IIM Indore Welcomes New Batch of PGP Program with Less than 30% Female Candidates; Check Details Here

Content Curator | Updated On - Jul 3, 2024

Maharashtra excels with the highest overall participation at IIM Indore, contributing 86 students, including the largest group in the PGP with 71 participants.

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM Indore) welcomed the new batch of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management (PGP-HRM), Doctoral Programme in Management (DPM), and Integrated Programme in Management – Fourth Year (IPM-4th Year) on June 27, 2024.

Prof. Himanshu Rai, Director, IIM Indore inaugurated the batch. In his inaugural address, Prof. Rai delivered a profound message urging the new batch to embrace their destiny and realize their true potential. “In your journey, understanding your swadharma is paramount. Recognize that fulfilling your own destiny is your primary obligation. Identify your true potential—your swadharma—and aim to achieve it”, he said.

What is the Batch Statistics for IIM Indore?

The PGPHRM batch of 2024 has 93.94% female representation, reflecting a significant stride towards gender balance. It also highlights a diverse academic landscape, with non-engineers making up 46.86% of the entire cohort.

Maharashtra excels with the highest overall participation at IIM Indore, contributing 86 students, including the largest group in the PGP with 71 participants. Uttar Pradesh also stands out with the most participants in the IPM and PGPHRM, numbering 12 and 6, respectively. Madhya Pradesh shows strong representation in the new batch with 53 participants.

Programme	Female	Male	Total	%Female	%Male
DPM	13	14	27	48.15%	51.85%
IPM	23	74	97	23.71%	76.29%
PGP	133	349	482	27.59%	72.41%
PGPHRM	31	2	33	93.94%	6.06%
Total	200	439	639	31.30%	68.70%

Dip in Number of Female Candidates in PGP Batch 2024

The number of women in the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) has dipped from 33.88 per cent in 2021-23 to 27.59 per cent in the current 2024-26 batch. According to official data, the percentage of women in the 2021-23, 2022- 24 and 2023-25 batches was 33.88, 32.68 and 31.40, respectively.

IIM Indore Director Himanshu Rai said, “Promoting gender diversity tops the agenda of the institute and an in-depth analysis will be done to study this dip. Our initial analysis reveals that a lesser number of women come to us for the PGP admission interviews on the basis of their CAT performance.”

He said some management institutes in the country have introduced the 'supernumerary' system admission system in PGP courses, under which seats for women are reserved beyond the normal number.

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