2. Baruch College, City University of New York

3. Olin Business School

4. Pepperdine University

5. Southern Methodist University

6. Simmons College, School of Management

7. University of Connecticut School of Business

8. University of Colorado Boulder

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