IMT Ghaziabad- Great Campus life, placement and academic

I chose PGDM-Full time as wanted to do 2 years full-time residential course as I wanted to shift from the operation domain to the marketing domain. Faculty to student ratio is 1:18. Our faculties hold PhD degrees from reputed universities with a great amount of work experience from leading national and foreign multinational companies. The enriching academic and work experience of faculties helped to make our classroom learning interesting by linking the course syllabus with real-time examples and interesting discussions. The teaching method involves Case-based learning, and group discussions which helps students to think critically and learn to think from a different perspective and peer learning. We have term exams after 10-11 weeks and exams can be rated 8/10 as they involved case-based questions which are of moderate to difficult level to judge our classroom learning.

Summer internship saw the participation of 120+ organizations with an increase of 40% of the average stipend to Rs 1.44 lacs with an average top 10% and 20% of the batch with Rs. 2.4 lacs and 1.95 lacs for 2 months. The highest stipend of 4 lacs in 2 months. Companies visited Pernod Ricard, American Express, L'oreal, Bajaj, Mahindra and Mahindra, Cisco, Microsoft and Marico.

The final placement process saw 150+ companies with 77 new recruiters. Consulting: BAIN, Deloitte, KPMG etc. FMCG: Reckitt, Pernod Ricard, NIVEA, Marico, Asian Paints etc BFSI: HDFC, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley etc. IMT Ghaziabad placement 2023 surpassed last year's record with an average package of Rs. 17.35 lakhs and a median package of Rs. 16 lakhs per annum. The highest international package is Rs.65.6 lakhs per annum and the highest domestic package of Rs. 34 lakhs per annum. IMT has a great reputation in national and foreign corporate companies and with vast alumni base which helps to build broad networking and will be helpful in getting employment opportunities in multinational companies.

Fees Structure of IMT Ghaziabad: 1st year Rs 11,03,000 and 2nd Year Rs 8,50,000. Total fees are Rs.19,53,000. Scholarship (Smt Leela Nath memorial)- All female candidates for the PGDM course will receive a scholarship of 25% on the academic component. Financial Assistance & Job: Short-term projects are available with paid stipend offers

IMT has an annual fest- PASSION, a 3 days annual fest with dance, singing and case study competitions along with band performances which are conducted in the month of December. Sports Fest- Chakravyuh, a flagship event of 72- hours events which all B-school fraternity looks forward to. Sports- IMT has best-in-class infrastructure for basketball, volleyball, football, lawn Tennis and Cricket. IMT library has a good collection of books, E-journal collections, E-magazines, The Ken, Readers Festival- Annual Book Exhibition IMT has student-run committees like Student Affairs and Welfare Council, academic, Sports, Placements, International Relations, E-Cell, and cultural Committees. Clubs- Markup, RACE, THE EYE, Enactus, FINESSE, MADF and many more. Magazines- Markup magazine, Finnacle, IRC maganie

IMT applicants for PGDM require a minimum of 3 years of bachelor's degree or equivalent with 50% aggregate marks in any discipline. IMT accepts entrance exams: CAT, XAT and GMAT. I took CAT 2021 examination and scored 95.58%. IMT application form can be filled out from IMT's official website for Rs 2000 with the last day to apply being 31st, January every year. The Admission process involves to fill the application form, and submitting documents, Selection process with 30 min critical thinking test followed by a personal interview. The final merit list is formed with a cumulated weighted average which has academic scores, work experience, entrance test scores and scores obtained in the CT-PI process.

Critical thinking Written test: A 30 minutes written test with topic related to current affairs like Personal Interview: Interview involve 20-30 mins with question related to academics, work-experience, questions related to course to be selected like marketing, finance etc and current affairs. Preparation for these rounds required newspaper reading, knowledge of current affairs, domain like marketing, finance related theory preparations.