IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) All Questions

Hey,

Abundant of alumina from IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Lucknow are doing great for the nation's development. Various Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGP-ABM)  graduates are executives of several companies. And In my opinion the graduates from such Institution where there is 100% placement stats are obviously doing something great for the nation as well as for themselves.

Hello,

Anurag Kashyap is one of the Alumina of IIM Ahmedabad, he has done his Post Graduate Programme In Food and Agri-business Management (PGP-FABM) graduation in 2018. He is currently working as Senior Procurement Manager with FRAAZO. He is very much Agribusiness Passionate, Philanthropist, Blogger and Poet.

Hi,

Frisbee has been played at IIMA since time immemorial.  However, it started getting to be a really popular thing from the 2006 - 08 batch onwards.

It had a modest start with just with a few guys from batch (2005 - 07) who were throwing a frisbee around on LKP - these were people who were playing just for fun, and didn't really know about (or care about) ultimate. A few people from batch (2006 - 08) joined in, and this became a sort of semi regular thing. Frisbee under the lights of LKP at night, followed by Nimbu Paani at CT.

Hope it helps.

Hi,

While the batch majority is dominated by IITs & NITs, IIMA has students from many different colleges that you might not have been exposed to.

Here are some REAL examples from the IIMA batch of 2021:

• Mulund College of commerce
• SASTRA Deemed University
• Government college of commerce & business administration
• Faculty of Commerce, Banaras
• IIS Jaipur
• Francis College

This clearly shows that IIMA does not care about your past institution and all you need is the ability to work hard and have a clear vision about your goals.

Hope it helps.

Dear Aspirant ,

PGPX( Post Gragduate Programme in Mangement for Executives) is a very career defining course . It is our country's and infact globally one of the finest and most prestigious course .

It is a full time 1 year course. The batch is carefully choosen to ensure diversification and well balanced class. The eligibilty criteria is as follows

1. An Undergraduate degree or equivalent

2. Good GMAT/GRE scores which are not more than 5 years old from the date of application. If you wish to apply for the 2022 -2023 batch then the earliest acceptable GMAT/GRE scores would be -Round 1: august 2016 , round 2: october 2016, round 3: december 2016

3. You should be 25 years of as  on 31 March , 2022

4. Minimum 4 years of work experience after completion of graduation .

So you see, since a Work Ex . profile of minimum 4 years is required , you've got a plus point of having more than that . With good GMAT/GRE scores and work ex of 10 years it will be worth it and would be a great boost to your career profile.

Hope this helps

Best of Luck!

Hello,

To answer your question first you need to understand that there are several reasons for that. I am trying to give the brief idea of main reasons behind this.

PGPX program placement is for mid and senior level roles of the company. Previous job experience play a very important role in placement of PGPX so the participants which have not valid background they struggle to find right placements.

Many of the students rejects their early offer while expecting a higher package from another company and end up not finding anything. This is also the one reason behind this. Many of the student applied for many companies which are coming to the campus even if they don't have relevant experience for that job and because of that they loose their concentration on those few companies which are related to their background.

One thing you need to understand is that many company will visit IIM-A for placements and it's the participant responsibility to crack those opportunities.

Hope it helps!

Hello,

The life at IIM Ahmedabad is awesome in terms of everything. You will develop many of the skills there and you learn various aspects of business and much more. And yes in the end definitely you will get a good salary package. Now let's deep dive into this. At IIM-A you will have peers from different domains and everyone has their own skill and knowledge of their domain. You will learn a lot from each other. Apart from that you will have excellent faculties and a beautiful campus. You will be in touch with alumni network and trust me there alumni network is huge and very good. Course curriculum is perfectly defined and suitable for your learning.

There will be several college competitions and by participating in that you will explore yourself.

In short if I have to summarise this then the life at IIM-A is full of fun, learning and developing yourself.

Hope it helps!

Hi,

This a case which has two situations. Lets get by them one by one:

Summer Placements

While most of the firms are open for all students at these institutes, there are some roles/firms that require some minimum work experience. Some of the names include LEK Consulting, Alvarez and Marsal. These firms put a minimum work experience criteria of around 20 months. Though the entire process for these firms is the same, the students not meeting the work experience criteria simply can’t apply through the internship portal

Final Placements (Laterals)

During the final placements, many firms bring multiple roles on campus. The roles that are meant for students with work experience are offered during the Lateral Placement drive, which is separate from the Final placement that is open to all. There are many firms bringing in senior roles at this stage and the process of laterals is different from finals. Some institutes even provide the flexibility of salary negotiations, role discussions etc.

Hope it helps.

Hi,

A very interesting story I found online:

Scene: Understanding People and Organizations, known as UPO (a course that contained way too much theory for most people to stomach, produced several agents for the "sleeper cell") taught by Prof Vishal Gupta. The guy sitting behind me had been deep asleep for the last fifteen minutes, and we had all been stifling our laughter at the sight of it.

Background: This prof was exceedingly friendly, and would never lose his temper. Even if the class was breaking out into chaos, he'd just raise his voice ever so slightly and we'd all quiet down in moments - you could say he was firm yet friendly.

He glanced at the sleeper behind me, then told the person next to him with a seemingly alarmed smile:

Please wake him up before he falls off his seat!

When he woke up with a start, the prof genially smiled at him and sent him to wash his face. Henceforth, in every class of his he would cast a quick glance at him and ask him whether he was awake! :P
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Scene: Marketing-II class (which was to be taught by Prof Dheeraj Sharma)

Exactly on time, instead of Prof Sharma, in walks Prof Sanjay Verma.
Background: Prof Sanjay Verma was from the information sciences department.

For a few seconds, we all sat silent, trying to understand the anomaly. He looked around and announced nonchalantly:

"You were expecting Amitabh Bacchan, instead you got Prem Chopra!"

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Scene: There was once a meeting organised between the PGP1s, the PGP2s and Profs Pavan Mamidi and Ankur Sarin. This had been to discuss difficulties we had been facing in the rigorous system WIMWI is so notorious for (yes, the struggle is real.)

Background: One of the complaints, in simple terms, was that the PGP1s and 2s were not bonding well enough despite many activities intended to improve this camaraderie. Also, for those who don't know, Gujarat is a dry state (so liquor is officially illegal)

Prof Mamidi, upon hearing this complaint from the PGP2s, did a facepalm and remarked to the PGP2s present:

How hard is it to bond with someone? Just get together, smoke up, have a drink and everyone's peaceful!

Hope it helps.

Hi,

While there is no clear cut comparison between the two institutes as both institutes are really good in every aspect, there lies a few distinct things about each you should know:

IIMA’s flagship program is 2 year PGDM whereas 1-year PGPX is not the flagship program of IIMA. Hence if you are comparing ISB's flagship one year MBA program with 1 year program of IIMA, it is not a logical comparison. Generally, non-flagship programs are not given that much importance as compared to the flagship program.

Although the choice is simple, If you're a fresher and looking for an MBA, you should go for IIMA. But if you have 2–3 years of experience ISB would be a better option.

Hope it helps.