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IMI Bhubaneswar should aim to become a University - Chitta - 01-22-2023
IMI Bhubaneswar (https://imibh.edu.in/) is a business school in Bhubaneswar that started in 2011. Some initial funding perhaps came from IMI Delhi and the Goenka group. (Industrialist Sanjeev Goenka is the Chair of Board of Governors.) That same year IMI Kolkata also debuted.
IMI Bhubaneswar has been doing well. It has now 22 faculty. Its student numbers have steadily increased, and is now more than 100 per year. Following shows how its number increased steadily (Collected from https://imibh.edu.in/earlier_admission_reports )
2011-13 (12)
2012-14 (24)
2013-15 (18)
2014-16 (16)
2015-17 (46)
2016-18 (63)
2017-19 (70)
2018-20 (101)
2019-21 (108) - From https://imibh.edu.in/UserFiles/Image/19_21AR.pdf
2020-22 (115) - From https://imibh.edu.in/UserFiles/Image/20_22AR.pdf
2021-23 (111)
2022-24 (180)
It has a diverse student body. For the 2020-22 batch the student body came from the following states:
Bihar 11
Delhi 6
Chhattisgarh 2
Jharkhand 23
Madhya Pradesh 2
Odisha 18
Rajasthan 2
Uttar Pradesh 15
Uttarakhand 1
West Bengal 27
Andhra Pradesh 1
Assam 4
Haryana 2
Kerala 1
Its total fees for two years is about 13 lakhs (see https://imibh.edu.in/pgdm_fee_structure )
Its ranking information is given at https://imibh.edu.in/imi_in_b-school_rankings . In some of the rankings it is ranked higher than some of the IIMs.
This institute should aim to become a university (Goenka University) 5-10 years later and add add multiple programs. Perhpas the Odisha government should approach Mr. Goenka about this.
Note: See https://odishadev.odishasociety.org/thread-89.html for an earlier posting on this.)