What It Does: The Institute provides education, training, consulting, and conducts research in management.
Mission: To be a preeminent centre of excellence, generating and imparting knowledge in management and providing socially conscious and globally relevant thought leadership.
Vision: To continue to be recognized as a premier global management school operating at the frontiers of management education and practice while creating a progressive and sustainable impact on society
Size & Presence: 110+ staff located in Ahmedabad India.
Best Known For: Worldwide, the Financial Times has ranked IIM Ahmedabad 20 in its Masters in Management Ranking 2019 (for the MBA-PGP) and 61 in its Global MBA Ranking 2020 (for MBA-PGPX Program).
The Good Bits: The case-based study system naturally increases student-teacher interaction, participative learning, group work and research projects.
The decade following independence in 1947 was witness to a surge of innovative ideas to build a fledgling independent nation into a model democratic state committed to growth with equity. The establishment of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) was the outcome of one such innovative initiative.
Led by space scientist Dr Vikram Sarabhai and an eminent industrialist and philanthropist Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai, and proactively supported by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Dr Jivraj Mehta, a group of enlightened individuals set up IIMA in 1961. This group ably wove together a coalition of five actors - the governments at the centre and the state, local industrialists, the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Business School, to establish the foundations of the Institute.
IIMA was set up as an institution that would be managed by a Society, the IIMA Society, created under the Societies Act. The Institute was to be run by a Board of Governors, constituted by the IIMA Society; the Board would have representation from all the relevant constituencies so as to reflect the multifarious needs of a developing nation. IIMA was therefore conceived as a Board-managed institution, free from the exclusive control of any one constituency. Thus, operational freedom is an integral part of the DNA of IIMA.
IIMA has been consistently ranked as the premier management school in the country by several national agencies. IIMA programmes are also ranked highly in several international rankings. In 2008, IIMA became the first management school in the country to be awarded EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development).
The Students' Personal and Career Development Centre is an on-campus counselling facility at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The Centre is committed to providing the Institute's students, faculty and staff members with a space for self-exploration and addressing of psychological concerns, leading to personal, social and professional growth. Our aim is to create a campus environment that celebrates happiness, wellbeing, and diversity. SPCDC offers community members an inclusive space for sharing, learning, living together and growing.
We work with a range of themes that include communication skills, interpersonal and social skills, time management, relationships, gender identity, coping with grief/separation, professional aspirations, career planning, learning skills, trauma, stress, psychiatric concerns and self-concept. Community members are encouraged to include mental health as a priority in their journeys as fully functional individuals.
The on-campus recruiting program at IIMA, noted for its focus on corporate customer service, provides a convenient way for you to interview our students for permanent employment and summer internships. The process has been designed jointly by the faculty, recruiters and students over the years and tries to optimise the interests of all stakeholders in the placement process.
IIMA's scope is much wider than that of a traditional business school. Its research and training activities extend to broader areas of concern to society. Some of the centres which work specifically on such concerns include: