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Established
  
1980

Phone
  
0120 300 2200

President
  
Kamal Nath

Dean
  
Surinder Batra

Doctoral students
  
15

Founded
  
1980

Postgraduates
  
600

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Type
  
Unaided - Private Business School

Director
  
Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay

Academic staff
  
~ 50 (core) & ~ 35 (visiting)

Location
  
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Address
  
Raj Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201001

Motto
  
Lead the Future (Growing Intellectually)

Notable alumni
  
Similar
  
Management Development Institute, S P Jain Institute of Manage, International Management Institute, Faculty of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign T

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Imt ghaziabad


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

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IMT is a fully autonomous university and offers several post graduate, doctorate and executive education programmes in management. It also offers distance learning and collaborative programmes.

The university's 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

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 located in Ghaziabad, near the national capital.

    The campus' "Centres of Excellence" include 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. All lecture theaters are air-conditioned.

    Library

    The Library is open 24 hours daily, including Saturdays and Sundays. It provides e-books, e-journals, corporate & industry information and country research databases. IMT has a 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’.

    IT infrastructure

    IMT Ghaziabad’s intranet uses fibre optic cables offering 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.

    Housing

    IMT Ghaziabad is a residential campus with 10 student-housing blocks and a separate block housing MDP participants. The hostels provide both single and double occupancy, 24 hour 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 also has a gymnasium and an amphitheatre. There is a Nescafe stall and a canteen which are open 24 hours daily for the students. There are student bodies like the cultural committee and sports committee which organize events through the year.

    Nagpur Campus

    Established in 2004 by Late Shri Mahendra Nath, IMT-N spreads over a campus of 27 acres in the outskirts of Nagpur. The present curriculum of PGDM, PGDM (Finance), PGDM (IT) and PGDM (HR) programmes.

    Dubai Campus

    Founded in 2006, The Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Dubai is a 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 campus of over 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2). IMT Dubai is a member of the international accrediting organizations 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 an admission procedure which takes place in a three-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 two faculty members and an alumnus. The students having the maximum combined score in GD and PI are then given a final call by the college. 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,Finance,HR,Solutions and Consulting,Strategic Management and Analytics)
  • 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 offers business executives a three-year part-time postgraduate programme (PGDM P/T). Corporate participants can enroll in the Management Development Programme (MDP) including managerial decision making. IMT's Fellow Program in Management (FPM) programme provides doctoral-level education in business management and related disciplines.

    For business managers, IMT has a Postgraduate 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 two-year PGDM programme of IMT Ghaziabad is based on input from alumni and industry experts. Every session starts with the Pre-foundation programme and Foundation Module where corporate leaders address the incoming students on various topics in the first 10–12 days.

    All students of IMT Ghaziabad undergo a compulsory simulation programme, accredited by the AACSB.

    In addition to the two-month Summer Internship Program that all MBA graduates undergo, IMT Ghaziabad 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 Student Affairs and Welfare Council International Relations Committee Sports Committee Cultural Committee Entrepreneurship Cell IMTeam Prism Alumni Relationship Committee https://www.imt.edu/student-life/student-committees/

    Events

    The 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
  • E Conclave is the annual entrepreneurship event of IMT, Ghaziabad
  • Marketing World Cup is the Annual Inter B-school Marketing Competition at IMT Ghaziabad
  • Notable alumni

    Alumni of the university include:

  • Sachin Pilot, former Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  • Nimmagadda Prasad, chairman, MAA TV; vice chairman & founder, Matrix Laboratories
  • Prasoon Joshi, eminent advertising personality and regional creative director, APAC, McCann Erickson
  • Pranava Prakash, Noted Sociopop Artist
  • Mini Mathur,Indian Host/Actress/Model
  • Rajeev Karwal, Founder Milagrow
  • Sanjib Sahoo, Chief Technology Officer, Trademonster, USA
  • Prachi Tehlan, Actor/former National sportswoman
  • References

    Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad Wikipedia