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Amid the pandemic, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) admitted a new batch of students to its two-year full-time MBA programmes on Saturday.
IIM Bangalore admitted 488 students in the PGP Programme and 46 in PGP in Business Analytics in the present batch.
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The director of the institute, Rishikesha T. Krishnan stated, "The current time has seen a lot of previous assumptions on business, management and economy being questioned.”
Moreover, he highlighted the fact that during the prevailing time, students could write new playbooks in business and management.
During the inauguration programme for the current academic year, Rishikesha T. Krishnan also mentioned that analysts expect the economy would recover by mid-2021 and there will be growth in manufacturing with new schemes.
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About the New Batch
Out of the 488 students of the PGP programme, 423 are of engineering background; 146 are female and 342 are male; the average work experience is approximately two years and the average age is 25.
While for PGP BA, out of 46, there are 86.96 per cent males and 13.04 per cent females; the average age is 23; the highest number of students is from the engineering background-53 per cent from the IITs / NITs and the rest from the recognized universities.
“A total of 54 per cent of the batch had some work experience, while 45 per cent had no experience,” said Padmini Srinivasan, Chair of the Master of Business Administration program.
“In the new batch, apart from students from different parts of the country, two students from Korea will also join,” confirmed Padmini Srinivasan, Chair of the Master of Business Administration program.
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