The excellent internship opportunities XIMB provides

The academic curriculum here at XIMB is well organized and they have really good qualified faculties. The MBA-BM provides acumen with general management skills and courses comprising from all the domains in the first year and the second year students are allowed to choose electives from a vast pool of 53 subjects. Based on the required number of credits to be taken for a particular domain, majors, and minors are tagged. ( Finance, marketing, strategy, operations, Systems) They have core faculties, adjunct faculties, and visiting faculties. A total of 49 faculties teach core subjects to both years to a batch size of nearly 360. The ratio nearing 1:7. All the faculties here are PhD scholars and conduct their research works as well at the campus. The faculties are highly qualified in the domain and all the information is available on the website. The course provides 6 semesters with 3 months each. Each semester comprises various quizzes, assignments, mid-sem, group projects and final semester.

For the Summer's 21 there was a total of 91 recruiters, the average stipend offered was1.17lacs and the highest stipend offered was 3.5lacs., sector-wise placements 21% in consulting, 20% in manufacturing, 16% in BFSI, 12% in FMCG, 21% in IT and10% others. Prominent recruiters include Deloitte, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel, Titan, Godrej LOREAL, etc. Top 25% compensation marked median stipend of 2.2lac

XIMB proudly announced its 100% placement for the batch of 21-23. This year 72 companies visited our campus for the recruitment drive.This year's highest package was 71.5lac and the average package of 20.30lac, the median salary stood at around 19.25lac for the cohort of 356 students. record breaking 111ppos were offered to the students. key roles offered: product manager, portfolio manager, consultant, area sales manager, brand manager, etc. prominent recruiters include Microsoft, Bain and company, McKinsey Company, Arcesium, Jio, and many others. Final placements drive starts when the students are in the second year.

The fee structure is divided as follows: course fees First year: 940000, second year: 890000, development fees 100000, course material/year 40000, IT expense 20000/year, Alumni fee 10000, Career Advisory Services 50000, refundable deposits. It sums to around 20lacs and the cost of residence costs around 80000 for a single room for two years and 60000 for double occupancy. One can switch to any. The campus has a mess and its cost is not included in the above list. However, it is very economical based on the student's needs. XIMB is a very reputable college and educational loans for the courses offered can be easily availed at most of the commercial banks in India. The college even provides a list of banks where the flow of availing loans is more smooth even with the facility of no collateral and security deposit. (Eg: SBI at fortune towers). The placements at XIMB are one of the best among top B-schools and this year MBA batch of 21- 23 had their average package of 20.03lacs CTC.

The campus life here is very vibrant and it's an entirely student-driven campus. Starting from academics the curriculum is well structured and the faculties are highly qualified. Each lecture duration is of 90mins and prof. abides this strictly. Nearly we attend 3-4 lectures a day, rushing to x-café or Nescafe for a coffee dose and those gossips during the breaks. The library has all the resources that we need for our all functions, reading rooms which are open 24*7 for students, have digital learning platform(UMS) where we are given bunches of database access like- India stats, Statista, oxford university press and others (nearly 36). XPRESSIONS is the annual fest of XIMB, it is eastern India's largest cultural fest. this year we hosted Vishal-Sekhar, sunburn as DJs and karunesh Talwar. The footfall reaches nearly 30000. All the sports faculties are available dedicated badminton court, football field , basket ball field and many indoor games.

There are single and double occupancy rooms available. The double occupancy rooms have attached washrooms. Each room are provided with cupboard and study tables. Each floor has washing machines and even they provide laundry services as well. Boys and girls hostels are separate rooms. Each hostel has MPH(multi purpose halls) for study discussions meeting etc. It has a separate mess , both options of foods are available (veg, non-veg) , it is charged separately, the menu keeps changing every month and they(food secretary) ensure proper nutritious foods are been served. The registration process is simple and the staffs guides you the process and allocates your rooms and all the stationaries required is available at the campus shop.

A three-year Bachelor's Degree(or equivalent) from a recognized university in any discipline with at least 55% marks in aggregate is required for admission to MBA-BM. The college application form is available on their official website. ( ximb.edu.in) The application process date is flexible; this academic year was from September 8th, 2022 to January 20, 2023, and the application fee was 1600. I took the XAT entrance exam and applied through the same channel for MBA-BM. XIMB takes the scores from CAT, XAT, GMAT, NMAT(XIMB-HRM program only), and X-GMT( test conducted by XIMB itself). XIMB has a domicile reservation for Odisha resident applicants only. The cutoff for the different entrance tests and the reservation and non-reservation candidates are different and the cut-offs are communicated by the administration once they declare the list.

Yes, during my admission process post getting a call from XIMB. Only one round of interviews was conducted in the online arrangement. A panel of three interviewers took my interview. The questions were very dynamic and they asked basic HR questions like - 1. Why MBA? 2. What are your 4 weaknesses and how do you feel about them? followed by generic questions 3. Influence me to visit Odisha 4. What did you learn from this Budget 5. your role model and why him/her a few technical questions: What is a standard deviation, Name 10 items from the balance sheet, What is an audit report. To prepare for this interview I read The Hindu for current affairs and materials of TIME for GD, common interview questions, etc.