Hi,
I need your genuine feed back. My younger brother has got admission to Indian institute of planning and management, delhi. I've lot og bad things as well as some goo things about IIPM. If you have any first hand knowledge about IIPM, the placement scenarion in 2004, then please let me know about the same.

Thanks for your help,
Alok

hi

ignore all those bullshit ads in newspapers and those stupid rankings.

tipm is just a fraud

Once upon a time there was a pony-tailed guy called Arindam Chaudhary who had a famous dad who had worked at IIMB and was on some planning commission n stuff!

So our Arindam decided to leverage dad's legacy and his ponytail to start IIPM - an effort to achieve his great Indian dream!

Currently the dream is something like this:
1) You have IIPM centres at every major city... all it takes is a few rooms in some fancy building. These buildings are splashed across full page ads in Education Times with Mr. Pony Tail and his best selling book.
2) IIPM's admission process is a farce. Almost everyone who applies gets selected coz they have so many centres and they squeeze somewhere around 250-300 students per bacth. They also run multiple batches like Autumn Batch, Spring Batch etc.
3) I visited their Delhi centre for a fest. Imagine a Bschool fest with competitions like dancing, rangoli, collage making. The faculty is mostly IIPM passouts and most of them can be mistaken for students. Infact girl students were teasing each other about their male teachers. I dont think anyone of them knows the first thing about management education
4) Infra wise I dont know if IIPM has heard of a full-fledged computer centre, the library was nowhere to be seen. Its only that building.. thats it!

And here's why I am writing all this piece. Coz I hate Arindam Chaudhary... he makes more money than me even though I am from a top 10 B school. I hate his genius.. fooling so many students for so long takes a lot of cretivity and ingenuity. The fees are steep.. about 4 lakhs and there are enough rich kids around who will pay just to get that MBA!

Pay some survey people.. get a no. 4 ranking on something called Industry interface and spalsh it in media. The gullible idiots out there wont read the fine print.

The IIPM brochure looks like that of a Honeymoon resort... so no wonder Arindam has catered to his target audience.. rich kids who r looking for a 'good' time for 2 years!

But then so many middle-class n poor students are also falling into this trap! But then those who do.. deserve it!

As for Placements... half the rich kids go back to their businesses... the rest join call centres or end up job less. The rest join IIPM as faculty I think! Boy the government should ban such places. I am sure they dont have a single Phd on their faculty, screw the phd they wudnt have one faculty with more than 5 years experience.

Meanwhile.. Arindam decided to fool more people by making shit movies lie "Rok sako toh.. rok lo"!

Hi,
I need your genuine feed back. My younger brother has got admission to Indian institute of planning and management, delhi. I've lot og bad things as well as some goo things about IIPM. If you have any first hand knowledge about IIPM, the placement scenarion in 2004, then please let me know about the same.

Thanks for your help,
Alok

Hi Alok

I would suggest your brother to take up MBA entrances again this yr and get into a decent b-school. As of now, let him continue in IIPM just for the back-up sake, but believe me after getting into a better b-school, its worth leaving...after all its a question abt his career and not job.

regards

hi

im an IIPM student in my 2nd yr hoing a dual spec. in fin and mkting.
so i think i would be the best judge about the topic.

alok dont worry about ur bro if he is reasonably good and hardworkin. enough companies come and all people who deserve a placement get 1. rest as my frend ashbisu already mentioned dont need.

i again agree when he says the admission proc. is pretty easy. but then again nobody wouldve come to iipm if he got into the IIMs.

ill continue later right now ive got to go to a seminar to b conducted by Prof. Mark de Rond ( Cambridge Univ.)

ciao

until later

hello friends,

Sub: Genuine feedback to a genuine worry.

Since the thread is still alive...i would like to draw attention of all the prospective students.As my friends have earlier clarified it explicitly...i would like to draw the attention of all MBA aspirees to read the 31st July,2005 issue of Outlook Money-Page-17 wherein they have explicitly published a notice to the student community.
IIPM is a blacklisted institute and the ratings have been withdrawn.further since Mr Pony Tail has made fast bucks so it's not a big deal to invite few ppl for guest lectures.....believe me the industry perception is negative...read it as NEGATIVE......
Anyhow i understand the sentiments of the current students and the alumini to stand with the institute......and kinda appreciate them too.......otherwise mostly it's seen that when the ship is sinking rats are the first one to jump out of it(no offence intended).
And further anybody who wants an opinion should check for themselves...atleast the press is responsible enough (Outlook people) to advertise these withdrawl of rankings issue again and again for the benefit of student community.

Cheers

Aryan
proud to be a NON-IIPMite
[/quote]ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD