Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is on a high growth trajectory today, offering widest range of academic programmes in the field of management education.
Starting in 1997 with a batch of 42 students in its Postgraduate Programme (PGP) , it increased PGP intake to 120 in 2003, 180 in 2005 and to 261 in 2008, thus making it the fastest growing management school in the country to reach that landmark. This was done keeping the quality of the programme high, as the Institute continued to maintain its sound placement record, ranking among the top 5 institutes in the country in 2008.
IIMK pioneered Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) for working executives in India . Starting with 300 class contact hrs. in 2001-02, the year-long Executive Management Education Programme is today the richest one available in the country having 450 class contact hours. With the launch of 4 new 6-month long modular educational programmes in Strategic Management, Finance, Marketing and Operations Management areas, the IDL platform offers 1350 contact hours of long duration programmes today.
The training activity has grown after the Institute moved to its new campus in January 2003. The number of programmes increased from 8 in 2003-04 to 26 in 2007-08, the number of participant days went up from 520 to over 5000. The training activity is expected to have rapid growth with the latest 64 room executive hostel now under completion and the construction of a modern 200 bed management development complex to be completed in in 2010-11.
The Institute is today leader in Faculty Development Programmes (FDP), conducting largest number of programmes (18) totaling 20 weeks in 2008-09, and is the major QIP (Quality Improvement Programme) Centre of the All Indian Council of Technical Education, in the field of management education.
The Institute started its Fellow (Doctoral) Programme in Management in 2007 to complete full range of educational services expected from an Institution of higher learning. The Institute is also taking new initiative to give impetus to the post-doctoral research activities in the management field, dedicating over 30000 sq. ft. library space for it, and creating 300 capacity boarding and lodging facilities in summers, for the post doctoral research scholars, having interest in specified area.
The institute facilitates sharing of knowledge and meeting of minds, through its National and International Conferences that it holds on a regular basis. It has conducted 15 conferences in the last 5 years and during 2008-09 sessions, 5 more conferences are to be held.
The Institute has a set of highly qualified and experienced faculty. It is backed up by a large number of committed adjunct and visiting faculty from Industry and leading management institutes. Some visiting faculty members from foreign institutions complement the pool. All the fulltime faculty members carryout research studies in diverse fields of management.
The Institute has a strong International Exchange Programme for students and faculty with several leading Management Institutes in EU and ASEAN countries like SDA, Bacconi, Jonkoping, Sweden, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, ESCAP-EAP, France; University of Queensland, Austria, Victoria University of Wellington, Newzealand etc.
The Institute has alliances to further its contribution to the field of management education and research. It is an active member of Strategic Management Forum, to organize Seminar/Conferences and conduct management teacher's programme. Leading Management Institutions like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore and Lucknow alongwith MDI, Gurgaon, XLRI, Jamshedpur and IIFT, New Delhi join hands to conduct week long faculty development programme on various subjects in the field of Strategic Management.
Spread over about 100 acres of land, the Institute is situated on two hillocks in Kunnamangalam Area of ancient city of Calicut in Kerala, is one of the most picturesque oxy-rich campuses in the country. The world class infrastructure including air-conditioned classrooms, guest care areas and LAN/WAN connectivity enables IIMK to offer a life time experience to a visitor. Managed by a dedicated regular administrative staff of 36, it is one of the most efficient Institutions in the country, which knows how to keep balance sheet green and keep all the stakeholders happy. These details are retrieved from www.iimk.ac.in
Mission & Vision
Vision
The Institute seeks to achieve excellence and a leadership position in management education and to become a major learning resource centre in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mission
The Institute seeks to inculcate a spirit of lifelong learning. It aspires to strengthen the capabilities of integrating concepts with applications and values. It aims to contribute towards the development of communities of dependable, capable, caring and fair-minded people.
Placement
IIM Kozhikode has enjoyed an excellent placement record over the years.
An integral part of the PGP, summer projects are designed to provide students an opportunity to put their learning into practice, while enabling companies to use quality managers-in¬the-making for real-life short term assignments.
The final placement process for the graduating batch takes place in March. There is also a lateral placement process that provides students with substantial prior work experience lateral-entry management positions in firms.
"The Final Placement process was largely successful due to our early planning and action to get the top recruiters on board as well as target new sectors both in India and abroad." said Dr. Keyoor Purani, the Placements Chairperson. Dr. Purani also added that "as a matter of principle we have tried that students get jobs in areas of their interest. Even if this has meant taking a little longer than usual years in completing the placement process, we provided choices of companies and roles for students to begin their careers in sectors they are comfortable working in"
An International Affair
Students bagged a total of 23 international offers this year. The highest international offer was USD 120,000. Offers were made from firms in North America, Europe, South East Asia and other emerging markets. As always, students preferred the roles on offer over compensation or location. The ever increasing participation by International firms in the Final Placement process is indicative of the far reaching impact of IIMK’s brand and the global competitiveness of its graduates.
The Home Front
The highest domestic offer stood at INR 24 lakhs made by an investment bank based out of Mumbai. Though this is a decrease from what was achieved last year, IIMK managed to minimize the impact on both the average salaries and the median package. Despite the global economic slowdown, IIMK students ended the placements with an average annual salary of INR 10.61 lakhs
The entire gamut of corporate profiles were on offer, ranging from Investment Banking, Capital Budgeting, Treasury and Private Equity in Finance to Brand Management, Marketing Strategy, Advertising, Product Development in Marketing. As always, students were spoilt for choice and had the option to take the role that best suited their interests.
Impressed with the students, the corporates offered roles in key areas and senior positions. These included roles such as VP of Sales and Marketing, VP of Operations, Brand Manager India and in the case of an NGO General Manager India. This faith in IIMK students is the result of years of excellence that students displayed while on the job and this is why corporates keep coming back to recruit from IIMK year after year.
Accommodation
The institute has 10 well designed hostels capable of accommodating about 600 students. The classrooms, computer centre, canteen, and all other facilities are within walking distance of the hostel. The students are provided rooms on single occupancy basis.
TV and washing machines are provided in every hostel. Facilities for making STD/ISD calls are located within the hostels. The hostels also have facilities for various sports like table tennis, badminton, carrom, chess etc. Other facilities include gymnasium and basic medical facilities.
All the hostels rooms have been provided with a LAN connection to cater to the computing needs of the students.
Lady students are provided separate accommodation inside the campus.
Admission
The admission to the P G Programme is through a highly rigorous internationally acclaimed admission test with average selection rate of less than one in hundred candidates.
The P G Programme is highly valued by industry. Leading Indian and foreign companies visit to the Institute to participate in campus placement programme. Looking at the huge demand of the industry for the institute graduates, the intake in the P G Programme has been increased to 180 students from the academic session 2005.
