Indore: More than two years after it laid foundation stone on a piece of land at Super Corridor here, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) has announced plans to start operations from its Indore campus from upcoming session.
“We have already got an approval from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for our Indore campus and we are going to start operations from June,” NMIMS University vice chancellor Rajan Saxena’s office told Free Press over phone. The institute will offer courses including Post Graduate Diploma in Management, BBA and MBA (Tech) in the inspection year.
While PGDM batch has been already admitted, BBA admissions are in process and interested candidates can register for entrance test till April 30. The state government had invited NMIMS about three years ago to set up an Off Campus Centre in Indore and subsequently allocated 25.5 acres of land in the vicinity of Super Corridor, which is an ambitious project of Indore Development Authority having involvement of major corporate and IT companies.
The institute was to start operations from Indore campus from session 2016-17 but a legal case delayed the launch. Finally the institute is starting its Indore facility from June. “Indore Campus will have state-of-the-art infrastructure and all modern amenities to meet global standards,” NMIMS website states. It also adds that phase-1 of the project is expected to get completed in next few months for commencement of classes for academic session 2017-18.
Saxena had recently said: “NMIMS Indore campus will set new benchmark in quality education and develop competent graduates who are not only outstanding performers in their respective fields but are also socially sensitive.” He had added that the institute has a large pool of highly qualified faculty, contemporary curriculum designed in consultation with industry, industry tie-ups, linkages with leading international universities which will help in delivering benchmark quality in higher education. Former director of IIM Indore, Saxena had also said that one of the biggest limitations of higher education in Indore has been low or no employability of graduates. “NMIMS would ensure that graduates produced by Indore campus are employable.”
Saxena sees a significant scope for NMIMS in Indore, not just in student market but in other segments like defence, entrepreneurship, family business, art & culture, technology management, etc. Indore is the only city in the country to have two premier institutions viz IIM and IIT. Besides, it has a state government run university (DAVV) and six private universities, including Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, which had started its operations last year. With NMIMS Indore campus also coming into being from session 2017-18, students here would get one more choice for admission in national level institution.
