Better to expand existing ones: Do we need more IIMs? expanding the existing ones

Abstract

We already have 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), and five more have been proposed in the Budget. The basic debate is whether we need more capacity to train managers by expanding offering of training to a larger number of young and prospective professionals and the next question is about the form in which this capacity expansion should take place. Considering the gap between the number of applicants for writing the entrance exam (which seems to have plateaued of late) and the seats offered by the existing IIMs, it appears that there is still a case for expanded offering, at least at the post graduate programme level. There is an increasing need for offering doctoral level programmes and increasing the research output. However, the fundamental debate is whether these objectives could be achieved only by setting up new IIMs.

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