IIM Sambalpur Welcomes its 10th MBA Batch with 76% Female Students; Check Details Here

Content Curator | Updated On - Jul 3, 2024

The newly inducted MBA Batch has also seen a significant rise in the percentage of non-engineers with 60 per cent (194 students).

IIM Sambalpur Welcomes its 10th MBA Batch with 76% Female Students

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM Sambalpur) has welcomed the 10th batch of its MBA Course for the academic session 2024-25. With a total strength of 320 students, the 2024-26 cohort consists of 244 (76 per cent) female and 76 (24 per cent) male students.

Along with this, the newly inducted MBA Batch has seen a significant rise in the percentage of non-engineers with 60 per cent (194 students). In non-engineers category, 19% of the students are from science and commerce backgrounds, respectively while 12.5% from management and 4% from arts backgrounds. Another interesting fact of the batch is that among the students, 46% (146) have prior work experience, whereas 54% (174) are freshers.

The inaugural event of the 2024-26 batch was attended by industry leaders including Subrat Tripathy, President-Business development of Adani Group as the chief guest; Sumit Sangwan, vice president – sales and marketing, Havells India Pvt Ltd as the keynote speaker while Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal, director, IIM Sambalpur delivered the welcome note. Students and faculty members of IIM Sambalpur were also present at the event.

Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal, director, IIM Sambalpur highlighted the institution’s establishment by the Government of India in 2015 and said, “Welcome to IIM Sambalpur, where we stand by our core values of innovation, integrity, and inclusiveness, the idea of gender diversity was pioneered at IIM Sambalpur.”

“Before 2017, the percentage of women students in MBA classes across IIMs was less than 11%, including IIM Sambalpur. In 2017, we made a bold decision to implement a policy that provided an additional 5% cut off reduction for female candidates when calling for interviews and then creating a common merit list. This initiative made history by achieving a 50% female enrollment from 2017 onwards, a model that has since been adopted by all IIMs,” the director added.

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