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| IIM Admission after Class XII |
Students who are aspire to study in IIM will not have to wait till they finish their Graduation Degree anymore. IIM Indore has launched a Integrated five year Post Graduate Diploma in Management. So soon after class 12th students can opt for studies in IIMs This will be a 3 year degree program followed by Masters Program.
IIM Indore has come out with this new course to include the students who receives very good marks in entrance exams and yet they are not able to get the institutes of their choice, so IIM I has open the door for students to get admissions into the IIMs in the graduation itself. IIM Indore is the 1st college amongst all the IIM’s to launch a degree course.
The minimum eligibility is 60% in Class XII & Class X. The final selection will be based on an aptitude test and interview of the entrance test module. The tuition fee for the first three years will be Rs 3 lakh per annum and for the post graduation of two years, it will be Rs 5 lakh a year. That makes it Rs 9 Lakh for the Degree Course and Rs. 19 Lakhs for the whole 5 year Management Program.
“IIM Indore wants to have a dominating presence, both in terms of size and impact, in all segments of management education, including under-graduate programmes,” said IIM-Indore director N Ravichandran. “We identified four streams — top-end research programmes, executive education programme, the flagship post-graduate programme and an integrated PGP where we’ll have the time and opportunity to shape young minds towards management education.”
Ravichandran adds: “I don’t think the new programme will dilute the brand value of IIMs, particularly IIM-Indore. I think it will strengthen it. Nobel laureates in the West teach undergraduate students and we won’t compromise on quality of any of our programmes,” he said. “I feel IIMs have to invest in young minds.”
The five-year residential Integrated Programme of Graduation and Post Graduation in Management was initially designed in such a way that any student could drop out, if they wish, after the degree course. But the HRD ministry refused that plan by not allowing the institute to modify its governing Societies Act, which states that the IIMs are postgraduate schools. So, the exit route after three years was closed.
