IIM Kashipur begins 2023 session of PG programme with 321 MBA students

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur has started the 2023-2025 batch of the two-year MBA programme. As many as 321 students have enrolled for the MBA programme in IIM Kashipur, while 170 have enrolled in the institute’s two-year MBA (Analytics) programme.

Out of 321 candidates, as per an IIM Kashipur statement, admitted in the MBA programme 259 are male students and 62 are female students. Of the 170 students admitted in MBA (Analytics) programme, 52 are male students and 118 female students. Nine candidates have also been admitted to the doctoral programme.

The institute has also increased its seat intake from 264 to 320 for MBA programme and from 80 to 160 for MBA (Analytics) programme.

The institute held its inaugural programme of the new batches (AY 2023-25) of MBA, MBA (Analytics) and Doctoral (PhD) programs of IIM Kashipur with an orientation session.

As per reports, more than 450 candidates attended the function. Kulbhushan Balooni, Director, IIM Kashipur, Mala Srivastava, Dean of Academics at IIM Kashipur, along with faculty, and prospective aspirants were also present at the event.

While attending the inaugural program at IIM Kashipur, Asish Mohapatra expressed his views and stated, “Take responsibility for your life and demonstrate excellence.”

He explained the theory of ‘Six H’ in life and said “The first H is hunger, the ability to dream and go beyond what people around you are telling you. The second H is hard work. The third H, which is the most important, links the first two and cannot be done without Humility. Be generous, give others their time. Remember the five elements: hard cash, and humor. You can't survive without humor. Despite only being a team of 1,100 people, we made significant revenue milestones. We were the youngest startup in India to reach 200 crore in 8 months, the youngest company to reach 2000 crore in 21 months and the youngest company to reach 10,000 crore in 46 months. Last year we earned a revenue of around Rs 19,000 crore."

IIM Kashipur has secured the 19th rank among the top 50 Management Institutes/Colleges in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)-2023 ranking released by the Ministry of Education. IIM Kashipur has also become the only IIM to get into the Top 50 in NIRF-ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements) quotient, leaving behind other IIMs.