Added: 12/01/2005 |
Bangalore business school in India ? earning MBA in the "garden city"Bangalore, located at an elevation of some thousand meters, is called a "garden city" and has a relatively mild summer and a pleasant winter. Despite the romantic nickname, Bangalore is one of India's most dynamic cities. To begin with, it is located in the center of India's software and high tech research and manufacturing base. It also hosts manifold industries -- banking, manufacturing, services and research. Moreover, Bangalore can boast of having a number of private, public, joint ventures and multinational corporations (such as TI, Motorola, Alcatel, NEC, etc.).
There is no wonder it is the home to India Institute of Management, a top MBA institute of management and a business school in India, which were established to enlarge management resources and a talent to satisfy the needs of a large technology base, emerging in the early 1970s.
The IIMB's (India Institute of Management in Bangalore) flagship program is a two-year full time Post Graduate Program in Management, equivalent to the MBA, with around two hundred students, admitted each year. The Fellow (Doctoral) Program in Management (FPM) is also highly rated and the IIMB alumni occupy senior managerial and academic positions all over the world.
In addition to the above mentioned programs, IIMB offers several management programs, which include:
- The Post Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management (PGSEM), initiated in 1998. The program is aimed at educating managers, working in the software and information technology industries;
- The International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM). It is an international combined executive education program, jointly offered by IIMB with McGill University, Lancaster University and a consortium of Japanese universities. The program is universally acknowledged as a main innovation in executive education.
Bangalore business school in India possesses adequate industry connections, vital for a business school to create all-rounded corporate leaders, let alone a faculty, a curriculum, a student body and infrastructure.
Various student activities are organized on the campus, focused in addition to studies on the personality enrichment, which allows future leaders to show their worth. Despite usual meetings of business leaders and seminars conducted by the FII (Forum of Industrial Interaction), IIMB also offers its students opportunities in various clubs. These embrace ICON - a consulting club, which initiates live consulting projects for the students, Vikasana - a students' social service club, MARS - a retailing club that manages a real store on campus, which may boast to have increased its turnover six times from half a million to about three million rupees.
Bangalore business school in India has one of the best student exchange programs in the country; the partner schools contain NYU Stern, GSB Chicago, Anderson (UCLA) and WHU Germany. Exchange students can be accommodated in the students' hostel at the Institute on request. Apart from conveniences, the life on the campus incites a constant interaction with regular MBA students, who are all required to stay at the hostel. When you are in a new place and country, it proves to be very beneficial. Every exchange student, coming to Bangalore business school in India, has a unique experience being a part of the student community and all his activities.
The last but not least is the so called "Buddy program", when a student volunteer from IIMB is assigned to each exchange student as a 'buddy'. It helps exchange students go over the difficulties in a new place with the relative ease. The visiting students find the students at Bangalore business school in India to be very friendly and helpful.
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