IIM Udaipur welcomes 384 students to MBA program; 42% students from non-engineering disciplines

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur hosted its inaugural ceremony for the 2024-26 batch of its flagship two-year MBA program, featuring 384 students. The recent batch comprises 32% females and 68% male students.

Among them, 58% have backgrounds in engineering, while 42% hail from non-engineering fields. Additionally, 60% of the students possess prior work experience, with the remaining 40% are freshers.

The event was presided over by Ashok Banerjee, Director of IIM Udaipur. Sonny Iqbal of Egon Zehnder was the Chief Guest. He stressed upon the importance of combining hard work and dedication with strategic growth in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. He also urged the students to focus on forging good relationships and managing those relationships wisely at all stages of their careers.

Rajesh Nanarpuzha, Dean, Programs, emphasised the importance of the student's role at IIMU, said, "Students should think about their first day in IIMU as the start of a new journey which will continue over the next decades in their life. They should use the time at IIMU for creating building blocks for the same. IIMU has an existing culture. Students should always look to shape it for the better. They should leave IIMU better than where they found it."

Scholastic, Director's awards presented for academic excellence

The inauguration ceremony celebrated academic excellence with scholastic awards for outstanding performance across three terms of the first year.

Director's Awards were presented to several students for their exemplary performance. The students are- Deepti Singh, Mansi Jain, Vishwajeet T Khot, Alekhya Tummala, Abhishek Kumar, Joshua Jude Almeida, Tathagat Uday, Agarwal Naman Khemchand, Gorli Sindhu, Rushil Singhal, Chaganti Sri Satya Sahithi, Gurupreet Singh Sachdev, Soumyadeep Das, Mayank Sharma, John Medwin V, Ayush Saini, and Shubham Mani Kaushik.