More seats, new courses at IIMs

To broadbase their activities in sync with the changing economy.

The six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will start more courses and increase their intake in several existing ones from the coming academic year.

This follows a directive from the human resources ministry to broadbase their activities in sync with the changing economy.

IIM, Ahmedabad, will have an executive MBA programme, which will have 50 seats. The other programmes that will be on offer at the premier institute are: global managers (one-year, 30 seats) and leading and managing (one year, 80 seats).

IIM, Kolkata, will have a one-year programme for the development of entrepreneurs, with 300 seats, while IIM Lucknow's Noida campus will start a 50-seat certificate programme in management for defence officers having a six-month duration. IIM, Kozhikode will begin a 100-seat executive MBA programme via the distant education module.

Besides, IIM, Ahmedabad, will increase capacity in its existing fellow programmes in management and development to 20 and 40 seats against the present 15 and 30 seats, respectively.

IIM, Bangalore, will increase the number of seats in its post-graduate programmes in management and software enterprise management to 260 and 150 against the existing 180 and 120.

The post-graduate programme in agri-business management at IIM, Lucknow, will admit 60 students against the existing 30.

IIM, Indore will increase the number of seats in its executive post-graduate programme in management to around 60 compared with the current level of 20, while IIM, Kozhikode, will raise to 180 the number of seats in its post-graduate programme in management against the existing 120.