BIMTECH

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Birla Institute Of Management Technology (BIMTECH), established in 1988 is an educational institution in India. BIMTECH's campus is located in Greater Noida and a city-centre in New Delhi.

The Institute was established under the aegis Birla Academy of Art and Culture. The Institute offers seven courses (Business Management, International Business, Insurance and Risk Management, Retailing & Merchandising Management and Entrepreneurship & Family Business). Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi is Director of BIMTECH.

Birla Institute Of Management Technology
Motto: Competing For The Future
Established: 1988
Type: Non Profit (Run by a Private Trust) Institute
Endowment: INR 10 crore
President: Syt B.K. Birla
Vice-Chancellor: H. Chaturvedi(Director)
Dean: Prof. Shriprakash
Director: H. Chaturvedi
Faculty: 45 full-time(resident), 150 visiting
Staff: ~50
Undergraduates: 0
Postgraduates: ~650
Doctoral students: ~25
Location: Greater Noida, NCR (National Capital), India
Nickname: Bimtechian
Affiliations: AICTE, Govt. Of India
Website: http://www.bimtech.ac.in/

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[edit] History

The Institute was founded by Dr. (Mrs) Sarala Birla, Chairperson of Birla Academy of Art and Culture and Syt. B. K. Birla, chairperson of B. K. Birla Group of companies. Mr. R N Jaju is the founding Chairman of the Institute. And Late Dr. C. B. Gupta was the founding Director. The Birla family is one of the India's wealthiest business families.

[edit] Courses

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)
  • Insurance & Risk Management (FT) programme
  • Retailing & Merchandising (FT) programme

[edit] Post Graduate Diploma in International Business(PGDIB)

It is a two-year, AICTE-approved, full time program to cope with the challenges never to be faced to

  • Understand complexity in the field of international business
  • Train the participants on how to identify new and existing opportunities in the area of international business and explore them.
  • Manage global business and trade.

[edit] MBA (Insurance) & PGDIRM

This Course was launched in the year 2000 by the Centre for Insurance and Risk Management (CIRM). Accredited by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), Govt. of India, the course has an intake of 120 students.

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Insurance and Risk Management
    • One year-Full time
  • Master's in Insurance Business Management
    • Two Year - Full time
  • Doctorate in Insurance

[edit] PGDM(RM)

The institute in response to the growing need of skilled manpower in the rapidly expanding organized retail industry started the following programme from 2002 :

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Retailing & Merchandising Management,
    • Two Year-Full time.

This is the first Retail Management Programme in India which got the approval from AICTE.

[edit] MEFB

  • Masters in Entrepreneurship & Family Business,
    • One year-Full time.

[edit] Faculty

BIMTECH has over 45 full-time faculty , and on a daily and yearly basis, about 10 and 150 respectively visiting faculty.

[edit] Student Memberships

BIMTECH encourages students to actively participate in all its activities. Some of the leading student member clubs are :-

  • FINWIZ CLUB (related to finance)
  • PLACECOMM (Placement Committee)
  • I.I.C. (Industry Interaction Cell).

[edit] Publications

Most of the institute's research work is published in the form of popular writing, study reports, journals, research papers, interviews, newsletters etc. The institute publishes three bi-annual journals and a bi-monthly newsletter. The Journals of the Institute attract research papers from all over the world. The journals cover topic from general management, 2006 specific fields of management, as also insurance and allied areas like risk management. BIMTECH also claims to have started the first national report on insurance industry known as "India Insurance Report".

The following are the journals and national reports published by the institute.

  • Business Perspectives
  • Journal of Insurance & Risk Management
  • Indian Retail Review
  • India Insurance Report
  • Retailia [1]

[edit] Infrastructure

BIMTECH's campus
BIMTECH's campus

Lecture rooms, conference halls and the 'U'-shaped lecture theatres are well-equipped and air conditioned to promote interactive classes, seminars and work shops as well as large conferences and major international symposia. The entire campus has, through WiFi, enabled Internet access at all the places within the campus.

[edit] Residence and Food

BIMTECH offers only residential programmes at Master's level. Hostel rooms are as per the apartment system, each apartment has four separate rooms with a common recreational room and a space for kitchen. Common recreational room are shared by four people and this room has got 10/100 Ethernet connections, a television and a refrigerator. The hostels are centrally air contortioned with full power backup and are well equipped with necessary furniture, telephone, water coolers, refrigerators, recreational facilities like TV and indoor games. The mess facility is offered in the hostel itself. Internet connectivity is provided in each room of the hostel.

[edit] Health, Sports and Recreation

The health services are provided in the campus. Any major health problem which is out of the expertise of the campus medical officer is taken care of by the nearby multi-specialty hospital. The gymnasium and sport centers cater to the recreational needs of the student and staff.

[edit] Communication

The campus is WiFi enabled, have paid telephone booths for national and international calls and faxes.

[edit] Tuck Shop, Cafeteria & Other Services

Campus has a Tuck Shop for purchase of routine utility and other requirements. It also has shop for stationery. The services of Laundry, Fruit, Vendor, Milk Vendor, Hair Stylist are available on campus.

[edit] Transportation

The institute has its leased bus. Transportation from the institute or hostels to Delhi for students is available.

[edit] Library Resources

The library is operational for more than 16 hours in a day and is planning to offer round the clock services. The library has a collection of over 10,000 titles of books and nearly 200 International and national journals. The institute is also a member of DELNET, which provides ready access to libraries of leading institutions from National Capital Region. Library is actively seeking to augment its international journal resource base by being member of EBSCO web based electronic journals database, which allows access to 4000 international journals of repute. Specialized software for data related to industries and economies are part of learning resources.

[edit] I.T. Resources

The campus is WiFi enabled and also provides 600 terminals to connect at various locations throughout the campus. There are two computer labs with 100 terminals in the academic block and individual network facility in the hostel rooms.

[edit] Position in Indian Business-School Rankings & Achievements

  • 12th in the Top 50 Private B-Schools, OUTLOOK 2007. [2]
  • 12th in the Top 50 Private B-Schools, OUTLOOK 2006. [3]
  • Achieved 100 percent placement for all the programmes.
  • Ranked 4th nationwide in recruiter's satisfaction, Outlook 2004.
  • Ranked 7th among private sector B-schools by Business Today, 2002.
  • 12th in the country, AC Nielsen ORG MARG B-school, survey, Business Today, 2005 [4]
  • 17th in the country, AC Nielsen ORG MARG B-school survey, Business Today, 2003.
  • 17th in the country, AC Nielsen ORG MARG B-school survey, Business Today, 2006. [5]
  • 24th in the country, OUTLOOK 2004.
  • Identified as "One of the eleven bright private B-schools in the country" by Education World.[citation needed]
  • Ranked 15th nationwide in recruiter's satisfaction, Outlook-Sept.2003.

[edit] References

  1. ^ BBimtech Retail. Bimtech Retail.
  2. ^ Outlook survey 07. Outlook survey 07.
  3. ^ Outlook survey 06. Outlook survey 06.
  4. ^ Business Today, 2005. Business Today, 2005.
  5. ^ Business Today, 2006. Business Today, 2006.