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| View all reviews for MBA in India | | Discuss Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore | The Indian Institute of management Bangalore was established in 1973 and is located in 100 acres of land on the southern edge of Bangalore on Bannerghatta Road. This gives a perfect setting for formal and informal activities. The Institute’s proximity to some of the leading corporate houses in the country gives the added advantage of integrating classroom knowledge with practical experience.
The accommodation consists of 10 hostel blocks, one executive block and the executive accommodation at the management development center. All the students are provided with accommodation on campus in well-appointed single room in the institute hostels. IIMB has one of the finest computing environments among management institutions in the country. Operating round the clock, with a large number of desktops (more than 450 PCs), world-class servers and a campus wide network with access to Internet, it represents the major attraction of IIMB. The campus network links the computing resources in the faculty offices, student labs, administrative units, student hostels, management development center and the faculty residences as well.
Three classrooms with about 30 desktops and a projection facility in each room, and a Multimedia Laboratory are other attractions of IIMB. The library has a total collection of 2.02 lakhs documents (books, back volumes, government publications, technical reports, conference proceedings, microfilms, microfiche, CD-ROM databases, maps, etc.). The library subscribes 675 print journals and 730 e-journals. Apart from this, around 4000 Full text titles are available in the databases subscribed by the library. The library also has 150 newsletters, 2200 annual reports from public and private organisations.
Final Placements for graduating students started in late 2003 with 16 organizations making 31 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) to the graduating batch students based on their summer placement performance in these organizations in 2003. HSBC Investment Bank UK, Lehman Brothers USA, Simulex, USA, KSA Technopak, Siemens and Marutiare some of th erecruiters. There were a total of 356 offers in 2008 (232 last year) from the 101 participating organisations (68 last year) for the 209 post-graduate and doctoral students (169 last year) that were placed through campus placement. Four students opted to create new enterprises or to join their family business.
Admission to the post graduate programme is through a three stage process where different abilities of the candidate are assessed. The IIM’s conduct the Common Admission Test (CAT) for the assessment of the Quantitative, Analytical, Verbal, Logical and comprehension skills. Upon clearing this stage the candidate is further tested for his/her attitude and aptitude for management education through Group Discussions (Stage 2) and Interviews (Stage 3). Admission is dependent upon various other parameters which keep changing in different years. A good score in CAT would mean a good chance for an admission as the written test is given the maximum weight age among all three stages. A three year’s bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any discipline recognized by the AICTE / AIU.
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