Highly ranked business school IMI Delhi to open a campus in Bhubaneswar
November 13th, 2009
Update: A Business Standard report has some additional information on this. Following are some excerpts.
International Management Institute (IMI), a New Delhi-based B-school, will invest Rs 50-crore in setting up its campus on 15.8 acres of land at Gothpatna on the outskirts of the city.
… Initially, IMI-Bhubaneswar would have an intake of 60 students for the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme which will be introduced from July 2010.
To start with, there would be 10 full-time faculty members besides visiting faculty for the maiden PGDM batch of IMI-Bhubaneswar. IMI-Bhubaneswar would have a maximum student intake of 500 and a pool of 50 full-time faculty members once it is fully commissioned after four years. Addressing media persons here, C S Venkata Ratnam, director, IMI-New Delhi said, “We will commence our first PGDM programme at the Bhubaneswar campus from July 2010. The campus will be fully residential with a separate hostel for working executives.”
Students will have to pay around Rs 10 lakh for pursuing the full-time management programme which includes the cost of the hostel. Apart from PGDM programme, the Bhubaneswar campus of IMI would offer executive PGDM programme for working executives. Plans are also afoot to introduce a porgramme in services marketing.
Following is an excerpt from a report in Economic Times.
: Commemorating its 30th anniversary during 2010-2011, the International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, has announced the launch of its second campus at Bhubaneshwar in Orissa. Located at the IDCO Institutional area in Gothapatna, Bhubaneshwar, adjacent to IIIT, Bhubaneshwar and NALCO Research Centre, the new campus is spread over 16 acres of land.
Speaking on the occasion, C.S. Venkata Ratnam, director, IMI New Delhi, said, “Subject to getting approval from AICTE, we will commence the first PGDM program in July-Aug 2010.” The campus will be fully residential and function as an autonomous business school. “Besides PGDM programs, IMI Bhubaneshwar will also have centers for research and executive education,” he further added.
… The new campus will also focus on entrepreneurship development and applied research on public policy into socio-economic issues and best practices in management and governance.
Prof N C Patnaik, IMI, said “We plan to be operational in a short span of 8 months, and the building will reflect the Architecture of Orissa.”
IMI Delhi is among the top business schools in India. I hope the Bhubaneswar campus will achieve similar or greater success.
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1. Amit Pasayat | November 14th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Excellent, thank you Sir for sharing all this information.I have now lost track of how many different educational instititute are palnned for Odisha. I sincerely hope all of this materialise soon.
2. pooja | November 15th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
wow……thats great…another institute that is also towords bhubaneswar…..naveen patnaik is great……we are now hopeless and also we are not expecting any thing from this naveen patnaik or we can say mr pyari babu..who is the actual cm so according to our people…now we are planning for a separate state ……kosal
3. Chitta Baral | November 15th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
It is one thing to want to have other locations to develop further. It is another to be anti-Bhubaneswar or be jealous of Bhubaneswar. Since development of Orissa also includes development of Bhubaneswar (which by the way is not as developed as most capitals of India), I am not going to allow blatant anti-Bhubaneswar comments any more. The above is the last one just to showcase what I don’t want. I understand the frustration of people of many areas but that frustration should be channeled to plans and efforts to improve those areas and not on Bhubaneswar-bashing.
Development plans and efforts for other areas are most welcome. But comments like the above are no longer going to be allowed.
4. Chitta Baral | November 15th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
One of the purpose of this site is to showcase what developments are happening in Orissa, and that includes Bhubaneswar. This compilation here has helped people outside of Orissa, many of whom think Orissa to be a poverty stricken backward state with nothing worth beyond some temples and some minerals to loot, to revise their opinion and notice that Orissa indeed is developing in the knowledge frontier. Hence, even though I do feel for some people who are not happy about the state of affairs of some other parts, I can not stop mentioning about developments in Bhubaneswar as that is also part of Orissa.
Yes, Bhubaneswar is developing much more than the other areas and other areas need to develop further; so lets works towards that. But while working towards that we need to be careful of not developing an anti-Bhubaneswar bent of mind. We must feel happy that our capital is developing at a good pace. Again, other areas need to develop too, but one must not ignore that development of Bhubaneswar also has positive effects on the other parts.
In http://orissa2020.org I have put my thoughts on HR development of all parts of Orissa. Lets try to pursue something like that together.
5. Kanhu | November 16th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Thanks Chitta Sir for the above comments and clarification. Bhubaneswar is the captal city of orissa and compared to other capitals is very less developed. If the development is happenning in bhubaneswar nowdays, any well wisher of orissa should be happy about it…after all it’s in orissa and its development means orissa’s development as well. I have noticed some people just comment for the sake of commenting and do bashing bhubaneswar…I understand the conern of not getting developments in other regions but there should be a proper way for it..it should be constructive rather than just bhubaneswar bashing and blaming naveen patnaik for everything. sometimes its more driven by business than any thing else but people still blame. we in orissa are laggards because of this nature of leg pulling ..actually we are infamous for this..instead of being feeling good about of ateast something happenning in bbsr n orissa we just feel jealous because I m from a different region..and if I do not get this whole of orissa should not get this..this attitude must go if we want to progress..else orissa still will have a dark future..
6. Amit Pasayat | November 18th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
IMI’s ranking in business magazines
for the year 2008
• Ranked 6th among Top Private Business Schools in the country by Outlook (September 29, 2008)
• Ranked 5th among Top Private Business Schools in the country by Mint and C-fore (Mint newspaper, September 12, 2008)
• Ranked A+ among Top Business Schools by Indian Management Magazine (Journal of the AIMA, September, 2008)
• Ranked 14th among Top Business Schools in the country by Business India Survey 2008 (Business India Magazine, October 19, 2008)
• Ranked 8th among B-Schools in India by CNBC TV 18 Survey (November 08, 2008)
Ranked 10th among Top 10 Institutes in Employers Perception by Businessworld B School Almanac 2008
7. dev | January 31st, 2010 at 5:05 pm
well thats gr8 to see that Bhubaneswar is shining….once only known for bein a temple city now it has evolved n tranformed to b a modern technical n educational hub which is very good.. the pace to grow is bit slow as compared to other states but as the initiatives r being taken n aft looking at outside corporate ethusiasm towards investing in Orissa its not ar when Bhubaneswar will evolve as a major metroolitan city of India.