IIM Ahmedabad welcomes its new batch of PG students
Team Careers360 | June 20, 2019 | 05:54 PM IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 20: IIM Ahmedabad welcomed students of Post Graduate Programme for Management (PGP) and Post Graduate Programme for Food and Agri-Business Management (PGP-FABM) for the academic year of 2019-21.
The students are mostly experienced professionals hailing from diverse backgrounds, with 49% of the students having at least 13 months of experience. This year’s batch saw a leap in students from agriculture background with 48% candidates, while 26% of the students were from food and dairy technology backgrounds.
Speaking on the diverse nature of the batch, Chairperson (Admissions) Prof. Vishal Gupta said, “Our admissions policy helps us admit students with diverse perspectives...this is part of a conscious effort to improve the in-class learning experience of students, who we believe would benefit from being in class with people from diverse background.”
The diversity of the batch is not limited to the related fields of food and agriculture as there are also students from other backgrounds such as journalism. “My undergraduate course in Communication Studies gave me a wider perspective as it involved various facets of organisational behaviour, internet and new media, human communication, and media research and criticism... Now, my key objective behind pursuing this programme is to learn all aspects of managing and strengthening a business while also obtaining necessary industry knowledge and expertise,” said Manasi Susarla, a Student of PGP batch 2019-21 with a background in Journalism and Communication.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- National Digital University to be ‘world’s largest online university’: UGC Chairman
- Lok Sabha Election 2024: Over 50 students, teachers arrested over past 5 years
- Diversity and inclusion ‘all on paper’, writes a transgender activist on experience at work
- ‘This is terrible’: West Bengal teachers who fought recruitment scam dismayed by cancellation
- More women joining engineering with scholarships, affirmative action in admission, placements
- BTech in Marathi: How PCCOE Pune is showing the way
- ‘We hope to admit students from outside Kerala’: CET Trivandrum principal
- IIIT Bangalore plans to launch BTech programmes, says director
- COMEDK UGET ‘model exam’ for engineering colleges: Executive Secretary
- Top IT companies have cut thousands of jobs in past months, reports on headcounts show