COURSES OFFERED

• Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
  
  The course work is spread across a minimum of five terms. All FPM students, irrespective of their areas of specialization, take a set of compulsory courses in their field of specialization and other interest areas. All students are also required to take program-wide compulsory courses designed to provide breadth of knowledge in the field of management and also teaching and research skills. At the end of the first year, the student undergoes a summer placement.
  
  Upon completion of the course work, the students take the Area Comprehensive Examination (ACE). The ACE tests whether the student has obtained a satisfactory level of knowledge in his/her field of specialization and whether he/she has satisfactorily integrated the various courses taken in the area.
• Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP)
  
  The two-year full-time Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), rated as the toughest MBA programme in the world to get admission, is the flagship programme of IIMA. Its main objective is to develop young men and women into competent professional managers, capable of working in any sector of organized activity, proceeding leadership and achieving excellence in performance while contributing to the welfare of the larger society.
• Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM)
  
  The first year of the programme focuses on building fundamentals in the core concepts of management and providing the students basic conceptual and analytical skills required in different disciplines and functional areas for managerial effectiveness. To build on the synergies between PGP – General and PGP-ABM programmes and to provide the students an exposure to the complexity of managerial decision making, it has been decided to run the first year of the programme in common with PGP.
  
  To initiate students into building a perspective towards agriculture and rural sector, after first year PGP-ABM students undergo the first phase of Rural Immersion Module (RIM) in the summer vacation, which is followed by summer internship. Students undergo Rural Immersion in two phases for a total period of about four weeks and summer internship for a period of eight weeks with the institute’s corporate partners, which provide students field and organizational experience.
  
  The second year of the programme aims at building and deepening decision making skills within the specific context of rural and agriculture sectors. It consists of electives and compulsory courses and the second phase of Rural Immersion Module. The second year is designed to impart specialized multi-functional knowledge and skills required by food and agri-business sector managers for excellence in planning, decision-making, organization and implementation in different sub-sectors and activities in the sector including agriculture, food, and agribusiness, rural and allied sectors.
• One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)
  
  One Year Full-time Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)
  
  PGPX is a one-year, full time residential programme for executives with substantial work experience leading to a One Year Post-Graduate Diploma in Management for Executives. The design of PGPX is built on IIMA's well established experience of designing and running post-graduate management programmes for exceptionally bright students and a wide range of executive education programmes for practicing managers from many countries. PGPX students are selected through a rigorous admissions process that includes GMAT (www.mba.com), leadership profiling and personal interviews. The programme takes into account the substantial and varied experience the selected executives bring to the classroom. The objective of the programme is to develop bright, enthusiastic and high-initiative executives into management leaders and change agents in the global arena. The programme has a general management focus, including an emphasis on managing across borders and cultures. It has an international project (called International Immersion) besides teaching content drawn from many countries.
• Faculty Development Programme (FDP)
  
  The major focus of the FDP is on upgrading the teaching, training and research skills of management teachers—especially those teachers who have not had an opportunity to acquaint themselves with recent developments in teaching and research methods. The programme enables participants to develop competence in general management education as well. During the 16 weeks that the participants spend at the IIMA, they will undergo a set of discipline-based courses which include Strategy Formulation and Implementation etc. (please refer to the list of courses) The objective of this module is to develop a managerial perspective.
  
  Another set of courses aims at specific pedagogical and research skills. This includes Communication for Management Teachers; Academic Writing for Management Teachers; Research Methods; Applications for Data Analysis and the Case Method in Management Education.
  
  In addition, a limited number of elective courses are offered in some of the core functional areas.
  
  The participants will also make one or two field visits. A special feature of the programme is the Case Method in Management Education which results in a set of cases that the participants complete by the end of the programme. Participants have also made extensive use of the world class library resources that the IIMA offers.
• Armed Forces Programme (AFP)
  
  

  Term - I	Term - II	Term - III
  Financial Reporting and Analysis Economic Analysis and Policy Strategic Cost Management Marketing-I Managerial Computing Organizational Behaviour Communications for Managers Modeling For Decision Making Business Research Methods-I Organizational Performance Measurement	Financial Management Economic Environment-II Business Research Methods-II Operations Management Strategic Management Marketing-II Management Information Systems Human Resource Management Legal Aspects of Business Infrastructure Management Performance and Compensation Management	WTO Precepts Capital Markets and Portfolio Theory Training and Development Project Management Supply Chain Management Customer Relationship & Retail Management Organizational Diagnosis and Performance Health Services Management Business Dispute Resolution Entrepreneurship Emerging Trends in IT

Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP)

Eligibility Criteria

The candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [in case of the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA) category, this is relaxed to 45%], of any of the Universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. The bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification obtained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent. The percentage obtained by the candidate in the bachelor’s degree would be based on the practice followed by the university/ institution from where the candidate has obtained the degree.In case of the candidates being awarded grades/ CGPA instead of marks, the equivalence would be based on the equivalence certified by the university/ institution from where they have obtained bachelor's degree. In case the university/ institution does not have any scheme for converting CGPA into equivalent marks, the equivalence would be established by IIM Ahmedabad by dividing obtained CGPA with the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the resultant with 100.

Candidates appearing for the final year bachelor’s degree/ equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed degree requirement and are awaiting results can also apply. Such candidates must produce a certificate from the Principal/ Head of the Department/ Registrar/ Director of the university/ institution certifying that the candidate is currently in the final year/ is awaiting final results and has obtained at least 50% marks or equivalent (45% in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST/DA category) based on latest available grades/marks. Such candidates, if selected, will be allowed to join the programme provisionally only if they submit a certificate latest by June 30, of the respective year of admission from the Principal/Registrar of their college/institute (issued on or before June 30, of the respective year of admission) stating that they have completed all the requirements (the results may, however, be awaited) for obtaining the bachelor’s degree/ equivalent qualification on the date of issue of the certificate. Their admission will be confirmed only when the candidate submits the mark sheet and a certificate of having passed the bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification referred to in the certificate issued by the Principal/ Registrar with at least 50% marks (45% in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST/DA category). It is mandatory for the final year students, who are provisionally admitted, to submit the mark-sheet and degreecertificate of the final year bachelor’s degree examination held on or before June 30, of the respective year of admission (including supplementaries, if any), to be eligible for admission to the Post Graduate Programme. The deadline for submission of the mark sheet and the certificate is December 31, of the respective year of admission. Non-fulfillment of this condition will automatically result in the cancellation of the provisional admission. IIMA would not allow any candidate to join its programme in case the candidate is unable to complete all the requirements for a bachelor’sdegree on or before June 30, of the respective year. The IIMA would also not offer admission to any candidate after June 30, of the respective year.

Admission or Selection Process

The selection of candidates for admission to the PGP at IIM Ahmedabad is a two-step process.

In the first step, candidates are short-listed for Academic Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) from among the candidates who have a valid CAT 2015 score, who have applied to the programme and who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme.

Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM)

Eligibility Criteria

• The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in agricultural sciences or agriculture-related disciplines, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [in case of the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA) category, this is relaxed to 45%], of any of the Universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. The Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification obtained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent.
• OR
• The candidate must hold at least a Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in any non-agricultural discipline from a University or Institution as defined in the above paragraph and have a strong interest in agriculture, food, rural and allied sectors. Such candidates will be required to submit a special form as described in section 2.1 under admission procedure. Failure to submit the form will disqualify the candidate from being considered further for admission to the programme. The Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification obtained by the candidates must entail a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent.

Admission or Selection Process

The selection of candidates for admission to the PGP-FABM at IIM Ahmedabad is a two-step process.

In the first step, candidates will be short-listed for Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interviews (PI) from among candidates who have applied for the programme and have a valid CAT/GMAT1 score and satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme. An overseas category candidate who applies with a GMAT score instead of a CAT score should have a total scaled score of at least 700.

One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)

Eligibility Criteria

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any discipline. (Minimum 15 years of study as per the education system in India i.e. KG to 12 +2 + 3 or 4 as the case may be.)
• Minimum Age of 27 years as on 31st March of the year in which the PGPX programme commences. (E.g. For PGPX 16-17 commencing in April 2016, the candidate should have completed 27 years of age by March 31, 2016, i.e. must be born on or before March 31, 1989.) There is no upper age limit.
• GMAT (www.mba.com) score obtained in the last four years of start of programme. E.g. For PGPX 2016-17,
To ensure that your scores are sent directly to IIMA, please select “Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad - One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)”as one of the five programmes to which the GMAT results have to be sent from the menu provided by GMAT before the start of the test.)

INFRASTRUCTURE

• »  CLASSROOM
  There are six classrooms and five seminar rooms in the teaching wing. This is in addition to the seminar and conference rooms in the faculty wings. To facilitate case discussions, each classroom is an amphitheater. There are sixty-five revolving seats, with each seat having the nametag of the student. All classrooms have network connectivity to facilitate presentations. The new campus will add 5 more classrooms, 12 seminar rooms and an auditorium.
• »  DORMITORIES
  As an alumni pointed out, ‘the dorm is like the Gaulish village in Astreix books which opens with a free for all but always ends with merrymaking. You always came back to the dorm where a part of you belonged and a part of which belonged to you’. There are 25 student dormitories with a total capacity to hold about 740 occupants. Apart from the dormitories there are separate housing facilities available for married candidates. The dorms have ten single rooms on each floor arranged around a stairway and a tearoom.
• »  SPORTS COMPLEX
  Facilities for indoor/ outdoor games and recreation activities are available. Games such as Soccer, Cricket, Badminton, Lawn Tennis, Table tennis, Basketball, Volleyball and Hockey are very popular among the student community. Fitness conscious students can work out in the gymnasium or go for a jog around the scenic campus. For those who prefer to stay indoors, there is Chess, Carom or Bridge. During COMBOS - the Institute's intramural cultural fete - IIMA is a divided house where the dorms are split into three groups, and pitted against each other in literary, cultural and sports competitions.
• »  FITNESS CENTRE
  IIMA has a Fitness Centre located at Class room no. 324 on the Old Campus covering an area of 1740 square feet. The fitness centre has equipment for various stretching, floor and body-building exercises - tread mills, recumbent cycle, elliptical cycle, multigym, dumbells & plates, weights, shoulder press, leg-pull, swift bike, leg extension, incline shoulder, cross trainers, double twisters, etc.
  
  On an average 135 members take benefit of the fitness centre every month including staff, faculty and students under the guidance of able fitness trainer Mr. Kamlesh Parmar who has an experience of over 10 years in the field. The centre is open from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm with special batches for Ladies running from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm).
  
  IIMA is planning to double the facilities and add more equipments to the fitness centre.
• »  LIBRARY
  Please click here to visit the library website.
• »  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE
  The world-class infrastructure created on the Institute’s hundred-acre campus provides an ambience conducive to stimulating learning. The architecture, the classrooms, the library, the computing facilities, research centres, all blend to provide a holistic learning environment.
  
  A state-of-the-art computer network with more than 2000 nodes connects all the members of the Institute community with each other. This network has fibre optics backbone with one or more fibre segments reaching every building on the campus.

FOOD

• »  Cafes
  
  • Tanstaafl Cafe
  • Food King
  • Coffee Express
• »  Student Mess - Main Campus
• »  Student Dining Room - New Campus (Above IMDC Dining Hall)
• »  KLMDC & IMDC Mess
• »  Staff Mess
• »  Off Campus Eateries

Students' Personal and Career Development Centre (SPCDC)

The Students’ Personal and Career Development Centre has been set up by the institute to provide students, staff and faculty members with a forum for personal exploration, self awareness and professional growth through a range of psychological and psychotherapeutic services. It aims to help students develop effective skills for addressing life situations, engage in self exploration and awareness, and address concerns in specific areas such as academics, interpersonal relationships, identity issues and professional development. The services offered include individual, couple and small group counselling, and psychometric testing.

The decade following independence in 1947 was witness to a surge of innovative ideas to build a fledgling independent nation into a model democratic state committed to growth with equity in the development of its people. The establishment of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) was the outcome of one such innovative initiative.

Led by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Shri. Kasturbhai Lalbhai and proactively supported by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Dr. Jivraj Mehta, a group of enlightened individuals set up IIMA. This group ably wove together a coalition of five actors - the governments at the centre and the state, the local industrialists, the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Business School, in a true spirit of public private partnership to establish the Institute.

The constitution for governance of IIMA was different from that for traditional universities. It was set up as an institution that would be managed by a Society, the IIMA Society, created under the Societies Act, for the purpose. The Institute was to be run by the Board of Governors, constituted by the IIMA Society; the Board would have wide representation from all the relevant constituencies to reflect the multifarious needs of a developing nation. IIMA was therefore conceived as an Institute that would be a Board managed institution, free from exclusive control of any one constituency. Thus, operational freedom is an integral part of the DNA of IIMA.

IIMA has consistently been ranked as the number one management school in the country year after year in the last several years. In its latest ranking, The Economist has ranked IIMA at 56 among the top 100 international B-schools in the world that offer full time MBA. The Financial Times (FT) has ranked the two-year post graduate programme in management (PGP) of IIMA in the top ten programmes in the category of Masters Programmes in Management that do not require work experience as pre-requisite for admission. FT reported that this was the first time that any Indian B-school was not only included in the survey but also achieved such high ranking. The Financial Times has also ranked the one-year post graduate programme in management for executives (PGPX) among the top MBA programmes globally. The two post graduate programme in management with specialization in agri-sector (PGP-ABM) is ranked at number one among comparable programmes globally by Eduniversal.

In 2008, IIMA also became the first business school in the country to be awarded EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation. This accreditation awarded by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) certifies that the quality of IIMA’s academic processes and programmes are on par with the best business schools globally that have similar accreditation.