IMT started in 1980 in Ghaziabad, a town near Delhi in UP(25 km from Delhi approx)...The institute has its own 17 acre campus complete with Hostel...Computer labs...Library...Mess...Conference halls and other facilities.
The faculty comprises of distinguished academicians and industry leaders...Senior professionals from organisations like Sriram, Bharti, Tatas, IFCI, ITC etc teach here...the exposure which students get from lectures by these industry professionals help them to take on challenging roles after they pass out...The Director of the institute is Mr Ashok Ghosh who has held senior positions in the industry prior to IMT(He was with RPG group and with UN)
The board of governors constitute eminent industrialists like Mr Vijay Mallaya...Mr Rajan Nanda...Mr Vikram Thapar...Mr V K Modi etc
The institute offers MBA and MCA courses and also offers some courses in distance learning...They have recently started a course in PM and IR...The MBA and MCA courses are residential and one has to stay in the hostel
The alumni has been placed in reputed companies like...HLL..Pepsi...Samsung...ICICI...GE...Lintas etc....Some students got placed in oveseas asignments with starting salary of 100000USD...Ex-students of this institute are today well known names in the industry....Mr Rajeev Karwal(CEO-Electrolux)...Shuchi Sarkar(Compaq)...
The institute has tied up with Cisco and operates Cisco Networking Acdemy....They also have a tie up with GE and offer a managemnt program for GE employees...The institute also offers a global MBA program in association with a leading US University...
How do you get admission....They have an entrance test sometime in December(the process starts in September...admission forms and all)....For more information visit the site...imt.edu
So when applying next time round for management programs...check out IMT...You could be a CEO in 10 years time