Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

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Coordinates: 23°1′54.29″N, 72°32′10.09″E

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad


Established:	1961
Type:	Education and Research Institution
Director:	Prof. Samir Barua^[1]
Location:	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Campus:	Urban, 100 acres (0.40 km²)
Website:	www.iimahd.ernet.in

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad, also known as IIMA) is considered to be the premier institute of management education in India. Widely considered to be also one of the toughest MBA programmes in the world to gain admission to ^[2] as over 300,000 people apply each year for the entrance exam to get into roughly 250 places. IIMA has frequently been rated as the number one Business School not just in India but Asia as well. ^[3] ^[4]

1 History
2 Campus
3 Faculty
4 Gallery
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

IIMA was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian Industry. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, a noted scientist and industrialist and other Ahmedabad based industrialists such as Kasturbhai Lalbhai played a major role in the creation of the Institute. Professor Ravi J. Matthai, the first full-time academic director, was instrumental in fostering the famed "case culture" of IIMA and in urging the faculty and students to strive for the highest global standards. The IIMA library is named in honor of Vikram Sarabhai. The library is one of the largest management libraries in the world and is spread across 5 floors.

[edit] Campus

The campus of IIMA is dominated by the baked brick style favoured by its chief architect, the famous Louis Kahn from Philadelphia. All the structures are designed to be part of a whole and create a red-brick mini-cityscape that attracts many architecture students. Other architects who collaborated on the campus include the renowned B. V. Doshi and Anant Raje. The central brick and grass courtyard in the academic complex at IIMA is named Louis Kahn Plaza, in honour of the chief architect.

The original red-brick IIMA campus and the new concrete-look campus have 25 dorms, each of which can hold 25-44 students in single-person rooms. Each dorm has its own distinctive culture and traditions. A new campus, connected to the old campus via a pedestrian tunnel (which also serves as a photo gallery), opened in 2006. The new campus is just across the road from the old campus and houses 7 of the 25 dorms and some classrooms and seminar halls. The new campus also is the home of the new PGP-X One Year MBA Program. The accelerated program is the new one year degree offered by the institute and is for people with substantial industry experience. The placements have been extremely successful in the first year itself.

[edit] Faculty

One thing that should be mentioned with respect to IIM-A is the quality of faculty. Many of them Ph.Ds from respected universities and colleges around the world. The faculty is very much in demand in corporate India for their input.