IIM Kozhikode Welcomes the Biggest Executive MBA Class Ever with 172 Students

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New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode held an orientation ceremony for students enrolled in the Executive Postgraduate Programme (EPGP) in Management for the academic session of 2022-24. The event was carried out in the online mode.

Based on an official release, IIM Kozhikode saw a 36% increase in enrollments in its executive postgraduate programme (EPGP) in management this year. With 172 individuals, the current year's EPGP cohort has the most executive-MBA students on campus.

Additionally, the batch includes 4 foreign participants from the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Female candidates make up 20% of the cohort.

IIM Kozhikode has made the decision to offer a one-weekend batch in physical form and two-weekday batches in online mode in order to accommodate participants from beyond Kerala.

The majority of this group comprises representatives from sectors like IT/ ITES, manufacturing, government and PSU, BFSI and consulting, sales and marketing, and entrepreneur sectors/areas.

The group represented companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Cognizant, Reliance Communications, IBM, TCS, Boeing, American Express, Tech Mahindra, Deloitte, Samsung, Tech Mahindra, Adobe, Capgemini, Bosch, and Apollo Tyres.

The 10th batch of working executives enrolled in the EPGP programme at IIM Kozhikode underwent an orientation event. Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam, a retired civil servant, advocate, and union minister of state for culture and tourism, served as the ceremony's chief guest.

Debashis Chatterjee, director of IIM Kozhikode, also chaired the induction event attended by the deans, chairpersons, faculty, staff, and recently recruited students.

Addressing during the induction event, IIMK director Debashis Chatterjee commended the candidates for passing the difficult selection procedures and praised the multicultural makeup of the class, which included candidates from 22 different states and more than 20% women.

He said, "What empowers our managers to perform so well? It is due to India's deeply ingrained moral perspective; here, accumulating riches is both ethical and revered.”

“Providing management education that is firmly steeped in not merely the symbolical but the reality of what constitutes to be an Indian is one approach to showing Indian soft power,” the expert continued.

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