KIIT School of Management
KIIT School of Management (KSOM) is a premier business school located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It was established in 1993 as the Institute of Business Administration and Training. It is a constituent institute of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology. KIIT School of Management is one of the 10 private institutes in India and the only one in Odisha to get "Institution of Eminence" tag from UGC, MHRD, Govt. of India. The institute was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 'A' grade. It offers the two-year flagship Master of Business Administration (MBA) program along  with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and a doctoral program in Management. The institute also regularly conducts Management Development programs for working executives. The institute conducts its own national-level entrance examination called KIITEE Management generally held in January each year. It also accepts CAT, GMAT, CMAT, MAT and ATMA scores for admission. History. The school was founded in 1993 as Institute of Business Administration and Training by Pradyumna Kishore Bal, an eminent thinker and pioneer of value-based journalism. The institute started a two year post-graduate diploma in Management with an annual intake of 60 students in  a rented building in Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, which were revised to 120 seats in the year 2002. Later on in 2004, it was affiliated to Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology. The successive directors of KSOM were Arindam Banerjee, M.L. Monga, Ramesh Chandra Pani, D.V. Ramana, Govind Rajan, H.R. Machiraju, L.K. Vaswani and Deepak Gandhi, Anil Bajpai and Debasis Das. , Prof. Anil Bajpai is the director and Prof. Satya Narayan Misra the current dean. Campus. The school is a fully WIFI campus spread across 35 acres. Classroom – All the class rooms are equipped with audio-video systems, overhead projectors, computers and wireless  hotspots. Auditorium – It has a 500-seater in-house auditorium for industry talks, student functions, lectures and movie screening. Amphitheatre – It also has one 120-seater open gallery for seminar talks and smaller events. Hostel – There are separate boys and girls hostels for all inmates, across all programs. All the rooms are Wi-Fi enabled. Sports – Swimming Pools, Tennis and Volleyball Courts, Large Playgrounds, a jogging track and facilities for indoor sports, for students and faculty are provided as part of the University. The school also houses a 24/7 multipurpose gymnasium. Medical Facility – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology has its  own ultra-modern multi-specialty thousand-bed hospital – Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, that provides medical checkups to the students every year. The students are covered under the University medical insurance policy. Academics. Academic programmes. The curriculum is divided into 9 academic areas: Marketing, Business Analytics, Finance and Accounts, Human Resources & Organizational Behaviour, Information Technology, Production & Operations Management, General Management, Business Communication, Strategy, Managerial Economics, Quantitative Methods & Decision Sciences and Entrepreneurial Management. The MBA curriculum consists of three different components – Core courses, Elective courses and corporate experience through study tours and Summer Internship Program (SIP).The core and elective courses are  delivered over 4 semesters of 20 weeks' duration for each semester and a summer project of 8 weeks' duration after the 2nd semester in the months of May & June (SIP). There are 17 core courses in the first year and one core course plus elective courses equivalent to 32 credits in the second year covering seven functional areas. Summer internship. Students at the school take up two-month Summer Internship Program (SIP) after their second semester. The internship comprises 8 credits, forming a significant part of students’ overall academic credits. The students work on projects that help them familiarize with  the corporate culture and the demands of today's business. Rankings. KIIT was ranked 31 amongst management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021, 49 by "Business Today"s "India's best B-schools 2019" and 11 in India by "Outlook India"s "Top 150 Private MBA Institutions" of 2020. Library. The 9,800 sq.ft. library housed inside the campus is well equipped with computer terminals with high speed broadband Ethernet access coupled with fast wireless access. It has been automated using (LibSys 7) with online catalogue (webopac). It has a collection of printed and electronic resources which  includes over 22,122 books, 30 international and 150 national journals, over 10,000 e-journals made available through various online databases EBSCO, Emerald and ABI/INFORM Complete and CMIE (Corporate database) on Management Development studies and related subjects. Faculty. The school has over 60 full-time faculty members with qualifications from institutions including University of Massachusetts, University of Wisconsin, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, XLRI, XIMB, IITs. Close to 50% of the faculty hold doctoral degrees with many others pursuing doctoral studies. The permanent faculty team is supplemented by several visiting faculties, drawn from both industry and academia. Section::::"Parikalpana". KSOM  publishes a bi-annual peer reviewed journal named "Parikalpana" which includes articles submitted by faculty members, research scholars and professionals. The journal covers business sectors in India and abroad. Collaborations. KSOM has established academic partnership with several organisations to jointly deliver content, foster innovation, enhance student learning and develop new capabilities. Student life. Clubs. Beyond the classroom study hours, students learn the nuances of management through clubs, both academic and non-academic, and special interest groups. Students can join one or more of the 10 clubs on campus. The club work involves group-task, leadership skills, creativity, time and conflict  management and general sociality. The clubs invite speakers to campus, organize trips, social events, and help form bonds between students of similar interests. The Student Development Committee is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. Clubs further hones their management skills by organizing events related to the various aspects of management. The clubs bring together group-work, leadership skills, creativity, hard work, management principles and general camaraderie in an entertaining way. Each club has members from both First and Second Year MBA students and is led by a faculty coordinator. Following are the various student  clubs operating at the institute: Events. Business and cultural events are organised by the student community of KSOM. Kolosseum is the annual b-school fest of KSOM. Spread over three days, the event witnesses various management, cultural and creative games and star performances. It has included appearances from Sona Mohapatra, Ram Sampath, Kunal Ganjawala, Hard Kaur, Krishna Beura, KK and others. HR Conclave: Each year, a relevant HR issue is picked up by the Human Resources area that forms the underlying theme of the conclave at KSOM. Students get a ringside view of the latest in the field of HR  and gets to live the experiences of the senior industry professionals though panel discussions, keynote speeches, student workshops, etc. Key speakers of the past HR Conclaves include Mr. Rajeev Dubey, Mr. S.Y Siddiqui, Mr. Ambarish Dasgupta, Dr. Sumit Chowdhury, etc. Finance Conclave: KSOM organizes a national level Finance Conclave each year. Key attendees of past Finance conclaves have been Dr. Aditya Puri, MD and CEO, HDFC Bank; Dr. N. Chandrasekaran, MD and CEO, TCS; Dr. K C Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, RBI; Dr. K G Karmakar, MD, NABARD; Mr. Debashish Mohanty, Country Head, UTI MF; Mr. Tridev Khandelwal, Associate Director, SR  Batliboi & Associates, etc. Marketing Conclave: Each year, the school organizes a National Level Marketing Conclave, with a theme based on New Trends and Challenges in Marketing.Some of the guests of past Marketing Conclaves have been Mr. Dilip Cherian, PR Consultant, widely considered the “Image Guru” of India; Mr.Vishnu Govind, GM-Marketing; Raymond Limited; Mr. Videh Jaipuriar, CEO – Jubilant Industries Limited; Mr. Salil K. Sahu, MD – Home Stores India, etc. National Management Convention: It's a yearly event where both Academic and Corporate Delegates present their research findings. The prominent speakers of Past conventions include Ms. Shobha Mishra Ghosh , Senior Director, Education, FICCI and Shri Debabrat Mishra, Director, Hay Group; Prof. C. V. Baxi, Professor in Public Policy and Governance, MDI Gurgaon & Mr. Nikhil Pant, Chief Programme Officer, NFCSR, IICA; Mr. Praveen Gupta, Chief General Manager, SBI and Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya, Former Vice Chancellor, JNU and Distinguished Professor, IIM Lucknow