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Indian Institute of Management: Kozhikode
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode was set up by the Government of India in collaboration with the State Government of Kerala as the 5th Indian Institute of Management. Being a part of IIM family of institutions, which have earned worldwide reputation for academic excellence, the Institute strives hard for maintaining international standards in all of its academic activity.
The Institute is aiming to emerge as an internationally reckoned fully integrated management institute of higher learning. It conducts the full range of academic activities in the field of management education covering research, teaching, and training, consulting and intellectual infrastructure development to help improve the management systems in the country. The Institute emphasizes on development of analytical skills and is known for its focus on global and cross-cultural issues.
The Institute seeks to achieve excellence and a leadership position in management education and to become a major learning resource center in the Asia-Pacific region.
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.
Programs offered:
1) Post Graduate Programme (PGP)
2) Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
3) Interactive Distance Learning (IDL)
4) Management Development Programmes (MDP)
5) Faculty Development Programme (FDP)
Post Graduate Programme (PGP):
The Post-graduate Programme in Management is a flagship educational programme preparing the young graduates for senior level positions in industry and other sections. The programme is of two years duration. In the first year, the students undergo 58 credit foundation courses in various functional areas, followed by 8-10 weeks of summer training in business and industrial organisations.
The second year comprises two foundation courses of 3 minimum of 45 credit elective courses. Some of courses are of 2 credits (20 class contact hours) and others of 3 credit (30 class contact hours). The students are encouraged to have 2 areas of specialisations. For specialisation a student has to take a credits each and a minimum of 5 electives (amounting to 15 credits) in the area concerned. Some students spend one term to take courses in a partner foreign institution.
http://www.iimk.ac.in/pgp/courses.htm
Fellow Programme in Management (FPM):
The FPM of IIMK aims at developing top quality researchers and faculty resources for academic institutions including IIMs, and it envisages itself as a leading source of top quality management experts and thinkers for business organizations, government and society in India and abroad.
The FPM programme of IIMK strives to incorporate the strengths of similar programmes in other IIMs while it also tries to introduce new strengths and certain innovative features in the programme. The purpose of such efforts is to overcome any weaknesses in the Fellow Programmes elsewhere and to bring out the best in the Fellows coming out of the programme.
The programme duration is normally 4 years while it can be completed any time after 3 years. If sufficient grounds exist, the tenure of a Fellow participant can be extended, with reduced rate of fellowship, upto 4½ years.
http://www.iimk.ac.in/fpm/brochure/fpmbrochure_main.htm
Interactive Distance Learning (IDL):
With the aim of helping practicing executives, who are not in a position to join its long duration residential education programmes, the Institute provides an opportunity through the Interactive Distance Learning mode.
The programmes have two components; one in which the participant has to take lessons by logging in one of the 300 nationwide network of classrooms. The other component is conducted at IIMK campus at Kozhikode.
IIMK currently offers the following executive education programmes over IDL:
• Executive Management Education Programme (eMEP)
• Executive Education Programme in Finance (eEPF)
• Executive Education Programme in Strategic Management (eEPSM)
• Executive Education Programme in Marketing (eEPM)
• Executive Education Programme in Operations Management (eEPOM)
Apart from above Executive Education Programmes, IIMK offers specialized Management Development Programmes on the IDL Platform for marketting executives.
Currently, following programmes are offered.
• Software Project Management
Management Development Programmes (MDP):
The institute has embarked upon a series of innovative high impact training programmes meeting the emerging requirements of industry. The programmes lay greater emphasis on practical application while providing sound conceptual foundation in the areas concerned. The programmes range from three to six day’s duration. The institute also entertains requests from business, industry and other organisations/ government departments to train their officers/executives by designing and conducting customised programmes. These programmes are generally conducted at the campus itself, which allow the participants to benefit from interaction with larger number of core and visiting/adjunct facility of the institute, its highly developed library facilities and campus wide network facilities.
www.iimk.ac.in/mdp08/index.php
Faculty Development Programmes (FDP):
http://www.iimk.ac.in/fdp08/index.php
Sponsored FDP Programmes
IIMK also conducts Custom designed FDPs for the benefit of teachers from an academic institution at IIM Campus. The programme can be 3 days or 6 days duration. The total fee for a programme with 20 participants for a three day programme will be Rs 1,50,000.
Fees and Expenses:
Post Graduate Programme (PGP):
Foreign:
The annual expenses on tuition, library, computing facility, teaching materials and hostel accommodation presently total up to US$ 12,000 payable at the beginning of each academic year. All other expenses including boarding charges will be borne directly by the student.
Domestic:
Yearly expenses on tuition, library, computer, teaching material and hostel accommodation presently total up to Rs. 1,90,000 for the first year and Rs. 1,95,000 for the second year. Boarding is in addition to this.
MDP and FDP:
The fee is to be paid in advance by Demand Draft in favour of “Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode” payable at “Calicut”. The fee covers, in addition to lodging, course materials, working lunch, and breakfast and dinner for residential participants.
Campus:
HOSTELS:
The institute has excellent accommodation facilities for the students inside the campus. The classrooms, computer centre, canteen, and all other facilities are within walking distance of the hostel. Every student has been provided individual rooms.
One television and a washing machine is provided in every hostel. Facilities for making STD/ISD calls are located within the hostel itself. The hostels also has facilities for various sports like table tennis, badminton, carrom and chess.
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.
Campus Network
All the buildings in the campus are interconnected through a 6 core SMF Gigabit Fiber Optic backbone. The connectivity to Desktops is using 4 pair ECAT 5 UTP cable ensuring a dedicated 100Mbps bandwidth at desktop level. The computer centre acts as the main hub of the network and hosts a layer 3 backbone switch The workgroup switches are located in the respective buildings. All the hostel rooms are also connected to the campus LAN.
Information technology in the academic activities at IIMK includes different computers and peripheral devices, a local area network, the global information network and the software and applications that make it possible to utilize these resources. These facilities and services have regularly been improved.
Sports Facilities
The students can avail the various sports facilities- both indoor and outdoor available at IIM K campus and at the NIT Calicut campus which is situated at a distance of 6 Kms from IIMK. These facilities include:
Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Basketball, Swimming
Lawn Tennis, Gymnasium, Caroms
Library:
A fully automated modern Library & Information Centre (LIC) is on its way to becoming an outstanding learning resource centre catering to the ever growing and uncompromising information and intellectual requirements of the students, faculty, and researchers.
A balanced programme on the development of the collection of hard copy, audio/video, CD-ROM, and other electronic forms of documents is being followed. The LIC has one of the finest collections of latest management publications.
Faculty:
The Institute faculty base comprises of guest, adjunct, visiting and regular faculty. Experienced guest faculty are usually drawn from industry to provide critical insights on a particular topic/issue in a course or a programme. The core strength of the faculty is formed by regular faculty and a set of committed adjunct faculty (who conduct one or more courses) or visiting faculty (who come for a period ranging from three months to two years), who provide specialised support.
A salient and outstanding feature of the faculty of the institute is that every faculty engages in Research, Teaching in Post Graduate Programme, Interactive Distance Learning Programmes Faculty Development Programmes, and conducts one or more Management Development Programmes every year. Faculty members also actively associate in industry interaction seminars and National/ International Conferences.
http://www.iimk.ac.in/faculties/facultyarea.htm
Ranking:
India Today Ranking 2007 #15
Economic Times Business school ranking #7
Placement and Recruiters:
Even as declaring record breaking placements has become clichéd, the 10th PGP batch at IIM Kozhikode had good cause to be proud of its performance in Placements 2008. Two lively and fulfilling years of hard effort that had culminated in Corporate India reposing faith in their abilities to lead, inspire and make their mark in their chosen field. The 177 participating students got a total of 402 offers from 105 participating Indian and International recruiters.
The average domestic salary being offered this year around to IIMK students stands at Rs 14.83 lakh, an increase of 26% over the previous year. The highest domestic salary stood at Rs 29 lakh, which was offered by an Indian Investment Bank. 105 companies recruited from IIMK in Placements 2008, of these 45 were new recruiters
Alumni:
The Alumni Committee of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode is proud to annouce the launch of a new Alumni Website.
The site aims to bring together the Alumni of IIM Kozhikode under one single platform.
http://alumni.iimklive.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
May 21, 2009 at 9:55 am
Hi …. IIMK has launched its IDL course of ePGP which is a 2yr MBA for working class can be done from satellite network of Hughes.
Does anyone know about the quality of the course and its worthiness.
Pls help….
Ramandeep