The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore has received its first international accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA, a UK-based accreditation agency), for four of its full-time programmes – Two Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (both at Indore and Mumbai), One Year Full Time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) and Five Year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM, 4th and 5th Year).
IIM Indore is now the 4th IIM in the country to be accredited by AMBA. It is also the first IIM to offer a five year integrated programme in management, and Post Graduate Programme and week-end Post Graduate Programme for Working Executives in Mumbai, and the first IIM to offer a doctoral programme in Management for working professionals.
Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore said that the institute is further aiming for improvement/reforms in three main aspects;
- To enhance research output
- To keep the institute’s programmes up-to-date and ensure that they are among the best academic courses in the world
- To focus more on entrepreneurship and launch a separate entrepreneurship concentration in post-graduate programmes.