The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) on Wednesday welcomed its 62nd batch of its two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management. The batch has 414 students and half of them have engineering backgrounds, the institute stated. A total of 460 students joined two of its flagship programmes on Wednesday, including 46 students who were inducted into the 26th batch of the two-year full time PGP in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM).
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The 2025-27 batch has 30.6% female and the rest male, with students having an average work experience of 25 months. While 27% are freshers, the rest have worked in various sectors, according to the institute.
Highlighting the diversity of the new cohort, IIMA Director Dr. Prof Bharat Bhasker encouraged the students to adopt a spirit of cooperation and emphasised the importance of peer learning.
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Students are from a variety of backgrounds, including commerce, liberal arts disciplines, engineering, chartered accountancy, company secretaryship.
Out of the 46 students in the PGP-FABM batch of 2025-27, 45.65% are female, while the rest are male. All the students in the cohort come from agriculture and allied agriculture disciplines. The students have an average work experience of 20 months, with 40% of them having work experiences. The average age of students is 23 for both the said programmes.
A significant number of differently abled students have joined the PGP class of 2025-2027, IIMA also stated. Delivering an inaugural address on Wednesday, Prof Bhasker said, “You have arrived at a platform that has been producing leaders for six decades.
During this time, IIMA has not only produced leaders, but also the methodology that enables this transformation in people.”
“You are among the select few who have made it here from the lakhs of applications we received, and are now part of programmes, which have been consistently ranked number one in the country and are among the top in the world. Over the years, we have continuously evolved these programmes to ensure that those graduating from this Institute represent the very best the country has to offer,” he also said.
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Encouraging the students to make the most of their time at the institute, Diptesh Ghosh, Dean (Programmes), IIMA (IIM Ahmedabad), said: “This place is demanding, and many of the courses will be new to you. Our motto — ‘Development through the application of knowledge’ — reflects our belief that management is an applied discipline. What matters more than knowing facts is your ability to apply them in practice. This comes alive in our classrooms through real-world business scenarios that require you to make decisions, which is the essence of the case methodology that IIMA is renowned for.”
About IIM Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has over fifty years of leadership in management education. It was established in 1961 as an autonomous Institution by the active collaboration of the government of India, government of Gujarat, and industry. No 1 Business Schools in India as per NIRF Ranking 2024.
