Indian Institute of Management Lucknow

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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Established:	1984
Type:	Education and Research Institution
Director:	Dr. Devi Singh
Staff:	100
Students:	600
Location:	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus:	Urban, 200 acres (0.81 km²)
Website:	www.iiml.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (also referred to as IIM Lucknow or IIML), was established in 1984, by the Government of India, as a national level school of excellence in management science. It was the fourth Indian Institute of Management to be established in India after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, and IIM Bangalore. It is situated at the outskirts of the historic and culturally rich city of Lucknow.

It is considered among the top 5 B schools in India. Over 170,000 people apply for IIML through the Common Aptitude Test each year for roughly 300 seats^{[citation needed]}.

1 Campus
2 Students
3 Student Activities
4 Library
5 Pedagogy
6 Noted Alumni
7 External links

[edit] Campus

The Institute has state-of-the-art computing and class-room facilities, supported by an extensive library of books, journals, films, and databases. IIML academic programmes are fully residential. The serene and pollution free campus is well equipped to meet all the essential requirements of its residents. The campus is spread across 200 acres (0.81 km²) located on the outskirts of Lucknow off the Lucknow-Sitapur road. IIML also has a satellite campus, located at NOIDA, developed primarily for executive education.

Arjun Rath at IIM Lucknow entrance

IIM Lucknow campus

Campus in the evening

[edit] Students

A substantive number (about 50% of the batch) of students come with prior work experience. More than 80% of students are from engineering background coming mainly from premier engineering colleges of India like IITs, NITs, DCE, NSIT, BITS, MGIT etc.

[edit] Student Activities

Various committees and clubs are responsible for all the student related activities inside the campus. The six core committees are Placecom, Manfest, Index, Alcom, Media Relations (MRC) and Industry Interaction (IIC).

Other Committees include Bhavishya: The Social Initiatives Group, [Team Synapse], Consulting Club, PRISM-The Marketing Cell, Innovision, Student Exchange Committee Members (STEX), SIGFI(Special Interest Group in Finance), OIG(Operations Interest Group), Abhiyan-The Entrepreneurship Cell, Oculus, Infiniti, Intangibles

Besides committees there are three different clubs namely 3.4 (The college band), Choreo Club, Credence Capital- Student run mutual funds.

[edit] Library

The state of art library has a collection of about 35,000 books, 600 periodicals,900 E-Journals in different areas of management embracing social, political and economic environment. It remains open round-the-clock, all days of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays except for gazetted holidays.

[edit] Pedagogy

The institute follows a mixed pedagogy, imbibing both theory and cases in the curriculum.

[edit] Noted Alumni

KV Pratap - Chief Economic Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
Kamal Gianchandani - Director, Emerging Markets,Credit Derivatives,Citigroup HK
Baburaj Pillai - Managing Director, Arohi Asset Management, Singapore
Shashank Sinha - President, Sara Lee, Singapore & Malaysia
Amit Banati - CFO, Cadburys Schweppes, Asia Pacific
Shailesh Jejurikar - Marketing Head, P&G, Australasia & India
Dhimant Shah - Director, Emerging Markets Credit Derivates, Citigroup, HK
Vandita Pant - Executive Director, Head of Strategy, Global Markets, ABN Amro Bank, London
Shanmughan Manjunath
Tarun Tripathi (Class of 2002) - Head, Marketing and External communication, Yash Raj Films
Neeraj Gambhir (Class of 1995) – Head, Proprietary Trading Group, ICICI Bank
Anjali Mullatti (Class of 1993) – Co-Founder, Catalyst Consulting
Vipul Sant (Class of 1989) – Director, License Compliance, Microsoft India
Prabhat Awasthi (Class of 1994) - Head, Equities & Research, Lehman Brothers
Jatin Suryawanshi (Class of 1994)- Head, US Algorithmic Trading, UBS Investment Bank, New York
Gaurav Sabnis (Class of 2004)- Famous Indian blogger (see The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) advertising controversy
Rahul Singh (Class of 1995) - Director, India Asia-Pacific Equity Research, Citigroup