IIM-L completes 25 years

Updated on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Lucknow: The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow celebrated the 25th year of its inception at an impressive function in the campus on Sunday.

The silver jubilee address was delivered by the President of JK Organisation, Padma Bhushan, Hari Shankar Singhania who has been the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIM-L in the past.

Director IIM-L, Dr Devi Singh who has had a long association with the institute and is serving as its Director for the second consecutive term delivered the welcome address and also presented awards to meritorious students.

Large number of present and past students, faculty and leading lights from various walks of life were present at the function which included an exhibition tracing the 25 year long journey of the premier management institute.

Within a shot span of 25 years IIM-L which initially started out from rented premises in 1984 has emerged as a global management school. With its aim of improving management of corporate, non-corporate, and public systems IIM-L has achieved its space among the top-most management institutes in the country.

It has achieved 100 per cent placements since 2001 and also started the PGP Agri-business management course in 2005. Its work on large number of research projects and consultancy assignments has contributed immensely to various sectors.

It is also the first among all IIMs to have started an additional campus at Noida in 2005, which is completely dedicated to executive education. The Noida campus conducts courses like Working Managers Programme, International Programme in Management for Executives etc.

IIM-Lucknow also has International Academic Collaborations with 22 partner institutions in Europe and North America.

IIM-L completes 25 years

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