Great Lakes Gurgaon News & Events ,

Great Lakes opens its PGDM admissions for the academic year 2025-27 August, Chennai & Gurgaon:

 September 23, 2024: Great Lakes Institute of Management is ranked 34 among the top business schools in the Management category by NIRF, with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon. The Institute has opened admissions for the PG Diploma in Management (PGDM) with a 2-year full-time course for the academic year 2025-27. Great Lakes Institute of Management offers the course to fresh graduates and young professionals with up to 3 years of work experience.

It leverages a global faculty pool, peer learning among the high potential graduates, extensive industry networking, and experiential learning. The programme is AICTE approved and accredited by AMBA (UK) and NBA, and recognized by AIU.

Admissions for the full-time one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) for the academic year 2025-26 opened on July 31, 2024.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA for PGDM 2025-27:

• Applicants with a valid GMAT, CAT or XAT score of the year applying for or the previous year are accepted.
• Candidates with 0-3 years of experience (by June 30, 2025) are eligible to apply for 2-year PGDM.
• Candidates with 2-10 years of work experience (by April 30, 2025) are eligible to apply for a 1-year PGDM course.

Speaking on the commencement of the admission process, Mr. Gautam Lakhamraju, COO and Admissions Director, of Great Lakes Institute of Management said, “Great Lakes had an exceptional year with record placement and admission outcomes last year. The PGDM Class of 2024 witnessed impressive placements, with the highest annual CTC reaching INR 37 lakhs, with 48 students being offered PPO/PPIs post their summer internships.

The PGDM is a program of choice among freshers and young professionals. In addition to gender and educational diversity, we are now enhancing the professional diversity among candidates. We are inviting candidates with up to 3 years of work experience to apply and enrol for the program. As we commence this year’s admissions process, we are quite optimistic that we will have a stellar response this year as well.”

Great Lakes to accept NMAT Scores for the One Year MBA Program. Application Deadline on Dec 1, 2023.

November 7, 2023: Admissions are now being accepted for the full-time one-year Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) and two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) at Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of the top B-schools in the nation with campuses in Chennai and Gurgaon, starting in the academic year 2024–2025. The institute has also declared that, in addition to CAT 2022/23, XAT 2023/24, and GMAT taken after January 1, 2021, it will accept NMAT scores (2022 onward) for the PGPM.  

The GMAT, CAT, and XAT will still be accepted by the PGDM.  While the PGDM welcomes students with 0–3 years of experience, the PGPM requires candidates to have at least 2 years of experience.

The application Deadline (Cycle 1) for both the programs is 1^st Dec 2023.

Great Lakes is rated in Super League 2 by Business Standard (Chennai Campus), 9th by Business India in Top Indian B-Schools, 31st among Top B-schools by NIRF under Ministry of HRD, and 3rd by Outlook in Top Standalone Institutions. Furthermore, Great Lakes is the youngest Indian business school to be accredited by the esteemed AMBA. Additionally, the institute collaborates with prestigious international universities and B-schools, such Cornell, Bordeaux, SKEMA, Frankfurt, Chicago Booth, and IÉSEG, to mention a few. 

“Great Lakes has done exceptionally well over the last year with record placement and admission outcomes. We also saw a great response from aspirants last year with an 18% increase in overall full-time program applications, which are at an all-time high. This allows us to increase the diversity of our student base across backgrounds and select deserving students who will add value to the peer group experience. As a long-standing member institution of GMAC and having witnessed the growth, quality and accessibility of the exam, this year we have decided to additionally consider the NMAT exam as one of the qualifying exams for the applying to our one-year PGPM. Another milestone we are excited about is to get back to physical interview process for the PGPM which has been online since the start of the pandemic.” stated Gautam Lakhamraju, Admissions Director & COO, Great Lakes Institute of Management, in reference to the admissions process.