As admissions for entry into the country's managment schools near completion, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will end up having a majority of male engineering graduates on their rolls.
Traditionally, too, all IIMs tend to have around 90 per cent students who are males and engineering graduates. The number of women is highest in the general category followed the ST, then SC and OBC-non creamy layer categories. The largest number of female candidates are from the engineering stream (80 per cent) followed by commerce and arts streams.
For instance, at IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) which has offered admissions to about 95 per cent engineers for its two-year post graduate programme (PGP) 2010-12 course, as compared to 91 per cent last year. Unlike last year, when the institute had 50 women comprising 16 per cent of the lot studying on campus, this year the number has dropped to 11 per cent.
The institute made a total of 391 offers for the incoming batch of which around 62 per cent (243 candidates) has a work experience of at least one year. The selected students include 369 engineering students, 12 science students, nine commerce students and one arts student. The institute has an intake of 385 seats this year, which have been filled with 182 general quota students, 104 non creamy other backward class (OBC), 58 schedule caste (SC), 29 schedule tribe (ST) and 12 differently abled (DA) quota.
The selected candidates will have to accept the offers by May 17. While classes begin on June 21, the preparatory classes for students who need improvement in a few skills will begin by the end of May.
This year, though, IIM Kozhikode appears to have bettered its score of female students. IIM-K's Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in management for the year 2010-2012 enrolled 42 students of which around 30 per cent are women. "In the total list of offers made, the number of engineers has come down to 85 per cent from the usual 90 per cent with commerce and arts streams making up the rest. There are six candidates with medical degrees, too, in the list," says Debashis Chatterjee, Director IIM-K.
This year, 11 offers were made for overseas candidates at IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) of which eight are learnt to have accepted the offers. Last year, the institute had only one overseas candidate in its final batch of students. Subhashish Gupta, chairperson of admissions at IIM-B says there were no particular reasons for the increase in number of overseas candidates this year and said that six overseas students had been admitted two years back.
Overseas candidates are Indian nationals or foreigners with a valid passport or travel document residing outside the India and not in a position to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management at various centers in India. These candidates are required to take the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Their final selection is based on performance in GMAT, scholastic achievement, work experience, and three letters of reference.
IIM-B has made a total of 415 offers this year for its intake of 375 seats. The offers have to be accepted by May 17. Engineering students are expected to form a majority of successful applicants like every year. Classes will begin by the end of June for the programme while the preparatory programme will begin by the end of May. The institute has decided to increase the fee from Rs 11.5 lakh last year to Rs 13 lakh for the incoming batch of 2010.
The proposed batch intake for the IIM Lucknow is 419, for which the classes begin on June 28. "The details of the admissions for the PGP 2010-12 batch will be available only after June 30. The preparatory course for the course begins in the first week of June," says Himanshu Rai, chairperson-admissions at IIM-L.
At Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, 240 students have been enrolled for the regular PGP in management along with 60 for PGP(HR) and another 30 for PGP in international management. The institute came out with its second list on Friday and expects the admission process to be over by the first week of June.
The admission process at Institute of Management Technology (IMT) is still on but Arun Mohan Sherry, Chairman (Joint Admission Committee) of IMT's Ghaziabad, Nagpur and Dubai campuses says the intake of students at the Ghaziabad campus this year will be for 400 seats, which is the same as last year. However, its Nagpur campus has seen a 20 per cent increase from 300 students to 360 this year.
(Additional reporting by Archana M Prasanna from Bangalore & Kirtika Suneja from New Delhi)
