Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta


Established	1961
Type	Education and Research Institution
Director	Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Campus	Urban, 135 Acres
Website	www.iimcal.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) is a national institute imparting post graduate education in management. It is located at Joka, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata city, in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the oldest of the six Indian Institutes of Management.

[edit] History

[edit] Founding

IIMC was established in November 1961, in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management, the government of West Bengal, the Ford Foundation and Indian industry. During its initial years, several prominent faculty formed part of its nucleus, including Paul Samuelson, Jagdish Sheth, J. K. Sengupta, among others.

[edit] Evolution

The institute started functioning from a new campus in Joka, with the admission of the thirteenth batch. As of 2006, forty one batches have graduated out of this institute.

Over the years, IIMC has grown into a mature institution with a global reputation, imparting high quality management education. It has been playing a pioneering role in professionalizing Indian management through its post graduate and doctoral level programs, executive training programs, and research and consulting activities.

The vision of the institute is to emerge as an international center of excellence in all facets of management education, rooted in Indian ethos and societal values. Over the past four decades, IIMC has developed into one of Asia's finest business schools. Its strong ties with industry make it an effective institution for the promotion of professional management practices in Indian organizations. Today, IIMC attracts some of the best talent in India - a melting pot of academia, industry and research.

[edit] Academic Programs

The main thrust of the academic programs is to help the student imbibe a sense of strategic outlook to management problems. The emphasis therefore, is on management as an integrated process, and requires the students to develop a global view of the economic, technological, cultural and political environment of business.

The institute offers four major diploma programs:

Fellow Program (FP) in Management and Related Disciplines
Post-Graduate Diploma in Management for Executives (PGPEX)
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management (PGDCM)
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM)
Executive Program for Young Professionals / Young Managers (EPYP/YM).
Executive Program in Business Management (EPBM)

[edit] Fellow Program (FP)

The FP Programme offers an opportunity for full-time advanced study and Research at the Doctoral Level in management and related areas. The aim is to produce best learned and trained faculty, consultants and researchers in various offered domains. The selection is on the basis of the candidate's performance in the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the [Indian Institutes of Management] a very small list of candidates is short-listed for each discipline. The research interest of the candidate is also a criteria to choose suitable candidates for next rounds from the shortlist. They then undergo rounds of department and FP committee interviews. On the basis of the overall satisfaction of the department faculty and the FP committee some or none of the students are finally selected. The FP programme at IIMC is one the most reputed in Country for its rigour, quality and research contributions.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/FPM/index.asp

[edit] Post-Graduate Diploma in Management for Executives (PGPEX)

In sync with its philosophy of continuous innovation in management education, IIMC has launched a one-year full time residential program for executives (PGPEX) in December 2006. On successful completion of the program, participants would be awarded a Diploma titled Post-Graduate Diploma in Management for Executives. The mission of the PGPEX program is to develop experienced and ambitious executives for leadership positions in global organizations.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/pgpex/index.asp

[edit] Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)

The PGDM Program is designed to meet the challenges of rapid changes in our society. Students are continually exposed to scenarios that demand structuring of unstructured problems and proposing solutions to complex situations. To gain admission to this program, candidates (except for those admitted under the small non-resident Indian quota) must appear in the nationwide Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management. Based on their performance in CAT, a small list of candidates is short-listed. They then undergo rounds of group discussion and personal interview. Only a minority of the candidates part of the original short-list are finally selected.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgdm/index.asp

[edit] Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management (PGDCM)

In 1994, the two-year full-time PGDCM program was started. This program fulfils the demand for global business managers, by reorienting management education to keep pace with the changing needs of the world. It is a distinctive program with special emphasis on Information Technology (IT) and its application to business. The criteria for admission are the same as that of the PGDM program, except that candidates short-listed based on CAT scores must also take an aptitude test in mathematics.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgdcm/index.asp

[edit] Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM)

The PGDBM program is a three year long program meant for working professionals. It was launched in 1994 to offer working executives the opportunity to gain insights into various facets of management. With the quick growth of the Information Technology industry in Kolkata, a substantial number of students on the rolls for this program are computer software professionals with a high level of industry experience. This program also attracts talent from a wide range of other sectors including banking, telecommunication, insurance, engineering, agro-based, public sector, government, NGO and military. Students are admitted to this course based on their CAT score and a personal interview. To gain admission, a candidate must have a minimum of two years of full time paid work experience in a managerial or supervisory role. As of 2006, 10 batches of students have graduated under this program.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/PGDBM/index.asp

[edit] Executive Program for Young Professionals/Young Managers (EPYP/YM)

EPYP/YM is an intensive One-Year Post Graduate Executive Program (modeled as per Exe. MBA) designed by IIM Calcutta for Young working Executives/Managers with work experience from leading organisations. YPP/YMP has been designed to provide such a group of young people with both perspective and skill in management and also equip them with critical inputs required to do well in select functional areas. EPYP/YM is a General Management Program based On Campus & Off campus (VSAT) module spread over one year duration with specialization options in Marketing, Finance and Operations.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/edp/ld.asp

[edit] Executive Program in Business Management (EPBM)

COURSE OBJECTIVE To provide a broad perspective on various functional areas of management To help participants develop managerial skills required to operate successfully in modern day business environment.

PROGRAM DESIGN Total 14 courses spread over 86 sessions, each of 3 hour duration, once or twice a week during weekdays or weekends. 76 out 86 sessions will be delivered in cities or towns where the participants stay, using satellite based education system. 10 sessions will be held at IIM Calcutta campus over 5 days sometime during April to June. Evaluation based on examination Details of courses are available from IIM Calcutta website.

    For details visit:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/edp/ld.asp

[edit] Campus

The foundation stone of the Joka campus was laid by Sri Morarji Desai, the then Dy. Prime Minister of India on Dec 15, 1968. The Institute moved to its present campus in 1975. The institute is located in its own sprawling 135 acres campus in Joka, away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis. IIM Calcutta has one of the most breath-takingly beautiful academic campuses in the country - spotted with scenic locales, five lakes, exotic birds, and a miniature Howrah Bridge.

[edit] 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 an exhaustive collection of eletronic databases which provide information about global and Indian industry.

[edit] Teaching Block

The main Academic Block has four spacious lecture halls and several classrooms. The lecture halls and classrooms are Air-conditioned and are equipped with state-of-the-art Audio-visual facilities. The academic block is located amidst lush green lawns, which create an inspiring ambience for the learning process. The New Teaching Block has additional air-conditioned, multimedia enabled lecture halls. The Placement Cell, the place where the dreams of our students take tangible shape, is also located in the NTB.

[edit] Auditorium

IIM Calcutta's auditorium is the best among those on any academic campus in the country. This world-class facility seats 750 and was built at a cost of over Rs 9 crores. In addition to air-conditioning, it is also equipped with a ultra modern , professional level light and sound system. The Audi, as we call it, hosts all the major events on the IIM C campus - from the Convocation and Intaglio to visits by emminent personalities like Kapil Dev or Indra Nooyi.

[edit] 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. The hostels also have intercom facility in all the wings. 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.

[edit] Tata Hall

The Tata Hall provides accommodation to executives coming for Management Development Programmes. It consists of 56 residential rooms, four suites and three conference rooms. There is a plush dining hall, which caters to the occupants of Tata Hall. The suites present are double rooms while the other rooms provide single accommodation. Amenities like Phone, Fax, TV and Internet access are available here.

[edit] Computing facilities

The institute has always attached special importance to the use of information technology by the academic community. The institute deploys a network of around 1000 PCs, 4 digital Alpha servers, one IBM RS-6000 server and seven Novell file servers. Through a 2MBPS and 64 KBPS radio link with VSNL users get unlimited access to the Internet. A host of electronic databases like Bloomberg, Prowess and Capitaline providing information on the global and Indian corporate world are also accessible likewise. IIM C was the first management institute in the country to truly realise the potential of IT in education and create a truly wired campus. We still maintain that vision and passion.

[edit] Management Center for Human Values

The Management Center for Human Values is the crystallization of two decades of aspirations and effort to bring to the members of human organizations and institutions - in India and abroad - contemporary adaptations of the perennial corpus of Indian psycho-philosophical wisdom. It has taken up the mission of integrating the soft and subtle dimension of human values with the mainstream of skill-dominated management education. The center is located in a serene part of the campus and is surrounded by beautiful gardens. Its striking conical buildings are architectural masterpieces on the outside and quite sanctums of learning and contemplation on the inside.

[edit] Noted alumni

Ms. Indra Nooyi - Chairman and CEO PepsiCo, Inc. ^[1]
Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan - Founder and CEO of Rediff.com ^[2]
Dr. Krishna Palepu - Professor, Harvard Business School
Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney - McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Kellogg School of Management
Dr. Arvind Bhambri (1975) - Assoc. Professor in Management and Organization, USC Marshall School of Business ^[3]
Mr. Pradeep Kashyap - MD, Citicorp Overseas Corp., USA
Mr. R. Ramraj - MD & CEO, Satyam Infoway
Dr. Suresh Sundaresan - Chair Professor, Columbia University
Mr. Venky Krishnakumar - Regional Director, Citibank

[edit] Best Things About IIM Calcutta

[edit] The Great Lakes

There are seven lakes on the campus. Every one of them larger than the previous. One always sees at least one lake irrespective of where he/she is in the campus. Provides the twin advantage of cooling the air and having an option to swim anytime, anywhere (though it is both prohibited and not advisable). The institute practises pisciculture in the lakes and there is a large catch of fish that goes out every week. There is one boat that keps changing lakes and is the love of every IIM Calcutta student's life.

[edit] The Howrah Bridge

The Howrah Bridge is a small scale replica of the actual Howrah Bridge over the Hoogly. Built over one of the seven lakes, it has the most amazing view of the sunrise in the campus. Almost every morning at 4, there are students here watching the sun rise or listening to the birds chirping or just enjoying the mist and dew after their all night studying binge.

[edit] Night Canteen

Located in each of the three hostels, these are the places where the 'real' academic discussions happen. Over a game of table tennis and a cup of hot tea along with yummy aloo parantha, students go into the wee hours of the morning discussing the last class, the next company and the latest movie on the LAN. This is the place where most of activity happens - day and night. If you want to experience the life of an IIMCian, come here.

[edit] Someplace Else

Technically, this isn't within the campus. But for most IIMCians, this is in their hearts. Someplace Else is the best pub in Calcutta (most IIMCians maintain its the best in the country) and the favourite city hangout. Every weekend, after a hectic 5 days of non-stop lectures, assignments and submissions, students go in hordes of taxis to Someplace Else to groove to their superbly crafted music selections or dance to beat of their amazing live performances. Heck, even the management and the waiters know the IIMCians when they see them. May 2006, the pub got a special song played for the outgoing class of 2006. Just like that.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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