FAST FACTS
Location: Rohini Delhi
Other campuses: Greater Noida, Jaipur
Director: Dr J K Goyal
Approval/Accreditation: AICTE approved, NBA accredited
Flagship programme: PGDM
Student intake: 180
Fees (full course): Rs. 345,000
Board & lodging (two years): Rs. 120,000
Admission test cut-offs: CAT/MAT - 80
Full-time faculty: 36 (Professors - 8; Associate Professors - 8; Lecturers - 20)
Faculty with industry experience (over 10 years): 2
Average placement salary: Rs 4.5 lakhs
Top recruiters: Citi Bank, Hero Honda, JK Group, Oracle India, Pepsi
Conferences: Corporate Checkmate
Student activities: VERVE (inter college fest), Oasis (intra college fest)
Web site: jimsindia.org
Other programmes: PGDM (part-time), AICTE-approved (36 months)
AS we entered JIMS, we discover ed that placements was in progress and one IT company was in the campus. The nervousness among the second-year students is palpable. They politely ask to be excused from interacting with us, leaving us to chat with a group of 15 to 20 first year students, who outline their wish list. On the top is their keenness to see more recruiters visiting the campus during placement time.
The placements aren’t 100 percent, admits Dr. JK Goyal, Director. There are four categories of students, he reasons. The first category has girls who get married off by the third semester, the second, boys who eventually move to the family business. “The third, though bright, lack the aspiration as many of them hail from small towns,” he shares. What they need is confidence-building exercises and some academic focus. If the faculty guides them aptly, a lot of them get upgraded to the fourth category, which gets good placements, Dr. Goyal tells us.
Last year the school received approximately 20,000 applications, of which 3,000 were shortlisted and a list of 400 was announced. Student intake is only 180. Girls dominate in number; even the faculty ratio is skewed in favour of women. On an average the faculty teaches four to five courses in a year, combined with an administrative workload. The institution has faculty development programmes such as seminars conducted by professors from IIT, DU, FMS, IIFT and others.
The faculty is encouraged to take up research programmes and write research papers. However, a faculty exchange programme has not been explored, yet. A faculty member, currently pursuing a PhD from IP University, underlines the importance of publishing papers, attributing it to the intangible growth it brings.
We are allowed to slip into a classroom, where a Business Plan Competition is in progress. Nine students each are giving a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation to 50-odd students. The judges are in the process of interrogating one group, which has just presented a business plan, on how to set up a drug company. Three of the winners will be awarded cash prizes.
Some students expressed the need for student exchange programmes as well as incubation centres. Besides this, an immediate concern of some residential students is sprucing up their paying guest accommodation. JIMS doesn’t have a residential facility but maintains a listing of PG accommodations, which it suggests to out-station students. The facilities are reviewed periodically and may be struck off the list if students make complaints.
The campus is wi-fi enabled and has 300 computers for students’ use. The library has 4,000 management titles. The attendance list of students in the library is evaluated every month . JIMS, which is expanding fast, has the potential of great academic output but has to step up its efforts earnestly.