Indian Institute of Management Indore

Indian Institute of Management Indore is a state funded management institute in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Instituted in 1998, IIM Indore is the sixth addition to the IIM family. IIM Lucknow awards only diplomas, and not degrees.

History

IIM Indore which came into existence in 1998, was established as the sixth Indian Institute of Management after IIM Calcutta (1961), IIM Ahmedabad (1963), IIM Bangalore (1972), IIM Lucknow (1984) and IIM Kozhikode (1996). The institute was the youngest among IIMs till 2008, when IIM Shillong was instituted.

The old temporary campus was located in Rajendranagar in Indore till 2002, when the institute moved to its current state of the art campus situated at Rau on the Rau-Pithampur road close to the Pithampur Special Economic Zone.

Admissions

The admissions to IIM Indore PGP take place through the Common Admission Test conducted by the IIMs and for the EPGP through the Graduate Management Admission Test conducted by Graduate Management Admission Council, USA. Based on the performance in CAT, each institute independently shortlists prospective candidates and conducts group discussions and personal interviews. The number of aspirants taking the test has been increasing every year, with more than 270,000 sitting for CAT-2008 to compete for around 1600 seats in the IIMs. The GMAT similarly is the test used by the leading schools in the world such as Harvard, Stanford and Wharton for its...
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