'Pivots Of Change': Thousands Graduate From 3 Of India's Top Business Schools

IIM-Bangalore graduated 673 students across five programs March 31

IIM-Bangalore’s 48th Convocation sees 673 students graduate

From Bangalore, India: The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore hosted its 48th Convocation on March 31. Degrees were awarded to the students of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program and the MBA programs — the Post Graduate Program in Enterprise Management, Executive Post Graduate Program in Management, Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics, and Post Graduate Program in Management, in the presence of the Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIM-Bangalore, the Director, IIM Bangalore, Deans, faculty, and staff of IIMB.

A total of 673 students from various programs graduated. The program-wise details are as follows: 16 Doctoral Program students; 73 from Post Graduate Program in Enterprise Management; 73 from Executive Post Graduate Program in Management; 39 from Post Graduate Program in Business Analytics, and 472 from Post Graduate Program in Management.

“India as a country is today at the forefront and has emerged as a major force to reckon with,” said Chief Guest Padma Bhushan recipient Baba Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Forge Limited, during his special address on ‘Seizing India’s Moment’ at IIM-Bangalore’s Convocation ceremony. “You, as young professionals equipped with learnings from a premier business school, must assume the role of catalysts or agents of change and impress on others the need to think differently. As individuals, we must stop expecting others, including the Government or society, to change first. We must instead make ourselves the pivots of change.”

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IIM-Calcutta awards MBA degrees to 461 students in 58th convocation

From Calcutta, India: Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta on Saturday awarded degrees to 461 students of two-year flagship MBA programme in the 58th annual convocation.

Wunderman Thompson’s Executive Director Tarun Rai delivered the keynote address.

“A total of 461 students of the 58th batch of the 2-year flagship MBA program were awarded their degrees, along with 78 students who were awarded for the 1-Year MBAEx program,” IIM-C said in a statement.

The Institute also conferred 40 students with their post-graduate program for executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing and 10 students with their Ph.D. degrees.

Recently, the final placement process for the 58th batch of IIM-Calcutta’s flagship two-year MBA program was completed, with a 3% rise in the average yearly salary offered to candidates this year, the statement said.

The median salary offered also increased by almost 9% compared to that of last year, standing at Rs 33.67 lakh.

IIM-Kozhikode awards 1,166 titles, degrees in convocation ceremony

From Kozhikode, India: The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode hosted its 25th annual Convocation in which a total of 1,166 students were conferred with titles and degrees.

A total of 470 participants from the Silver Jubilee batch of IIM-K’s flagship Post Graduate Program in Management were awarded the MBA degree. The graduating students also included 10 students from IIM Kozhikode’s Doctoral Program in Management, 64 students from the one-year full time Post Graduate Program in Business Leadership, 38 students from the batch of Post Graduate Program in Finance, and 51 students from the Post Graduate Program in Liberal Studies and Management.

In this year’s ceremony, the graduates chose to wear ethnic clothes instead of the traditional convocation gowns. This change was brought in to mark the Silver Jubilee of Annual Convocation. All 1,166 students, both male (kurta pyjamas, mundus) and female (kurta pyjama, sarees), were dressed in traditional Indian attire in matching maroon hues to celebrate IIM-K’s motto and Vision 2047 “Globalizing Indian Thought.” With this, the graduating batch became the first in all IIMs to ditch convocation gowns for traditional clothes in the graduation ceremony.

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