IIM Kozhikode to welcome students to next academic session online

IIM Kozhikode to e-inaugurate its postgraduate programmes today, i.e. August 6, 2020.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode will be welcoming the students to the opening of academic session for the year 2020 today, i.e August 6. The e-inauguration will be conducted for four full-fledged programmes - the Postgraduate Programme in Management, Postgraduate Programme in Finance (inaugural batch), Postgraduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management (inaugural batch) and the Doctoral Programme in Management. Suresh Narayanan, Chairman and Managing Director, Nestle India, will be the Chief Guest on the occasion which will be presided over by Professor Debashis Chatterjee.

Apart from the Flagship course PGP in Management (Batch 24) and the Doctoral Programme in Management (Batch 14) the year 2020, the session will also witness the commencement of two new programmes - Post Graduate Programme in Finance, Post Graduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management reinforcing IIMK’s multidisciplinary approach to education as one of the leading Management Schools of the country, a statement from the IIM Kozhikode said.

The Institute has also been able to successfully achieve gender parity in this year's PGP batch, with female students constituting a healthy 52 per cent of the upcoming cohort of the 492 students strong batch. PGP 24 will also be the most academically diverse batch with 40 per cent of the batch coming from various Non-engineering disciplines, such as, Architecture, Arts & Sciences, Commerce, Management and Medicine, the statement said. 65 per cent of the students have some degree of work experience in various industry categories, such as, Automobile, Banking, Durable Goods, Engineering, FMCG, Information Technology, Pharmaceutical.

The inaugural batch of the PGP in Finance programme will consist of 41 students (37 males, 4 females) and students with a background in engineering (73 per cent).

The MBA-LSM programme inaugural batch with 62.5 per cent women in a batch of 40 students, has a balanced 52-48 per cent composition with respect to candidates from engineering and non-engineering background.

The 14th Batch of the Doctoral programme is also a gender diverse cohort that has 10 women students in a batch of 19 candidates, with 3 graduates with MBA from IIMs. A total of 8 candidates have a background in Management, 4 are from Engineering, 5 with Arts and Commerce as a background, and 1 each in sciences and architecture.

Keeping the safety of the students in mind, all the classes for the incoming batch will commence online in the coming week.

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