The International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, enjoys the pride of being India’s first corporate-sponsored B-school. IMI is placed today as one of the best B-schools in India and is well known for the superior quality of the intellectual capital that it houses.
It now strives to be a well-recognised institute across the globe. This is what makes me feel proud of being a part of the IMI fraternity.

The self-contained campus located in the heart of the country’s capital has various programmes in the management field. The post graduate programme of IMI has been rated highly amongst the B-schools in India by the industry. The Post Graduate Programme in International Management is acknowledged globally by management institutions and corporate organisations alike. A testimonial to this is the number of international students that we have on campus (currently, we have around 12-15 international students from France, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, etc.). The cultural mix that IMI has on its campus provides a unique experience and one that I’ll cherish for life.

The recent batch includes students with years of quality work-experience with companies like P&G, GE, Delphi, TCS, General Motors, etc. Having a large number of people with work experience provides an opportunity for out-of-class learning. Students who opt for live projects where they work on a particular project for an organisation while studying, bring in their fresh experience to the classroom discussions, thereby making them more meaningful. Moreover, there is a series of guest lectures conducted for the students wherein we have people coming from the industry to address the students. For example, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Mohammad Yunus visited the campus recently.

The student culture at IMI is also at par to the best of the management institutes globally. The students are engaged in various activities and work as members of various student committees like the media cell, admissions committee, placement committee, HR club, cultural secretary association, alumni committee, movie club, and others. The students organise various socio-cultural events like "Hindi Diwas", blood donation camps, camps for deprived children, etc.

Life at campus is a mix of hard work and parties. We at IMI believe in the concept of "Work Hard and Party Harder". Let’s peep into life of an IMI student for one day. He gets up early in the morning and goes to the beautiful and scenic Sanjay Van just behind the college for jogging. He comes back and attends a class where he presents a case analysis. Post lunch he does some committee work, plays volleyball / badminton, does assignments and then goes for dinner around 9.00 pm. Post dinner he goes to the library, studies in his group, does his live project for a while, checks his official mail if there are some official announcements for classes, etc., goes down to the amphitheatre and chats with friends who may generally be international students and discusses why Saddam was given gallows or why India is deemed to become a superpower. And finally sleeps. IMI is the name of that experience which the students would strive to preserve for life.

All in all, IMI is a rising giant with a vision of leading the world in terms of not only management education but also by being an organisation with a culture that sets the standards for others to follow.

Concluded.

* Contributed by -
Shivanku Misra (Campus Associate), is a first year student of PGP 2006-08 programme at International Management Institute, New Delhi. He is the cultural secretary & president of the media cell at IMI.