At 32%, IIM-A's incoming batch has the highest female ratio ever

28% of 395 PGP students, half of agri-business batch are women, up from 21% and 46% earlier

The incoming 2017-19 batch of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has seen the highest ratio yet of females in both the postgraduate programme in management (PGP) and the PGP-FABM, the agri-business management course.

The incoming PGP batch also has the highest ratio in 15 years of non-engineers, at 32 per cent.

About 28 per cent of the PGP batch of 395 people are females, up from 21 per cent in the earlier one. The FABM one has seen a jump from 46 per cent earlier to 50 per cent of the batch size of 46.