Indian Institute of Management Calcutta has signed MoUs with Florida International University and Paris School of Business for student exchange programme.
"We have recently signed MoUs with Florida International University from USA and Paris School of Business from France as part of STEP (student exchange programme) to enable our students learn how to work in teams composed of people from different nationalities and also pick up the nuances of different cultures," an IIM-C spokesperson said today.
The orientation session for STEP for the academic year 2017- 2018 was held at the campus recently,
"In today's world, it is essential that managers adjust and adapt quickly to diverse situations and be flexible enough to work with teams spread across the globe. A reasonable familiarity with foreign culture and etiquette gains considerable importance in such an environment," Professor Biju Paul Abraham, Dean (Academic), IIM Calcutta, said.
"We aim to make each one of our graduating students adept at dealing with an increasingly globalised world," he said.
The IIM-C already have exchange programme with four partner schools including Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
The number of incoming students for STEP for the academic year 2017-2018 has been 71, from last 64 in the last academic year.
The number of outgoing students from the institute for the academic year 2017-2018 is 115 while the figure was 92 in the academic year 2016-2017.
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