IIPM ranked No 1 B-School in India

Extenuating its spirited campaign ‘Dare To Think Beyond the IIMs’, the Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) surpassed the performance of all the IIMs to be rated as the No 1 business school in India for the extensive ‘Global Exposure’ it provides to its students, followed by IIM (A) and IIM (B) at rank 2 and rank 3 respectively. The ranking was conducted by ‘Zee Business Best B School Survey’, a first of its kind on Indian television in association with leading international research firm Synovate. IIPM also achieved Rank 7 (ahead of 2 IIMs) as the Best B School overall, Rank 8 for Best Industry Interface, Rank 9 for Best Placements (ahead of 1 of the IIMs) and Rank 9 for Best Course Content.

IIPM’s rank as the No 1 in the B School with best global exposure category only justifies its unique and biggest such initiative it undertakes for its students not just in India but anywhere in the world! As part of its Global Outreach Program (GOP), professors from top Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford, London School of Economics, Oxford etc visit IIPM to conduct joint workshops with IIPM faculty for Indian corporate fraternity and teach IIPM students. World renowned gurus like Philip Kotler, Zig Zigler, Stephen Covey have also taken exclusive sessions with IIPM students in India.

Under the aegis of IIPM’s Global Opportunities & Threat Analysis (GOTA) program, all of IIPM’s more than 3000 students visit Europe or America or other developed nations for 2-3 weeks to get first hand international exposure of how the best in the world work. They visited hundreds of world organizations like The World Bank, ILO, United Nations, WTO, big corporations like Nestle, Honda, IBM, BMW, FIAT, Citigroup, and universities like IMD and many more in the recent past.

Students from top international universities also visit IIPM to undertake a specialization semester. This is the Global Students Exchange Program (GSEP). In 2007-08 twelve international institutions from France, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Austria and Germany sent their students to study a module/ trimester at IIPM.

IIPM’s international placements this year have been only second to IIMs. While IIMs placed 249 of its students abroad this year, IIPM placed 165 followed by ISB with 111. The next best international placement figure by any other b did not touch even 35!

While IIPM believes that it is by far the best B School in the country that is constantly setting new benchmarks in management education, the time is not far when IIPM will surpass all the IIMs in all the rankings.

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IIPM makes business education truly global

THERE is excitement in the air and there seems to be no stopping IIPM from taking giant strides in globalising Indian business education. This year IIPM has placed a record 2,670 students through campus recruitment and the number keeps increasing. The big news, however, is that international placements have jumped to 165 this year. This figure is second only to the best in the country. An achievement, but the institute is not sitting quietly on its laurels. Through curriculum and global networks, it hopes to place many more students internationally in the years to come. `Next year we hope to have the highest international placements in India,’’ says a spokesperson.

International placement is only a part of IIPM’s global initiatives. Sources say that IIPM is in the process of launching an international programme in August (details are not available because of non-disclosure agreements).

IIPM is also forging a number of international tie-ups with leading B-Schools and organisations across the globe, for their Global Internship Programme called GOTA. The internship programme is a mandatory component of IIPM’s curriculum and all students get a chance to travel overseas to experience first-hand how world class organisations work.

Organisations that have participated in this programme in the past include Nestle, Credit Suisse, IMD, UNCTAD, Michael Page, World Bank, Novartis, WTO, Honda Japan, Suzuki, ING, Emirates Bank, Amas Bank, Sulzer, among others.

Indranil Das (dean-Global Alliances) says, `this is a unique concept, and will go a long way in changing the face of business education in India. We are committed to deliver the best practices in education to all our students.”

Apart from this, as a part of its global thrust, IIPM is also ensuring that students enjoy a global exposure on the campus in India. Professors such as Philip Kotler of Kelloggs School of Business, Gita Gopinath of University of Chicago Graduate Business School, Akash Deep of Harvard University Sunil Gupta of Columbia Business School, Prof. Tom Kirchmaier of London School of Economics, Prof Rick Aubry of Stanford University, Prof Ari Ginsberg of NYU STERN, Leigh Hafrey of MIT Sloan School of Management, Andre Laurent of INSEAD and Johannes Pennings of the Wharton School have visited IIPM and interacted with students and industry leaders in the past few years.

While these professors came to deliver lectures on specific topics, professors from NUS, Singapore (ranked among the top three B-schools in Asia) are delivering a seven-week intensive course on Investment Banking (IB) at IIPM. The course aims to provide IIPM students an edge when it comes to placements in the Investment Banking sector next year. Prasoon S Majumdar, all India dean-academics says, “with this programme, our students would have an advantage in the investment banking sector, they can hit the ground running while other MBA candidates would have to still go through training on the job for the first few months.’’ Thetop100 students selected from all IIPM branches will attend this course and get a joint certification in IB.

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IIPM hits 2,000 domestic placements

View Source After the Buddhas smile, it is time for the IIPM students to giggle. It is not only the job offers from the domestic market, but also those from the international markets, that has created a huge amount of excitement and exuberance amongst the students.

It just can’t get any bigger or fatter at the IIPM Campus Placements. Keeping up to its reputation of being one of the most revered suppliers of quality management graduates to India Inc, the institute has already set new benchmarks for itself during the ongoing placement season for the Class of 2006-08 by hitting an all-time high of around 2,000 domestic placements and 100-plus international placements. The placement season was kick-started in a grand style witnessing the presence of Satyam Computer Services, which picked up 60 students on Day 1 itself. It offered a whopping Rs 8.80 lakh per annum, the highest domestic package so far, to some of the students with reasonable experience; while the average package offered by them was a little over Rs 5 lakh per annum. The regular recruiters like HSBC Bank, Pipal Research, Evalueserve.com, Oracle, HP, ICICI Bank, Reliance ADAG, who are also a part of the most favoured recruiters at IIPM, were given preferred slots for placement, as they had a bigger shopping bag to fill than ever before. Reliance Group recruited over 100 IIPM graduates from across all the 7 centres, at a package of Rs 6.30 lakh per annum. The total number of placements as on March 18 stood at 2,014. This figure perhaps never achieved in the history of Indian institutes. The first time recruiters included Yes Bank (picked up 33 students in early January), Zee Entertainment (7), UB Group (14), among others. Euro RSCG also debuted on IIPM campus along with Colliers International and CB Richard Ellis. After the Buddha’s smile, it is time for the IIPM students to giggle. It is not only the job offers from the domestic market, but also those from the international markets, that has created a huge amount of excitement and exuberance amongst the students. They have regularly pursued various global organisations before getting some of the biggest names on campus. The list of international recruiters include Emirates Neon (picked up 29 students), Al Sharaf group (9 ), Saud Bahwan Group (9 ) amongst others. The Al Sharaf group has offered the highest international package for the current batch at Rs 21.2 lakh per annum. As on 18th March 2008 the total number of international placements at 106 and a lot more to happen still. According Arindam Chaudhuri, Hony Dean - Centre of Economic Research & Advanced Studies, “The placements this year has been magical especially at the international front. I expect this year the figure to finally touch anything between 150-200 given the fact that the investment banking specialisation at IIPM conducted by the extension arm of NUS is yet to get over. I would say that we are just getting warm up. Its next academic year IIPM will create real tremor in the placements scenario as if the current figures are anything less than earth shaking.”