Rise in arts students in new MBA and MBA FABM classes: IIMA
Team Careers360 | August 3, 2020 | 09:42 AM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI : The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, initiated the new batch of MBA and MBA Food and Agri-Business Management in online mode on Sunday. The new academic session will be conducted online due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
A batch of 47 students was welcomed in the online inaugural of the new academic year. Most of the students enrolled in the new batch fall within the age bracket of 21 to 25 years.
Usually dominated by students from commerce and science streams, the new batch of 2020-21 saw a significant rise in students from arts background joining the MBA Programme.
This year saw a slight shift in the academic background from engineering to science. New batches in the IIMs are generally dominated by engineers. With 48 percent, a majority of students enrolled in the new batch have engineering background followed by 45 percent students from science stream.
Also read:
- IIM Lucknow to commence online classes from August 3 for PGP batch
- IIM Calcutta flagship MBA program to start online classes from August
Write to us at news@careers360.com
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
]- CISCE schools can continue to teach foreign languages as 3rd option: Board secretary
- ‘Fix schools, create jobs’: West Bengal voters cut through election noise with education, employment demands
- BBAU Lucknow student’s death sparks protests against hostel food, curfew; proctor denies link
- Fees to social media-use: What NCAHP’s first ethics code for allied, healthcare professionals says
- NMC junks 150-seat MBBS cap, population rule; sets 10 km limit for medical college-hospital distance
- Suicides, opaque placements, caste: IIT Bombay, Kanpur’s student journals dare to ask the tough questions
- ‘Not just academic, but personal’: NSUT Delhi takes AI beyond BTech, across non-engineering courses
- AI judge, cyber law courses, scholarships: GNLU is revamping LLB degrees to make students courtroom-ready
- CBSE third language policy throws French, Spanish, German teachers across schools into crisis
- With CSE surge, these specialised BTech courses are vanishing from engineering colleges