Indian Institute of Management Lucknow

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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Established: 1984
Director: Dr. Devi Singh
Staff: 100
Students: 600
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus: Urban, 200 acres (0.81 km2)
Website: www.iiml.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (also referred to as IIM Lucknow or IIML), was established in 1984, by the Government of India, as a national level school of excellence in management science. It was the fourth Indian Institute of Management to be established in India after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, and IIM Bangalore. It is situated at the outskirts of the historic and culturally rich city of Lucknow.

It is considered one of the premiere B schools in India. Over 170,000 people apply for IIML through the Common Aptitude Test each year for roughly 300 seats[citation needed].

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[edit] Campus

The Institute has state-of-the-art computing and class-room facilities, supported by an extensive library of books, journals, films, and databases. IIML academic programmes are fully residential. The serene and pollution free campus is well equipped to meet all the essential requirements of its residents. The campus is spread across 200 acres (0.81 km2) located on the outskirts of Lucknow off the Lucknow-Sitapur road. IIML also has a satellite campus, located at NOIDA, developed primarily for executive education.

The campus has 14 hostels, consisting of all single-seater rooms with Wi-Fi, LAN and cooler facilities, in the respective rooms. The hostels also have a common tv room, tt tables and a snooker table.

There is also one centrally located football field, two tennis courts, one basketball court, number of badminton courts including one indoor court and a gym.

Arjun Rath at IIM Lucknow entrance

IIM Lucknow campus

Campus in the evening

[edit] Students

The college runs two full time residential programmes 1.Post Graduate Programme in Management(PGPM) & 2.Post Graduate Programme in Agri Business Management (PGPABM). A substantive number (about 50% of the batch) of students come with prior work experience. More than 80% of students are from engineering background coming mainly from premier engineering colleges of India like IITs, NITs, DCE, NSIT, BITS, MGIT etc. However, the batch of 2008-10 has seen a markedly different approach to selection, with the average work-ex of around 3 years. The student background is also varied, with people coming from equity research, investment banking, doctors, army men, entrepreneurs, media houses, and of course a large number from the IT sector background , as its students.

[edit] Student Activities

At the core of student Activities is "The Students' Council", elected student body which plans and implements students' activities. Various committees and clubs carry out all the student related activities inside and outside the campus. Committees include Placecom, Manfest, Index, Alcom, Media Relations (MRC), Industry Interaction (IIC), Bhavishya: The Social Initiatives Group, Team Synapse, Consulting Club, PRISM-The Marketing Cell, Innovision, Student Exchange Committee Members (STEX), SIGFI(Special Interest Group in Finance), OIG(Operations Interest Group), Abhiyan-The Entrepreneurship Cell, Oculus

Besides committees there are three different clubs namely 3.4 (The college band), Choreo Club, Credence Capital- Student run mutual funds.

[edit] Library

The state of art library has a collection of about 35,000 books, 600 periodicals,900 E-Journals in different areas of management embracing social, political and economic environment. It remains open round-the-clock, all days of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays except for gazetted holidays.

[edit] Pedagogy

The institute follows a mixed pedagogy, imbibing both theory and cases in the curriculum.

[edit] Noted Alumni

  • KV Pratap - Chief Economic Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
  • Kamal Gianchandani - Director, Emerging Markets,Credit Derivatives,Citigroup HK
  • Baburaj Pillai - Managing Director, Arohi Asset Management, Singapore
  • Shashank Sinha - President, Sara Lee, Singapore & Malaysia
  • Amit Banati - CFO, Cadburys Schweppes, Asia Pacific
  • Shailesh Jejurikar - Marketing Head, P&G, Australasia & India
  • Dhimant Shah - Director, Emerging Markets Credit Derivates, Citigroup, HK
  • Vandita Pant - Executive Director, Head of Strategy, Global Markets, ABN Amro Bank, London
  • Shanmughan Manjunath
  • Tarun Tripathi (Class of 2002) - Head, Marketing and External communication, Yash Raj Films
  • Neeraj Gambhir (Class of 1995) – Managing Director & Head of Structured Finance and High Grade Credit - India, Lehman Brothers
  • Anjali Mullatti (Class of 1993) – Co-Founder, Catalyst Consulting
  • Vipul Sant (Class of 1989) – Director, License Compliance, Microsoft India
  • Prabhat Awasthi (Class of 1994) - Head, Equities & Research, Lehman Brothers
  • Jatin Suryawanshi (Class of 1994)- Head, US Algorithmic Trading, UBS Investment Bank, New York
  • Gaurav Sabnis (Class of 2004)- Famous Indian blogger (see The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) advertising controversy
  • Rahul Singh (Class of 1995) - Director, India Asia-Pacific Equity Research, Citigroup
  • Rakesh Jha, Deputy CFO, ICICI Bank, India

[edit] External links

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