IIM Kozhikode concludes admission with a diverse PGP batch

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode has admitted 52% female students in its latest batch for post graduate programme for the upcoming academic year (2020-21) which has a total of 492 students.
This batch has 40% of the students from various non-engineering disciplines, such as architecture, arts & sciences, commerce, management and medicine.

While students with professional degrees and certifications, such as, CA, CS and CFA constitute as much as 10% of the incoming students. Over 65% of the students have some degree of work experience in various industry categories, such as, automobile, banking, durable goods, engineering, FMCG, Information Technology, pharmaceutical etc.

The class of 2022 will also be a culturally diverse one with students from different parts of the country – Northern India (35%), Southern India (28.4%), Western India (14.8%), Eastern India (13.41%), Central India (5.69%) and North Eastern India (2.03%), stated the institute in a release.

“IIMK began its unsurpassed journey of significantly contributing to the growing trend of women leaders from 2010. There has been a steady rise to our commitment to ensuring gender diversity in this past decade and the journey towards creating equal opportunities in society & business, the empowerment & advancement of women is fulfilling for an Institute like IIMK," said its director, Debashis Chatterjee.

IIMK also announced the admission of students to two of its new and unique programmes - MBA in Liberal Studies & Management, PGP in Finance with a strength of 40 and 42 students respectively. The IIM has also taken the classes online in the new academic year (2020-21).

The current batch (2019-2021) of IIMK’s flagship program (PGP) is set to complete its third term classes and exams online, from July 1 onwards.

As for the new batches (2020-2022), students will attend first term classes at IIMK virtually from August 12. The institute will also be conducting a virtual orientation session for the new inductees of its flagship programme before the commencement of the classes.