The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) are foundation of management pedagogy and research in the country. They basically offer UG/PG, Doctoral and Executive Education Programmes accompanying with some additional courses. Paying no attention to the vagueness and turmoil kindled by the extant COVID-19 pandemic, IIM Kozhikode is thoroughly prepared to greet its aspirants to the inception of its educational term for the year 2020. The e-Inauguration of their completely established PG strategies in the field of Management, Liberal Studies & Management and Finance and Doctoral in Management course has been set up for 6th August 2020.
The Chairman and Managing Director of Nestle India, Suresh Narayanan is the Honoree of the ceremony that is lead by Prof Debashis Chatterjee. With the exception of the substantive course Post Graduate Programme and Doctoral Programme in the field of Management in the year 2020 of 24 and 14 Batch, respectively, the conclave also intends to behold the outset of 2 fresh initiatives: Post Graduate Programme in Finance and Post Graduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management which strengthens the Institute’s approach to curriculum integration focusing primarily on various courses and assorted outlook they bring to adorn any topic or issue. Academic session 2020-21 is set to commence with online classes for senior batch from July 1st week and for fresh inductees from 2nd week of August.
Gender uniformity has been successfully accomplished by the Institution of current year PGP batch that includes female candidates of about 52% of the looming unit of 492 aspirants that constitutes them as a strong division. 24th Batch of PGP will remain the diverse educational level while around 40% of the assemblages are from different non-technical courses as in Commerce, Arts and Science, Management, Medicine and Architecture. Around 65% of the candidates have pursued exiguous rank of employment history in several industrial sectors like Durable Goods, Automobile, Information Technology, Banking, Engineering and Pharmaceutical. The opening group of the PGP Finance comprises of an aggregate of 41 students (which is 37 males and 4 females) and 73% students have come from the Engineering background. 14th batch of Doctoral degree also consists of 10 female candidates out of 19 students along with 3 MBA aspirants from IIMs. The newly launched MBA in Liberal Studies & Management (MBA-LSM) admits 62.5% women in inaugural batch. A typical number of 450 students are elected for 2 batches with women making 30% of the total student community.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
FIRST YEAR PGP BATCH 24 –
| TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | |
| REGISTRATION | 4th – 5th August 2020 | 17th November 2020 | 8th February 2021 |
| ORIENTATION | 6th – 10th August 2020 | ||
| INAUGURATION | 11th August 2020 | ||
| STARTING OF CLASSES | 12th August 2020 | 17th November 2020 | 8th February 2021 |
| MID TERM EXAMS | 19th – 23rd Sept 2020 | 19th – 23rd Dec 2020 | 13th – 17th March 2021 |
| END OF CLASSES | 5th November 2020 | 27th January 2021 | 20th April 2021 |
| END TERM EXAMS | 6th – 10th Nov 2020 | 28th Jan – 1st Feb 2021 | 21st – 26th April 2021 |
| TERM BREAK | 2nd – 7th February 2021 |