page_title: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
section_title: Student life
hierarchical_section_title: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow / Student life
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Hostel 15 of IIM Lucknow, taken on 25th June 2011 using a 5 megapixel Mobile camera.
context_page_description: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow is a public business school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1984 as the fourth Indian Institute of Management by the Government of India. IIM Lucknow offers post-graduate diploma, fellowship and executive programs in management. It is recognised as an "Institution of Excellence" by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development. IIM Lucknow also serves as the mentor institution for the newly established IIM Jammu, IIM Rohtak and IIM Kashipur. It also served as a mentor institute to IIM Sirmaur till 2018.
  The institute is on a 200-acre site in the northern outskirts of Lucknow. It also has a second campus on a 20-acre site at Noida exclusively for one year full-time MBA program, Two-year PGP for working executive and executive education.
context_section_description: The Media and Communication Cell (MCC) serves as a communications liaison between the institute and the external world. Synapse, a student committee, develops and maintains IT applications for the institute community.
  "Manfest-Varchasva" is IIM Lucknow's annual management, sports and cultural festival held in November. The three-day event hosts many management contests, leadership summits, and other inter college quizzes and sports and cultural competitions. Samvit, the annual leadership summit of IIM Lucknow witnesses some of the financial leaders and economists of the country with whom students get an opportunity to interact.
  "Just Tea" and "Gossip and Bite" are two student run food ventures in the campus and are passed on to the next cohort every year. The Entrepreneurship Cell conducts a competition called "Bizness", where all participants are given a seed capital of ₹ 2000 to run any business in the campus for two days and earn profits. The student committee "Credence Capital" runs a mutual fund, in which other students of the batch can invest. The Mess (Annapoorna) is entirely run and managed by students, with the infrastructure provided by the institute and is continuously ranked the best mess among that of all IIMs.
  A classical cultural night "Aarohan" is organised by the IIM Lucknow chapter of SPIC MACAY in the month of August. It showcases live shows of classical arts including carnatic, hindustanic, folk, instrumental and classical Indian dances. The institute's dance club "Random Walk" organises dance workshops regularly and performs stage shows during major festivals. The dramatics club "Abhivyakti" performs stage plays and street plays in Hindi and English. The Intracollege sports event called as Sangram is held in the month of October every year. The institute sports team participates in most of the popular college sports meets including the Inter-IIM Meet (Sangharsh) held during January every year. The latest edition of Sangharsh has been hosted by IIM Lucknow in January 2019 and IIM Lucknow emerged as the overall champion.
caption: Hostel 15, one of the student hostels
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