New courses at IIMs

New Delhi: The six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will start more courses and increase their intake in several existing ones from the coming academic year. This follows a directive from the human resources ministry to broadbase their activities in sync with the changing economy.

IIM Ahmedabad will have an executive MBA programme with 50 seats. The other programmes now being offered are: global managers (one-year, 30 seats) and leading and managing (one year, 80 seats). It will increase capacity in its existing fellow programmes in management and development to 20 and 40 seats against 15 and 30 seats respectively the present.

On the other hand, IIM Bangalore will increase the number of seats in its post-graduate programmes in management and software enterprise management to 260 and 150 against the existing 180 and 120.

Similarly, IIM Kolkata will have a one-year programme for the development of entrepreneurs, with 300 seats.

The newer IIMs, too, are adding on courses. For instance IIM Lucknow's Noida campus will have 50-seats for a six-month certificate programme in management for defence officers. Moreover, its post-graduate programme in agri-business management will admit 60 students against the existing 30.

IIM Kozhikode will begin a 100-seat executive MBA programme via the distant education module and will raise to 180 the number of seats in its post-graduate programme in management against the existing 120.

IIM, Indore will increase the number of seats in its executive post-graduate programme in management to around 60 compared with the current level of 20.