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Indian Institue of Management Calcutta

Over the years, IIMC has grown into a mature institution with global reputation, imparting high quality management education. It has been playing a pioneering role in professionalising Indian management through its Post Graduate and Doctoral level programs, Executive Training Programs, Research and Consulting Activities.
Today, the institute serves as an autonomous body, continually evolving to meet its goals in an ever-changing business environment.
The vision of the Institute is to emerge as an International Centre of Excellence in all facets of Management Education, rooted in Indian ethos and societal values. Over the past four decades, IIM Calcutta has blossomed into one of Asia's finest Business Schools. Its strong ties to the business community make it an effective mechanism for the promotion of professional management practices in Indian organizations. Today, IIM Calcutta attracts the best talent in India - a melting pot of academia, industry and research. The best and brightest young men and women pursue its academic programs.

Programs offered:

1) Post Graduate Programs
2) Doctoral Programs
3) Executive Education

Post Graduate Programs:

Post Graduate Diploma in Management for Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing (PGDM-VLM)
The mission of the VLMP is to develop future visionary leaders for the manufacturing sector in India so as to enhance the global competitiveness of our manufacturing sector.
The major attributes of this program will be:
• Joint Diploma Program of IIM Calcutta(IIMC), IIT Kanpur(IITK) and IIT Madras(IITM)
• One year full time residential program
• 32 weeks Classroom lectures, case studies, tutorials, lab sessions, project work at IIMC, IITM and IITK; each week has 6 working days; total 960 contact hours
• 13 weeks internship in industry
• 7 weeks industry visits in India and abroad
• The program is meant for promising engineers drawn from the manufacturing sector, who have the potential for top management positions.
• Program will involve development of leadership and management skills together with cutting edge technology awareness and proficiency.
• The program will have a proper balance of theoretical inputs and practical training to develop a high degree of leadership skill which would enable Indian companies convert manufacturing into a competitive weapon.
• Course delivery through an appropriate mix of class room lectures, case studies, individual and team assignments
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/vlm.asp

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)

This full-time two year residential programme trains students to become excellent general managers and high-level-decision-makers with broad strategic vision. It views management as an integrated process and helps students to develop a global view and respond effectively to changes in the economic, technological, cultural and political environments. Students also acquire specific skills in such areas as accounting, finance, marketing, operations, and management.
The course enjoys a two-tier structure. The first year is committed to developing business fundamentals through compulsory courses spanning the areas of economics, finance, marketing, operations, systems and behavioral sciences. The second year offers more number of electives than any other B-School in India. The flexibility in the system ensures that a student at no point makes a compromise with his desired area of pursuit.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgdm/index.asp

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management (PGDCM)

This is a full-time two year residential Programme similar to PGDM with an additional emphasis on use of Information Technology (IT) in management. IT has revolutionized business practices and the PGDCM programme has been designed to introduce students to IT-applications in business and industry and provide them with an integrated perspective of different functional areas of management.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgdcm/index.asp
Post Graduate Programme for Executives
What sets IIMC apart from all other management schools in India is its analytical pedagogy.

It is a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and case discussion that equips future managers to develop deep understanding of required skills and their application. Debate and interactive discussions are an integral part of IIMC’s pedagogy.
Course delivery through an appropriate mix of classroom lectures, case studies, individual and team assignments. The programme will be delivered by IIMC faculty along with international faculty of repute.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/pgpex/index.htm

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (PGDBM)

IIMC launched this 3-Year Part Time Evening Programme of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) in 1994 as one of its major initiatives.
The Institute's concern for conducting this Evening Programme in Business Management emerged from the appreciation of a responsibility to offer a quality management education to the young practicing and in-service executives of organizations. This also needs to be seen as the critical and continuing effort by IIMC to professionalize the junior and mid-level management within organizations, one of the major agenda of our time. Through this programme, IIMC facilitates a process through which the students integrate their real-life work experiences with the conceptual and analytical foundations and developments in management disciplines. The focus of this Programme is to inculcate among the students such perceptions, knowledge, skills and abilities as would enable them to become effective managers in the modern business - and to assume higher levels of managerial responsibilities.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/PGDBM/index.asp

Doctoral Program:

The Fellow Programme of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is a full-time doctoral programme in different fields and related disciplines of Management. The objective of the programme is to prepare students for careers in teaching and research in Management or in the related disciplines, and also for positions outside academics, which require advanced research and analytical capabilities. The fellow program at IIMC focuses on training outstanding scholars whose teaching and research will advance management education and practice, and is capable of meeting the continued need for qualified faculty in leading business schools in India and abroad.

Many of its graduates, are now serving in research environments in industrial firms around the world, and are in top academic positions in the leading business schools in India and are leaders in their fields.
The programme offers a unique opportunity to engage in high-quality intradisciplinary as well as interdisciplinary research. A distinctive feature of the Institute is that its faculty resources are not broken up into water-tight departments, but are treated as belonging to one unit. This makes for a degree of cross-fertilization of ideas as also a quality of multidisciplinary research that is practically impossible to attain under the conventional university set-up. At the same time, a long-standing strength of IIM Calcutta has been its recognition of specialized research in the basic disciplines at par with and even exceeding the standards of the best universities.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/FPM/index.asp

Executive Education:

IIM Calcutta Consultancies and Management Development Programs take the process of continuing executive education farther. All Programs contribute to management development within the structure and systems of organizational behavior, blending management theory and tools with practical insights and participation. But most of all … we believe that the participant is the most important component of our Management Development Programs. The globalized business environment demands that managers leverage the most advanced approaches to keep abreast of change. New protocols and policies, GAAP and GATT, Six Sigma, Environmental Auditing, CSR, Ethics in Management, NGO Management … these are some of the core subjects of our Management Development programs today.In addition, IIM Calcutta structures Customized Programs based on specific inquiries and requirements, and undertakes Project Consultancy services for Companies, Central and State Governments, Civil and Administrative Services, Defence Services, Funding Agencies, Rural Development Councils ... the list is endless.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/edp/default.asp

Campus:

The 135-acre campus of the Institute has a cluster of Administrative and Faculty Office Blocks, fully equipped classrooms, seminar and conference rooms, Management Center for Human Values, residential quarters for students, faculty and staff members, library, an executive training complex, a bank and a post office. The 750-seat state-of-the-art Auditorium is the latest addition to the campus.
The presence of the lush trees and seven lakes makes the campus picturesque and well endowed. IIMC is an acknowledged leader in computing resource and applications. The Institute's computer Center has emerged as a center of excellence in the area of Computer Applications in Management. The campus wide LAN encompasses 1000 nodes/workstations. LAN connectivity is available in each room in the students' hostels, providing the students with 24-hour access to resources like the local network and the Internet from the comfort of their rooms.

Library :

The institute’s Bidhan Chandra Roy library was started initially with a liberal Ford foundation grant, and over the last 36 years has grown into a major learning resource center in South Asia.Housing over 1,50,000 volumes,this imposing repository of knowledge is housed in a spacious building between the Students' Hostels and the Academic Block, overlooking the blue lakes at its eastern and northern sides.It also subscribes to several hundred journals and provides access to a exhaustive collection of eletronic databases which provide information about global and indian industry. .

Hostels:

The campus has four hostels that provide single room accommodation to students with modern amenities and recreation facilities. All the hostels have their own coffee shops,canteens, photocopy units and printer rooms. Every room has its own network connection, which enables fast and round-the-clock Internet access. For the visitors, the institute provides guest-rooms. To take care of the married students’ needs, the institute has provided separate accommodation facilities for them. Intercom telephones are available in each hostel room with direct inward dialing facilities. Other facilities include state-of-the-art washing machines in every hostel wing for the convenience of students supplimented by dhobis. A Cafe Coffee Day outlet is also operational on campus

Faculty:

One of the biggest strengths of the Institute is its world renowned faculty. The faculty members have distinguished academic achievements in different areas of management and the related basic disciplines and are actively involved in teaching, training, research and consulting. They carry out consultancy assignments to keep in touch with the real-life management problems in public and private corporations, financial institutions, government agencies and international agencies.
This dynamic learning process at IIMC enriches teaching and training activities of the faculty. It also helps development of case studies and identification of directions of research relevant for business and industry.
IIMC has about 70 faculty members belonging to one or more of the following groups and centers: Behavioural Science, Economics, Environment, Finance & Control, Marketing, Management Information Systems, Operations Management, Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, Resource Management, Regional Development, Sociology, Strategic Management, Management Center for Human Values, Center for Development and Environment Policy.
http://www.iimcal.ac.in/faculty/faculty.asp

Fees and Expenses:

Post Graduate:
The Fee Structure for the students of the Post Graduate Program for the 43rd Session (2006-2008) at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is as follows:

Particulars 1st Term 2nd Term 3rd Term Total
1. Tuition Fees 36,000.00 36,000.00 36,000.00 1,08,000.00
2. Room Rent 3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 9,000.00
3. Course Materials 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 15,000.00
4. Computer Charges 6,000.00 6,000.00 6,000.00 18,000.00
5. Library Fees 6,000.00 6,000.00 6,000.00 18,000.00
6. Medical Insurance Charges 600.00 600.00
7. Development Fees 5,000.00 5,000.00
8. Students’ Association Fees 600.00 600.00
9. Alumni Activities 2,200.00 2,200.00
10. Caution Deposit 6,000.00 6,000.00
Total 70,400.00 56,000.00 56,000.00 1,82,400.00
*Without caution deposit *1,76,400.00



Particulars 4th Term 5th Term 6th Term Total
1. Tuition Fees 36,000.00 36,000.00 36,000.00 1,08,000.00
2. Room Rent 3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 9,000.00
3. Course Materials 5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 15,000.00

Doctoral Program:

No tuition fee is charged. Each student is given a stipend of Rs. 10,000/- to 11,000/- per month and an annual contingency grant of Rs. 10,000/- to 20,000/- for four years which can be extended by another year depending on satisfactory performance. Infosys Technologies Limited has constituted one scholarship amounting to Rs. 15,000/- per month for a maximum period of three years for a student doing his research in the MIS area. The student is also entitled to Rs. 75,000/- per year, for contingency expenditure and field work as per Institute's rules.

Students are usually provided hostel accommodation in the campus on payment. Some hostel facilities are also available for married students.

Ranking:

MBA rankings 2007
Business World 2007: #4
India Today 2007: #3
Outlook 2007: #2

Placement and Recruiters:

Placement Statistics 2006-07

A total of 108 companies participated (72 during final placement and 36 during laterals). 89 students took up slot 0 offers this time, up from 64 last year, which is a record for IIMC. The highest foreign salary offered to any management student ever on Indian soil went to an IIMCian this year – US$ 250,000(Rs 1.1 Crores). This offer was made to two students by a leading investment bank for their New York desk. Of course, the previous record of US$ 221,000 also belonged to IIMC.

The highest domestic salary offered was a whopping Rs 40 lakhs. Unlike most B-Schools these were not mere outliers, proven by the staggering rise in the domestic average salary in Slot 0 to Rs 20.9 lakh from Rs 14.8 lakh last year.

Alumni:

IIMC has a very strong alumni base, which makes it unique among the top management institutes of the world. IIMC alumni are occupying leadership positions as corporate managers, academicians and successful entrepreneurs, worldwide. The alumni maintain a close relation with the Institute, helping each other in their growth.

http://www.iimcal.ac.in/alumni/default.asp

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