Iifm - a great career option

This college has great infrastructure along with experienced and supportive teaching staff and non-teaching staff.

The course curriculum is divided into 6 trimesters with 2 field exercise in each year and 1 summer internship of 2 months duration. This course believes in experiential learning whereby we are exposed to field visits to different sectors inorder to get the broad idea of how industries work, how NGOs work and to study the current government policies and schemes. This course is very well designed that give you ample opportunities to apply the theoritical concepts learned in class in real life.

IIFM has a record of 100% placement since it's inception in 1988. Alums of IIFM are working in various sectors ranging from microfinance to consultancy to NGOs. Companies like WWF, UNICEF , EnY, KPMG, etc have come for placements and internships.

IIFM portrays the best example for unity in diversity as it is known for its vibrant culture. IIFM celebrates every festival like Diwali, Id, Christmas pongal, Holi,lohdi etc with full vigour. The students studying in IIFM come from various states. Currently, there are students from 22 states pursuing their Post graduation from IIFM.

The total fee for the PGDFM is 6.24 lakhs including the Hostel fee. The mess fees is around 50000 for 10 months. The first installment for PGDFM 19-21 was Rs374400. The revised fees will be updated soon. Since, it is a residential course so there is no need of commutation expenses to be incurred.

Education loan from SBI is a preferred option as it has tied up with IIFM. The education loan can be easily availed.

Life at IIFM is just inexpressible in words and it is a full medley of cultural, sports, drama,literary activities. IIFM conducts one annual Business fest called colescence and a cultural fest called Kalpatru wherein Institutes from all over India register their presence. There are various clubs and committees like Cultural club, Public relations club, Alumni committee, Nature club and drama club which organises various fun filled activities and competition from time to time. IIFM is the best example of "learning by doing".

Being a member of Alumni club of IIFM, I want to say that IIFM has a strong alumni base and it's alumni are it's assets who are also the potential recruiters for IIFM. The Alumni have taken the culture and legacy of IIFM forward and had spread it across the country.

I got admission through XAT score, though IIFM accepts both CAT/XAT score for it admission process. After getting shortlisted through CAT/XAT score, you have to write a SOP followed by interview process. After the interview process, the list of selected students are called to take admission.

The experienced faculties who have been teaching for 15-20 years now impart a great deal of knowledge and skills. There are various IFS officers who teach us and all the faculties are learned and unique in their teaching skills. They help us in clearing doubts after the class hours. They guide us in assignments and projects.