Expanding IIMS

IIM(T) to open on June 15 - The Economic Times: "IRUCHIRAPPALLI: The hallowed portals of an IIM will be more accessible to aspiring business students of this city when (IIM-T) opens on June 15 this year.

All infrastructure is in place, 12 faculty members have been chosen after stringent selection parameters and admissions had commenced, with 27 students already being chosen, Dr Prafulla Agnihotri, Director of IIM-T said.

The institute, to be inaugurated on June 15, would have a total of 60 students in the first batch, both boys and girls.

Agnihotri said the faculty would be in the institute for start of the first batch of its PostGraduate programme on Finance and Accounting, Marketing, Strategic Management, Operation and Qualitative Analysis, HR and Organisational Behaviour, Management Information System.

Though the board had sanctioned recruitment of 20 members, Agnihotri said he planned to have four or five more.

On the fee structure, he said it would cost Rs 10 lakh for the two-year programme, which included tuition fee, course materials, basic books and case study books."