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IIMA’s MBA-PGPX batch has over 30% females this year —highest figure so far | Ahmedabad News

IIMA’s MBA-PGPX batch has over 30% females this year —highest figure so far | Ahmedabad News

Out of the total 158 students who have taken admission in the 20th batch of MBA-PGPX (2025-2026) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), 48 students (30.38 per cent) are female — highest number so far — and 110 (69.62 per cent) are males, said an official statement. According to the details shared by IIMA, the batch has an average work experience of seven years, nine months, and 36.43 per cent students possess international exposure in terms of work and studies. Most students come from a background of manufacturing and engineering (25), energy and utilities (18), consulting (14), IT products (12), retail and ecommerce (11), infrastructure and construction (9), banking, financial services and insurance (9) among others, IIMA stated in a release. Addressing the new batch Thursday, Prof Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA, said, “We all are witnessing how businesses are transforming, and it is happening at a rapid pace. We are again at a juncture that is as disruptive as the arrival of web technology and IT of the 1990s. Advanced technologies like Artificial …

Beyond the bricks: IIMA’s progression through decades

Beyond the bricks: IIMA’s progression through decades

One of the country’s top-ranking B-School, The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which is into its 63rd year, has seen marked changes over decades, including its operating style, profile of faculty, and students… and some would say even thinking. RITU SHARMA reports Located in Vastrapur — which was once a suburb of Ahmedabad in the 1960s, and is now an upscale locality of the city— the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has grabbed headlines multiple times for a diverse set of reasons in the past couple of years. Be it the discussion to bring down the buildings designed by famous American architect Louis Kahn, which are now dilapidated, or to tweak the logo that takes after the stone lattice work from a city mosque, the enrolment of actor Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda in its Blended Post Graduate Programme and lately, the alleged suicide of 24-year-old student Akshit Bhukya on the campus — the institute continues to be in the public eye. The institute has been topping the National Institutional Ranking Framework …