Institute - IMT, Ghaziabad.
Centres - Ghaziabad, Nagpur
Official Website – https://imt.edu
President - Kamal nath (The Senior Congress leader).
Fee - App 4 lakhs
Selection Procedure - Individual written exam held at over 15 centres .Written exam is followed by livewire GDPI session (even extempore in some cases).
Joint entrance exam for admission to Gzb and nagpur(1st batch) centre for acedemic year 2003-05 scheduled to be held in the last week of Dec.
Infrastructure & Hostel facilities - Fully residential complete with all the modern amenities fully wired campus .
Faculty - Excellent.
Course ware - Quite good.
Courses offered -
Two Year Full-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM)
Three Year Full-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA)
Fifteen Month Full-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Executive MBA (PGDEM)
Three Year Part-Time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM P/T)
Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management. (PGDHRM)
Distance Learning Programmes (DLP)
Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
Global MBA
Post Graduate Programme in Bioinformatics
MBA in e-Learning Mode
Apporoval - The courses are apporoved by AICTE and Ministry of HRD, govt of India.
The Institute - Over two decades since it’s inception , the inst has carved a niche for itself amongst the premiere B-schools and has consistently ranked in the Top 15 B-schools.It always helps to have biggies on the board & IMT has several of them , kamal nath , Rajan Nanda, President-Escorts group, Vijay Mallya Chairman, McDowell & Co. Ltd, V.k. Modi, MD, Modi Rubber Ltd to name a few.
Industrial Interference - The inst holds excellent reputation with the concerned industry & frequently holds seminars and direct-interaction sessions which is of immense help both to the inst and the students.
Placement – 100% placement track record ( no pun intended). You could expect something in the range of 3-3.5 lakhs per annum . Moreover , with reputed cos coming to the campus gives it the extra edge of having a job which gives you both job satisfaction & fancy pay-packages.
The names of a few recruiters who visited the campus in the last placement session – TCS group, Usha group, Stan Chartered Bank, Lowe Lintas, SBI Life Insurance, Voltas, Whirlpool etc.
Rankings – Overall 13th as per the Outlook survey 2003.
10th in placement.
8th in Comp-student ratio.
To give you an idea of where it stood the last year –
Outlook rating – 13th.
Business Today rating – 15th.
But Wait ……
Rankings – You are not supposed to blindly trust the rating , they could be misleading at times. I’hv seen downright indifferent institutes finding a berth in the Top 100 list , even in the Top 50 list !! , IILM, LBS-B, Siva-Sivani to name a few are such insts in the Outlook’s rating of top 50 insts.Believe me , you just need one thing to get admission in these insts & it’s money .
See for yourself –
IMT Average Salary – year 2002 – 4, 11, 000 ( as per BT survey).
Average salary – year 2002 – 5, 72, 000(as per the official website & Indiabschools.com).
Number of Recruiters – 46 in the year 2002 ( as per BT)
Number of Recruiters - 72 in the year 2002 ( as per the official website).
Maximum salary offered – 7.10 Lakhs ( as per the official website)
Maximum salary offered – 9.0 Lakhs ( as per indiabschools.com)
So there you are . Which one’s the right figure ? This is just to say that Rankings are just that, Rankings .
SoundBites….
* I know someone who after completing his BE from IIT-B joined IMT, opted for Finance as his specialization and landed up a job of 3.8 lakhs/annum in one of the reputed Fincorps.He’s of the view that the Inst is quite good .
* If the grapevine is to be believed backdoor entry is rampant .Infact some go to the extent of saying that if you are willing to pay a few more lakhs you are in . I came across several such aspirants who are of the same opinion . And yes, I agree with them .
One of my friends who was quite disheartened at not being able to get through the GDPI session was told the following by the Adms head of a Top-notch MBA preparatory coaching inst – oh, just forget it. They have got their parameters all wrong. They are all infact you should be happy .It’s definitely not the end of road for you.
Final Word – With so many B-schools mushrooming all over , the aspirants are a confused lot .IMT, undoubtedly ranks amongst the best in the business .If you could clear the ent-exam and GDPI do not have any second thoughts , just go for it . But if you fail to get a bearth , you need not be disheartened or think that you are not good enough for the premier insts.There are several other equally good Institutes .It’s definitely not the end of road for you.