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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), a premier global management institute, recently welcomed the 59th class of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and the 23rd class of the Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM). The PGP and PGP FABM Class of 2024 comprises 444 talented students (397 in the PGP and 47 in the PGP-FABM) from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, age, and experience.



Welcoming the students in his inaugural address, Professor Errol D’Souza, Director, IIMA spoke about the importance of building culture as an intrinsic value and advised them to use it as the driving force for character building, to achieve self-actualisation and to set a long-term vision in mind during their two years at the Institute. “It requires you to be aware of your biases, your prejudices, and understand that you are privileged. The fact that you are in an Institution like this makes you privileged and therefore you need to use those privileges wisely. It requires you to have a sense of service, when you do something, it is not just for yourself, it is for your friends and family, and for the world at large. And that is the culture that we hope you will imbibe at this Institute,” he said.

Among the 397 students of PGP, 66.5 per cent are engineers and 33.5 per cent from non-engineering backgrounds such as arts, science and commerce. The average age of the class remains unchanged at 23 years. The PGP – FABM class has 47 students from food, agriculture, and allied backgrounds. The average age in this group has increased to 23 years, as compared to 22 in the last two years. Women students make up 23 per cent and 38 per cent, of the PGP and PGP- FABM classes respectively.



 IIMA takes pride in its unequalled pedagogy, which provides a transformative journey for its students through a series of carefully blended classroom and peer learning interventions. To that end, its admissions process actively promotes diversity in the IIMA student body. It brings together a cohort of students with diverse educational, professional, age, gender, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds, who bring new perspectives and can learn from one another. The course curriculum is also designed to meet the needs of a diverse student community.