St. Joseph's Institute of Management, Bangalore
St. Joseph's Institute of Management (SJIM) is a private graduate school of business located in Bangalore, India. It offers a two-year full-time PGDM program and is approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi History. St. Joseph's Institute of Management (formerly known as St Joseph’s College of Business Administration) was established in 1968. It is situated off MG Road, central business district of Bangalore. It is one of the oldest management institutes in the state of Karnataka which is managed by the members of the Society  of Jesus called Jesuits. In 1996 SJIM secured approval from AICTE, New Delhi, for a two-year full-time PGDM program. In 2007 SJIM got approval from the AICTE for offering the Executive PGDM and PGCM programs. The institute was shifted to a new campus with state-of-the-art facilities located off MG Road, Bangalore in 2016 and it was inaugurated by Mr Rahul Dravid, the former captain of Indian Cricket team who himself was an alumnus of St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School and St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. On 27 November 2018, SJIM celebrated the Golden  Jubilee to commemorate the establishment of the institute in 1968. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the former President of India was the chief guest at the event. The institute celebrated the silver jubilee of the commencement of PGDM program on 19 March 2021. Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, the Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was the chief guest for the event.The institute prides of a student profile with diverse educational background and corporate exposure. SJIM is a member of International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS) and Xavier Association of Management Institutions (XAMI). Academic programs. Post Graduate Diploma in  Management (PGDM). It is the flagship program of the institute of two-year duration. The whole program is broken into six trimesters. Students take up industry internships for eight weeks after the third trimester. The institute offers dual specialization in Finance, Marketing, Human Resource Management and Operations. Specializations are: Finance and Marketing Human Resource Management and Finance Marketing and Human Resource Management Finance and Operations Marketing and Operations Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D). St. Joseph’s Institute of Management (SJIM) has been recognized as a Research Centre by the University of Mysore from the academic year 2021-22 onwards. The aim  of SJIM’s Ph.D. program at the Research Centre is to provide a nurturing and challenging environment for its doctoral students. SJIM offers doctoral program in areas like Organizational Behaviour, Commerce, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management. Rankings. In 2018, SJIM was listed among the top 3 business schools in Bangalore by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), behind only IIM-B and XIME. NIRF also listed St Joseph's Institute of Management among the top 7 in Karnataka, from over forty-five participating institutes. Outlook-ICARE India has ranked SJIM 28th in South India and sixth best in Bangalore in  2020. CSR-GHRDC has ranked SJIM as the sixth outstanding B-School of Excellence in India in 2020. "MBAUniverse.com" has ranked SJIM 59th in India in 2020. Eminent Visitors. Following eminent personalities have visited the campus and interacted with the students in recent years. 1. Pranab Mukherjee- Former President of India 2. Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Laureate 3. Rahul Dravid - Former Captain of Indian Cricket team 4. B Muthuraman- Former Vice Chairman of Tata Steel 5. Kamal Bali - President and MD, Volvo Group, India 6. Deepak Kumar Hota -CMD, BEML Ltd. 7. Hari Menon- Cofounder and CEO, Bigbasket 8. Anil Sahasrabudhe  - Chairman, AICTE Student Events. Verve is a national level inter-collegiate management fest wherein the institute hosts events in Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, Entrepreneurship, Stocks, Best Manager and Quiz. Pinnacle is an intra-collegiate management fest where events are conducted across various management domains. International B-Plan competition is held every year between SJIM and Albers School of Business, US. Chintana- A national level Case Study Competition. Research. The Center for Business Research at SJIM aims to create and disseminate cutting edge knowledge in management. The Center engages in producing high quality research, aiming solely at double blind peer  reviewed journals or conferences of reputed international academic bodies in business and management. Further, recognizing that a strong indicator of an institute's teaching quality is how much students are inspired to undertake higher academic study, interested students are provided opportunities to collaborate with, or be guided by faculty at the Center on research projects. The Center produces in-house research, as well as collaborates with other academics on cutting edge research projects from reputed business schools like the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University, USA), Kelly School of Business (Indiana University, USA), INSEAD (France), XLRI (Jamshedpur, India), and IIM  Bangalore (India). The researchers at the Center have published in the Journal of Services Marketing, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Management International Review, European Management Review, the Journal of Customer Behaviour, Harvard Business School Cases and presented their research at the Academy of Management, the Midwest Academy of Management, the Eastern Academy of Management, the International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (Humboldt University), the Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship (Stern School of Business), and the China-India Consumer Insights Conference (Yale School of Management). International collaboration. SJIM currently has collaboration with four international institutions. In 2017, SJIM entered  into an agreement with Albers School of Business and Economics, an AACSB Jesuits business school that is part of Seattle University, USA. Joint activities have included guest lectures in SJIM by Albers faculty, research collaboration, and an international business plan competition. SJIM's collaboration with the University of Central Oklahoma, USA facilitates desirous students from the institute to pursue their summer internship in the USA. Other ongoing collaborations include those with Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and Putra Business School in Malaysia. Eminent Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. On the occasion of the silver Jubilee of the PGDM  program, SJIM has instituted annual Eminent Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award to recognize a sound business model that has impactfully addressed a social or environmental injustice. The 2021 SJIM Eminent Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award was awarded to Teach for India (TFI). International Leadership Conference- Utkarsh. St. Joseph's Institute of Management has created a platform, SJIM Leadership Network, for leadership thinkers to come together on a regular and periodic basis and provide direction to the country and the world at large as a long term vision.