Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

New Academic Block & Library, IMT Ghaziabad
Motto	Growing Intellectually : Lead the Future
Type	Unaided - Private Business School
Established	1980
President	Kamal Nath
Dean	Dr. Surinder Batra
Director	-
Academic staff	~ 50 (core) & ~ 35 (visiting)
Postgraduates	600
Doctoral students	15
Location	Ghaziabad , Uttar Pradesh , India
Campus	Fully residential
Nickname	IMT
Website	IMT.edu

Institute of Management Technology abbreviated as IMT, is a premier Business School with its main campus at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in India.

IMT is a fully autonomous university and offers several post graduate, doctorate and executive education programmes in management. In addition to its main academic programmes IMT also offers distance learning and collaborative programmes.

IMT Ghaziabad is especially renowned for its marketing related courses and has been ranked 13th by Business Today (2015 rankings). Apart from this it is well known for its International Linkages and has been ranked 5th in the same by CNBC- TV18 (2013 rankings).

History

"Dr K.Nath Public Trust" created by Shri Mahendra Nath with the initiative to create and nurture various institutions of vocational education, professional and higher learning. The trust's initiatives include running various libraries and helping the poor students undertake higher education at numerous institutes like Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management. The trust also established Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad under the aegis of Lajpat Rai Educational Society in the year 1980 (AICTE approval in 1983) with the objective to be a leading management institution that contributes to the development of business and society through excellence in grooming leadership, entrepreneurial talent and Research.

Campuses

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Location of IMT business schools

IMT has four campuses: The first one is in Ghaziabad (established in 1980); the second campus is in Nagpur (established in 2004); a third campus in Dubai (established in 2006) and a fourth campus in Hyderabad (established in 2011).

IMT Nagpur has been conceptualized as a centre for corporate excellence. The IMT Dubai campus is primarily for international education.

• IMT Ghaziabad
• IMT Nagpur
• IMT Dubai
• IMT Hyderabad

Ghaziabad Campus

Established in 1980, the Ghaziabad campus is a 14.7-acre (5.9 ha) fully residential campus and is the primary campus of IMT. The institution is strategically located in Ghaziabad, near the national capital.

This campus has many "Centres of Excellence" like the Centre for Global Supply Chain Management. This being the primary campus, it offers all the programmes of IMT.

Academic Block

IMT Ghaziabad has two academic blocks to provide learning space. The old one being two storey and the new one being five storey. It comprises lecture theaters, faculty rooms, computer lab, break-out spaces and a conference room to encourage interactions, exchange of ideas and brainstorming sessions. All lecture theaters are air-conditioned. Modern teaching aids involve tools like multi-media notebooks, LCD and over-head projectors, motorized screens, cordless microphones, speakers, wi-fi access, etc. They are effectively employed to make the learning process more interesting and interactive.

Library

The Library is meant to help academic community to keep abreast with the latest development in their area of activities and also provides the main source for individual research at IMT. The Library works round the clock including Saturdays and Sundays to facilitate access to the students. Library has very rich collection of e-books, e-journals, corporate & industry information and country research databases such as Blackwell Reference Online, ABI/INFORM Complete (Proquest), EBSCO Business Source Complete, Emerald Management, Econlit with Fulltext, Elsevier Science Direct, INFORMS Journal Online, Sage Management Journals, Bloomberg Terminal, [1] Euromonitor International Passport, CMIE (Economic Outlook, India Trades, Industry Analysis Service and Prowess), CRISIL Industry Information Services, World Bank E-Library, IMD World Competitiveness Online, Indiastate.com ref and many more to fulfill research and teaching need of academic community. IMT has license agreement with Harvard Business School Publishing for using case studies, articles, simulations, videos and multimedia cases for classroom teaching. Library also extends their services to outside users (i.e. individual, institutional and corporate membership) with ‘external membership scheme’.

Records as on 04-07-2014

• Books-50,619

 Volumes-39,916
 Complementary-1,469
 E-Books-9,234

• Journals-9,346

 E-Journals-9,121
 Print-206

• Online Database-21
• Newspapers-20
• Bound Volumes-3,000
• Audio, Video, CD, DVD-1,858
• Project Reports-2,967
• Annual Reports-255
• Institutional MBS-04

IT Infrastructure

IMT Ghaziabad’s intranet uses advanced fibre optic cables. It gives a wealth of information via connectivity of 100 Mbit/s to the entire campus including the hostel blocks. IMT Ghaziabad’s Computer Lab is equipped with over 180 multi-media functional computers. The computer lab offers printing, photo-copying and scanning facilities to aid students stay in sync.

Housing

IMT Ghaziabad is a fully residential campus with 10 student-housing blocks and a separate block housing MDP participants. The hostels provide both single and double occupancy, 24 hours internet connectivity, uninterrupted power supply, laundry service and cleaning facility. Other than the main campus at Raj Nagar, IMT Ghaziabad also has a campus on Meerut Road. This campus houses Centre for Distance Learning, boys hostel buildings and mess. Hostel buildings on this campus houses most of the first year PGDM course students.

Recreation

There are various recreational facilities available in the campus both indoor and outdoor. Outdoor sports include cricket, football, volleyball, badminton and basketball and indoor include table tennis, carrom and chess. The campus has a well-equipped gymnasium complete with weights for students. The campus also has an amphitheatre which is seen as the favorite spot with the students and is used for entertainment, performances and open houses. There is a Nescafe stall and a canteen which run round the clock for the students to avail eatables at a reasonable rate. There are student bodies like the cultural committee and sports committee which organize myriad events through the year.

Nagpur Campus

Established in 2004 by Late Shri Mahendra Nath, IMT-N spreads over a sprawling campus of 27 acres in the outskirts of Nagpur. IMT N’s programmes are designed to develop leadership skills to enable students to make informed decisions in complex international environments. The present curriculum of PGDM, PGDM (Finance), PGDM (IT) and PGDM (HR) programmes.

Dubai Campus

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Main Building, IMT Dubai

Founded in 2006, The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Dubai is a premium business school accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research, UAE in September 2007. It is the only Business School of Indian origin to be so accredited.

The institute is located in Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) in a sprawling campus spread over 250,000 square feet. IMT Dubai is a member of premier international accrediting organizations such as International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and European Association for International Education (EAIE).

Hyderabad Campus

Established in 2011, the campus is located at Cherlaguda, near Shamshabad Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana. The campus buildings are separated into Academic Block, Library Building, Dining Hall, Hostels, Faculty Housing, and a Sports Complex including cricket ground, football ground, Basket Ball Court, Tennis Court, Badminton Courts The Learning Resource Center or the central library will be accessible to students, faculty, staff, external members and visiting instructors with electronic databases and Books.

University Rankings

2015:

1. Career360 ranked IMT, 4th best Private B-School in India.

2014:

1. People Matters ranked IMT, 15th Best B-School to study in
2. Career360 ranked IMT, 3rd best Private B-School

2013:

1. IMT Ghaziabad Ranked 3rd in International Exchange Programmes by The NHRDN - People Matters B-school Rankings 2013
2. IMT Ghaziabad Ranked 8th in Overall B-School Ranking, 5th in International Linkages and 7th in Intellectual Capital by CNBC-TV18 Rankings 2013

2012:

1. Zee News India ranked IMT 9th best B- School and 8th best in Infrastructure
2. Business Today ranked IMT 13th best B- School
3. Outlook India ranks IMT-Ghaziabad in top three of India’s private B-Schools

2011:

1. IMT Ghaziabad Ranked 7th overall and 5th in Marketing by Economic Times Rankings 2011
2. IMT Ghaziabad ranked 9th overall by Business India's 'Best B-schools survey 2011

2009:

1. Outlook India ranked IMT 15th in its top 75 Management Institutes of India list

Academics

Admissions

IMT G has a rigorous admission procedure which takes place in a 3-step model. The top 10 percentiles in CAT/XAT/GMAT are given a call for a group discussion in the major cities of the country. The call getters are also based on their profiles. The GD is followed by a personal interview which is taken in most cases by 2 faculty and an alumni. The students having the maximum combined score in GD and PI are then given a final call by the college. However, in 2015, a separate written ability test(WAT) was conducted instead of the group discussion. Rights of admission at all times are reserved by the administration of the college.

Faculty

IMT currently has 70+ core faculty. Apart from permanent faculty, IMT has visiting faculty from industry and other academic institutions. Around 35 visiting faculty are associated with IMT.

Courses

IMT offers following programmes:

• Two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – PGDM-FT (In 2nd yr one can choose among Marketing,HR,IT)
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Finance
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Marketing
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Dual Country Program (DCP)- Student spend first year on Dubai Campus and second year at Ghaziabad.
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Executive
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Part-Time
• Two-year full-time MBA programme
• Doctoral programme (PhD) in Management
• Management Development Programme for Executives
  • General Management Programme for Executives (GMPE)

PGDM is the oldest programme. IMT also caters to the needs of business executives through its three-year part-time postgraduate programme (PGDM P/T). Corporate participants can enroll in the Management Development Programme (MDP) to enhance their business skills and learn managerial decision making. IMT's Fellow Program in Management (FPM) programme provides doctoral-level education in business management and related disciplines.

To cater to the needs of international business managers, IMT has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management – International Business (PGDM-IB) programme.

Distance learning (DLP) and E-learning programmes of IMT are designed for students who are unable to take up a full- or part-time MBA courses.

IMT also undertakes national and international projects that cater to governments, corporations and other organizations.

While the Ghaziabad Campus offers all the courses, the Nagpur, Dubai and Hyderabad campuses offer a selection of the above courses.

Teaching methodology

The entire 2-year PGDM programme of IMT Ghaziabad is based on industry requirements and practices, which were assimilated further, based on inputs from alumni and industry experts. Every session starts with the Pre-foundation programme and Foundation Module which sees more than 20 top corporate leaders who address the incoming students on wide-ranging topics in the first 10–12 days

Faculty of IMT Ghaziabad believes in ‘relearn how to teach’ and, at the same time, an opportunity for the students to ‘relearn how to learn’. This is in line with Professor Srikant Datar’s observations in his book ‘Rethinking the MBA’, which states that students today are much more knowledgeable about the course and can do a lot on their own. So the role of the faculty has to be redefined in terms of ‘leading’ a discussion rather than just ‘telling’. It should also be about leading students into creative work to come up with something more original, leading students to the library and field research, making students capable of sharing with the rest of the class and defending points of view in the classroom. As a result, in addition to case studies, newer methods like simulations are now the part of the curriculum.

All students of IMT Ghaziabad undergo a compulsory simulation programme. As a part of the accreditation process with the global agency AACSB the entire methodology have become structured and documented systematically. Students now have documented assurance of learning.

As opposed to the 2 months Summer Internship Program that all MBA grads undergo, IMT Ghaziabad also has a Long Term SIP (6 months) with a few companies wherein the student gets more exposure with the companies they are interning with.

Student life

IMT Ghaziabad has several student driven clubs and committees. They have faculty members as guides and consultants, though they are actually managed by the students.

Committees

Placement Committee facilitate summer internship and final placement along with some other activities such as industrial visits and guest lectures for students and management development programs for working professionals. The Long Summer Internship Program (LSIP) proved to be a big success as many organizations hired students for a summer internship stint of Five and a half months which was longer than the usual two-month program.

Alumni Relationship Committee forms the bridge between the past and present of IMT. They maintain the ever expanding database of alumni network, whilst keeping abreast of their achievements in various sectors. Various initiatives taken by the committee are Knowledge Konnect, Mentorship Program, Sampark and Short Term Project. Other events include Alumni meets, organizing HR meets before placements and organizing reunions of the alumni.

Cultural Committee focuses on the holistic development of the students and provides them with an opportunity to showcase their talent and to further reach a healthy mix of fun and work while learning along the way. Apart from organizing various workshops for the students, it includes the events like Zest, Passion, Cresendo etc.

Media Relations and Ranking Committee manages media relations and orchestrating the corporate communications message managing IMT’s Public relations through regular releases in the print and visual news media. With the release of admission notification, it acts as a bridge between the institute and the aspirants handling queries, co-ordinating the GD-PI process, managing the Facebook and PaGaLGuY forums. It publishes official IMT newsletter "The Perspective" and manages the official IMT Blog "The Voice of IMT", capturing the take of the institute on the happenings of the campus as well as that of the outside world, reaching out to current students, alumni, faculty and the corporate world. It also manages and updates the content on the institute's website.

International Relations Committee works at three different levels. The level one is an exchange program that includes one or two term exchange with partners. The level two exchange programs are STEP’s (Short term exchange programs) where student from partner schools come to IMT, Ghaziabad for a short period of two weeks, for intensive sessions of classroom lectures, industrial and cultural visits and projects. Level 3 are collaborative programs where in students from IMT and partner institutes work together on field practicums, short term consulting assignments and live projects. It also organizes Spanish, French and German classes, for 3 months typically from October to December, for the students, to help them prepare better for their exchange programs.

Mess Committee strives to satisfy the varied tastes of the 1000+ IMTians. A fortnightly menu is prepared in consultation with the mess workers and the administration. It looks after Mess accounts, keeping track of and ensuring optimal inventory in accordance with menus keeps the committee’s logistics skills on its toes. Mess Committee conducts Pizza Nite, Messomania and Mess Day.

Sports Committee focuses on organizing the sports related activities throughout the year for the students. They conduct Chakravyuh, a 20-year-old flagship event of Sports Committee, popularly known as the "Olympics of B-Schools.

Student Affairs and Welfare Council takes care of the incoming batch right from their Orientation & Induction by providing them with all the facilities they need to settle in our B-School providing them with a platform to interact with senior students. It organizes PASSION, one of the biggest management cum cultural festivals in the B-School fraternity.

Clubs

E- Cell purpose is to enable young India to dream, to sow the seeds of entrepreneurship within the youth of the country, and to help use education to generate employment while following best business practices, and setting examples. E-cell is closely associated with organizations of repute, such as the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). E-cell also have an incubation centre which for student start-ups in IMT to provides them with all the facilities required to run their business and also to get seed funding and mentorship. E- cell organised events like Concepto.exe, E Conclave, Innovation Lab, En-talks, etc. Startups started from IMT Ghaziabad include Admito.in, Buddy4study.com, Mast Kalandar, CollegeKhabar, I-Explore Consultancy, Tatsam Sports, Jazza Financials, and Connect2MBA.

MarkUp is the marketing club of IMT Ghaziabad. MarkUp is a platform for the budding marketing managers at IMT and also provides real time solutions for the corporates.The marketing events conducted year round include Mark Roadies, Ad-o-holic and Marketing World Cup. Ad-o-holic is an advertising event involving top B-Schools from the country usually held at the start of the academic year. Marketing World Cup, MWC as it is commonly referred to, is a 48-hour non stop marketing extravaganza and the 2nd biggest marketing event in the B School fraternity.

Make A Difference Foundation popularly known as MADF, is the social wing of IMT Ghaziabad. Madf is not only Charity, but sustainable empowerment and social inclusions via awareness. Madf has been involved in Sashakt, Sahyog, Needz and Joy of Summers.

FinNiche is the finance club of IMT Ghaziabad that specializes in disseminating financial knowledge to the student community through competitions, financial conclaves and panel discussions. Another pioneering endeavour of ours is the weekly magazine, FinXpress. It has an eclectic mix of sections ranging from company analysis, news & market of the week to quiz and humour. FinNiche conducts Survivor and Riscon as their major events.

Finnacle Investment is the investment and asset management club of IMT, aims at developing an insight into capital markets amongst the students of IMT Ghaziabad. The asset management activity includes analysis, selection, tracking, and selling decisions of selected stocks listed on a listed stock exchange.

HRuday is the HR club of IMT Ghaziabad. It aims of supplementing our institute’s efforts in creating industrious and adept HR professionals. It conducts Colloquium, Conquest and Horizon.

OPUS is the operations club of IMT-Ghaziabad. Round the year it has undertaken plethora of activities including case study competition (Excelencia), real time simulation event (Cyclops 2.0), live short term projects (STP) and magazine publication.

Enactus is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world. Live Project – Waste Paper Recycling : A initiative to make IMT G campus completely waste paper free campus. All the waste paper produced in the campus will be collected and then recycled. The recycled paper will be used to produce notebooks that will in turn be sold to the students. The revenue generated will be shared with NGOs that help the underprivileged. Thus we hope to create a self-sustaining model that will create a positive change in the campus.

Research and Consultancy Enterprise (RACE) is the consulting club of IMT Ghaziabad. The key initiatives are Consulting Workshop by ZeneSys and a magazine called Strategenia.

Vishit Ventures aims towards establishing successful start-ups year after year.

Events

The constant interaction with the corporate sector is done through:

• Shrinkhla, a series of seminars on various important issues facing the industry
• Synergies, a series of round table conferences of industry heads
• Compass, an annual consultancy symposium
• Conquest, a series of live short-term projects in the area of HR

Other competitions are also organized. A few of them are:

• Chakravyuh, B-school sports festival at IMT, Ghaziabad
• Tatva, Inter B-School Summer Internship Presentation Contest, at IMT, Ghaziabad
• Passion is the annual B-school fest of IMT, Ghaziabad
• Start Up Fair is the annual entrepreneurship event of IMT, Ghaziabad
• Marketing World Cup is the Annual Inter B-school Marketing Competition at IMT Ghaziabad

Notable alumni of IMT Ghaziabad

Main article: List of IMT Ghaziabad Alumni

IMT Ghaziabad has a strong alumni network with its alumni taking over many prestigious positions across the world. Some of the prominent alumni include politicians such as Sachin Pilot, business executives like Vineet Durani, Dev Amritesh, Deepak Mangla, Gayatri Ashta and eminent personality like Prasoon Joshi and Mini Mathur.

External links

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• IMT Ghaziabad Home Page