Foreign students double at IIM-Ahmedabad PGPX

The number of international students in the new batch of one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) has doubled at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Out of total 85 students, 12 are international students with six foreign citizens. Last year, the institute had six international students in the programme. The institute has also witnessed almost double women students this year compared to the last year.

The eighth batch of IIMA’s PGPX (2013-14) was inaugurated on April 7 by IIM-A in-charge director Ajay Pandey. The average GMAT score of the batch of 85 student is 711 with average age of 34 years and average total work experience of 10 years two months. The average international work experience of the batch is about three years.

The batch has 11 women students, almost double than six in previous year. Of the 85 students, 24 students are are residing outside India, spread across ten countries while 76 students have international exposure in terms of work and studies. The batch has 37 students who have a higher qualification (professional, Masters) than bachelors. Also, 16 students have obtained their degrees from outside their home country. Engineers are dominating the PGPX batch as well with 68 (80%) students have engineering degree. Total 21 students have graduated from IIT/NITs, according to a release issued by IIM-A.

The students have worked in sectors like airline, travel, BPO, defense, education, energy and power, financial services, government services, healthcare, hospitality services, infrastructure, IT and IT services, management consultancy, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing process, media, NGOs, retail, shipping and telecom. As many as 29 students have work experience in IT and IT services sector.

Source: The Economic Times (Online Edition), April 8, 2013

>IIM-A’s sixth batch of PGPX the largest ever

>The sixth batch of the one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) was welcomed to the institute at a function on Monday. The number of students has significantly increased this year, making it the largest PGPX batch ever.

The batch is dominated by students from the Information Technology (IT) sector. Chairperson of PGPX Satish Deodhar said, “We have received students from diverse backgrounds. The batch has students from different industries like financial services, telecom, manufacturing, healthcare and public sector. Though, the maximum number of students in the batch is from IT.”

The number of students, which was 86 in the fifth batch (2010-11), has gone up to 101 this year (2011-12) for the sixth batch. Talking about the significant increase in the batch size this year, a member of the admission committee of PGPX said, “This year, after PGPX was ranked the best in Asia, a large number of students have joined the programme.”

The profile of the new batch of PGPX has also improved over the previous years. While the average GMAT score of the batch last year was 712, the score has increased to 714 this time. The average international work experience has also increased from four years and four months of the previous batch to four years and six months. About 40 students have come from abroad to join the programme. The welcome event was inaugurated by Dean, IIM-A BH Jajoo, and apart from the programme participants, faculty members and parents of the participants also attended the event.

Source: The Times of India, April 12, 2011