IIM Bodh Gaya may double seats for IPM next year: Director Vinita Sahay

Currently, the b-school offers 60 seats under its five-year integrated programme in management.

IIM Bodh Gaya Admissions 2021: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bodh Gaya launched a five-year integrated programme in management (IPM) on March 24, 2021. The step taken by the management institute is to provide an early break for MBA aspirants after Class 12. According to the institute, it has designed IPM for undergraduate students, especially from the commerce stream, interested in the management field. Under IIM Bodh Gaya IPM, students will be dedicated to undergraduate studies for the first three years. However, the latter two years will be for the core management studies.

IIM Bodh Gaya to increase seat intake under IPM

Currently, the b-school offers 60 seats under its five-year integrated programme in management. In an exclusive conversation with Shiksha.com, IIM Bodh Gaya director, Dr Vinita Sahay talked about their plans to double the seat intake by next year. The director stated that there are plans to take the seat intake to 120 after shifting to the new campus in 2022. “We feel proud that we being a young campus has three programs, i.e. PhD, MBA and IPM with the batch strength of 210, 10 and 60. 60 research scholars, we take every year, 210 MBA we take every year, 60 IPM we are taking this year. Only thing is, yes you were asking me the numbers of IPM. We may increase to 120 next year,” Sahay said. The institute conducted IIM Bodh Gaya admissions for IPM via JIPMAT. JIPMAT 2021 was conducted throughout the country with the help of the National Testing Agency (NTA).

Talking about the conduct of JIPMAT, the director said, “When we started IPM, we as a school decided that meritocracy must prevail. We must give equal opportunity to every promising student across the length and breadth of the country. That is the reason why we conducted JIPMAT as a joint admission test which was done by India's most trusted testing agency called NTA. Our whole philosophy was that every student across the length and breadth of the country should get an opportunity to do undergraduate in the high-quality premium institution in business management that too at the least inconvenience and cost. So that is the reason we promoted NTA to conduct the test across the country.”

Sahay revealed that the entrance test came out to be a huge success, “We also kept it affordable for every section of society to come and give the test. And we are extremely happy with the outcome because you know, why should a parent suffer by paying multiple fees across multiple campuses? Something as high as Rs 4000 to Rs 5000 for every test. No, it's not desirable. What is needed is that we give equal opportunity and we reduce the hassle for the student as well as a hassle for the parents and make it more accessible. That's the philosophy with which we are working and JIPMAT has been a huge success this year.”

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