IIM Indore receives international accreditation for four programmes

IIM Indore

The Indian Institute of Management Indore has received its first international accreditation in not one but four of its programmes.

The prestigious institute received accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA, a UK-based accreditation agency), for four of its full-time programmes – Two Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (both at Indore and Mumbai), One Year Full Time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) and Five Year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM, 4th and 5th Year).

IIM Indore is now among the few B-Schools accredited by AMBA in India, and the fourth IIM in the country receiving this prestigious accreditation.

In the short span of 20 years, IIM Indore has been an innovator, being the only IIM to offer a five year integrated programme in management, and Post Graduate Programme and week-end Post Graduate Programme for Working Executives in Mumbai, and the first IIM to offer a doctoral programme in Management for working professionals.

Congratulating faculty, staff, students, alumni and other stakeholders of IIM Indore, Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore said, “this accred is an inporant milestone for us because one of our key objectives is to maintain world class academic standards and international accreditation is an important affirmation of this achievement. Going forward, IIM Indore hopes to build on the strengths we have already demonstrated.”

IIM has the largest number of students on an IIM campus, more than 1600 and also runs one of the widest portfolio of management education programmes.

Professor Krishnan also shared the plan to foray further in the area of entrepreneurship. ”We plan to place our focus on entrepreneurship and we plan to start a separate entrepreneurship concentration in our PGP programme”, he said.