Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell
Situated at the outskirts of the historic and culturally rich city of Lucknow, the Indian Institute of Management (IIML), was established in 1984, by the Government of India, as a national level school of excellence in management science. IIML is also entering into collaborative arrangements with leading business schools and research centers in India, Europe, Canada, South and Southeast Asia. The institute has got one more campus at Noida. The NOIDA Campus is being developed as a centre of excellence in the area of executive education.
The various programmes at IIM Lucknow is as given under:
This program is a two year, full time, residential program. The students meeting the program requirements are awarded the Post Graduate Diploma in Management. Courses are redesigned every year with feedback from the industry. New courses are introduced at an impressive rate each year. The PGP also prepares the students to take up multiple responsibilities and energizes them for the fast-track performance expected of them. The curriculum, by any standards, is rigorous. Assignments, live and simulated projects, periodic evaluations and demanding academic schedules ensure that the student develops skills in managing time and working efficiently and effectively.
The two-year Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management is a full -time residential course designed with the specific objective of developing agribusiness leaders, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs with a vision, competence and appropriate attitude for promoting/ growing agribusiness and agro-based enterprises with a strong international orientation.
Minimum 3 years of Bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized University in India or abroad with 50% marks is required for applying for PGP programs. Please visit the CAT website www.catiim.in for more details. For the FPM program, you need a Masters’ degree or its equivalent in any discipline with minimum 55% aggregate marks OR a Bachelors Degree in Engineering with 60% marks or equivalent grade point average. The cut-off dates are the same as CAT cut-off dates.
IIM Lucknow accepts CAT scores for short listing the Candidates for the GD/PI round for both the PGP and PGP-ABM programmes. For the FPM program, candidates who fulfill the eligibility criteria stated above are required to take Common Admission Test (CAT) held by the IIMs. Alternatively, those who have qualified GATE, GRE, GMAT and JRF (UGC/CSIR) examinations can also apply in the relevant area of specialization. For the IPMX program, candidates have to appear for a personal interview scheduled in 2nd or 3rd week of December. Please go through the website for more details
For 2011-13,there is a 2 stage process of selection.
Basic percentile requirement for GD/PI is given in the table below.
|
Course |
QA |
DI |
VA |
OVERALL |
|
PGP |
80 |
85 |
85 |
90 |
|
PGP ABM |
75 |
75 |
75 |
85 |
In order to identify the right candidates for stage 1, basic weightage is given on different components. The total marks are 50. The distribution is shown below.
|
Aggregate CAT-10 |
37.5 |
|
Class 10 marks |
2.5 |
|
Class 12 marks |
2.5 |
|
Graduation marks |
2.5 |
|
Experience Profile |
2.5 |
|
Graduation Profile |
2.5 |
|
TOTAL |
50 |
Stage -2 involves assessment of the candidate by an interview panel which conducts a written ability test, GD and Interview. The total marks are 50. The distribution of marks for each component is given below
|
Written ability test |
10 |
|
GD |
10 |
|
Interview |
5 |
|
Quality of work experience |
25 |
|
TOTAL |
50 |
Minimum requirement of marks in the Interview is 7.5 out of 25. Final selection will be based on combined scores in Stage-1 and Stage-2.
At present, the student strength of the institute is 370, which it plans to increase up to 420 for 2011-1
The total fees will be 10 lacs for the 2011-13 batch
The batch of 366 students (99 more than those graduating in 2009), a total of 206 companies made offers making it the largest placement process this year across the IIMs in terms of the number of candidates placed successfully. These companies made a total of 528 offers. Of the total offers made, 70 were pre-placement offers, 213 lateral offers for higher entry placement, and 245 made during the final placement week. Moreover, 53 companies were first time recruiters at IIM-L.
The key sectors in which the recruitment took place were Consulting, Finance, Sales and Marketing, IT and Telecom industry. The Consulting sector saw a maximum of 82 offers.
For more details about, please visit the official website of IIM Lucknow:
www.iiml.ac.in.
Disclaimer: The above data is only suggestive in nature and may differ from the data. Roots Education cannot be held responsible for any decision taken by the candidate on the basis of the above information.
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