IMI Kolkata

International Management Institute (IMI) Kolkata is a private business school located in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 2010. The Institute started its operation in 2011 with its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA). The first group of students at IMI Kolkata graduated in the year 2013. Campus placements at IMI Kolkata increased in the year 2014. In 2017, the Institute obtained the approval from All India Council for Technical Education to launch the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), a Ph.D. level programme. IMI Kolkata's two-year full time PGDM programme is also accorded equivalence with Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
IMI Kolkata belongs to the IMI family of B-Schools in India. IMI came up with its first campus at New Delhi in the year 1981. IMI New Delhi was established in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD Lausanne) and is the first corporate sponsored B-school in India. During its inception, the institute was backed by the support of large companies such as RPG Enterprises, Nestle, ITC, SAIL, Tata Chemicals, BOC and Williamson Magor. In 2010 the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group opened two more campuses in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.
In 2023, IMI Kolkata was ranked 70th among management institutes in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). IMI Kolkata is also a part of Study in India programme, under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
In 2011, in order to facilitate joint research in retail and other areas, IMI entered into an agreement with the Oxford Institute of Retail Management (OXIRM). The basic objective of the research programme was to influence public policy decision makers on retail development issues and retail practitioners through data-driven retail and consumer-related research outputs among others. Subsequently, the Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with various eminent institutes/universities on the global front. The agreements are aimed at mutual support, confluence of ideas, knowledge sharing, joint research and consultancy as well as scholarly exchanges that encompass faculty and student exchange programmes. The collaborating partners include:
IMI Kolkata offers a two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM). The criteria for selection to the academic program is based on the Common Admission Test (CAT), the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) score of the candidates applying to the course. In June 2017, IMI Kolkata introduced its doctoral level programme for the first time called Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) to encourage scholars and support their efforts to become researchers and academicians in various fields of Management. For Session 2021, the college has also decided to accept candidates with Management Aptitude Test (MAT) scores, due to the COVID-19 situation.
IMI Konnect is a bi-monthly open access scholarly management publication of IMI Kolkata.
IMI-Kolkata has four Centres of Excellence in the areas of Financial Markets, Retail, Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility, Asian Studies and Consumer Studies.
The campus building is separated into an academic block and a residential block. Developed and designed by Abin Design Studio the decorative pattern of the building is inspired by nature There are single occupancy fully furnished hostel rooms for the students within the campus for both boys and girls along with mess facility available adjacent to the hostel. There is a common room for indoor games and the students also have access to the gymnasium. The entire campus is Wi-fi enabled with LAN connectivity thereby providing access to the internet to both the academic as well as the residential block. Classroom lectures are updated with the latest audio-visual equipment.
Consisting of 11,000 square meters, this unique building is the first of its kind to be built in India with its colored façade and unmistakable identity. Designed by architect Abin Chaudhuri, the concept was to insert a burst of color in the city's monotonous dense urban fabric, representing the colors of the sky. To achieve the colors in the glass facade, Vanceva PBB has been used as the sandwich material between two layers of glass. The colored laminate on the façade follows no repetitive pattern and is symbolic of the unpredictable nature of the sky. It also represents the vibrancy of today's youth. An integrated plaza with a water body has been designed. The water body receives no direct sunlight and creates a comfortable micro-climate. Wherever possible shading trees have been planted on the hard landscape and soft landscape has been introduced.
Apart from seminar, workshops, conferences, Management Development Programmes (MDPs) and Faculty Development Programmes conducted on a regular basis in the campus, IMI Kolkata hosts three annual events every year-
Convocation at IMI Kolkata is a grand event. Since 2013, the management institute has had the honor of eminent personalities in its convocation ceremonies such as-
According to Arindam Banik, Director of IMI Kolkata an international research focus is inextricably linked with effective management training. The objective is to support companies in a changing world by combining theoretical progress and their implications in business. The institute's faculty members are actively engaged with various research projects sponsored by globally recognized agencies and universities such as the National Foundation for Corporate Governance, Space Applications Centre (ISRO) CIMOn Aasia-ohjelmasta, BRICS (Rio de Janeiro), SASS South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI),), and Curtin University