Anonymous's Review On IIM Raipur Indian Institute Of Management, Raipur

IIM Raipur is one of the prestigious B-schools of India and has been a constant high-rank holder in the Top MBA colleges list in India. The college campus is also one of the best among its peer B-schools, with good infrastructure and facilities. One has to appear for the CAT entrance exam and if he/she gets shortlisted for CAP interview, Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) are a mandatory processes for final admission to the college.

In the first year, students are exposed to basic concepts in the areas of Marketing, Finance, Quantitative Methods, Operations, Strategy, etc. which helps the students in understanding the different facets involved. In the second year, students choose from a range of electives to concentrate on functional areas of their interest. The areas offered at present are Finance, Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Strategy, and General Management.

Renowned companies, as well as start-up companies, expressed their interest in recruiting students as interns for summer internships. Various roles are offered in the fields of Finance, Operations, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Consulting, Business development, etc.

The placement cell works hard to place the whole batch. No of the recruiters for batch 2020 is 150+ with 50+ first-time recruiters, offering coveted roles in every domain. Placement by Industry: BFSI: 20% Strategy & Consulting: 18% IT & ITES: 18% Others: 17% Manufacturing: 16% FMCG/FMCD: 6% E-Commerce: 5%

Fees for the entire course sums up to Rupees 14 lakhs approximately. It is not mandatory to pay the fees in a lump sum. Fees are paid before the beginning of each trimester and amount to Rupees 2.3 lakhs approximately for one trimester. Students belonging to SC, ST, OBC, PWD are given the opportunity to apply for scholarships, where the college administration helps them throughout the application process.

Due to covid-19, students who are admitted to the college for the year 2020 have not got the opportunity to be on the campus yet. But hopefully, we will be there by the second year of our program. We are surely lacking peer learning due to online mode but trying our best to make the most out of it. Since the learning, teaching, and interacting is all in online mode, access to the library is also done virtually. College gave us credentials to log in to library portals where we can access relevant books, journals of our interests for the course

Since it is a residential course, all the students enrolled in this course are provided with hostel facilities. Each student has a room to themselves with a bathroom attached, a study table and chair, a bed, fan, cupboard, etc. The college provides a mess that runs 24/7, students will have to pay for mess separately.

As the admission process was done through the CAP round, there was no Group Discussions. Instead, the written ability test also called WAT was a mandatory evaluation process where students were tested on their critical thinking skills, their grammar and vocabulary, and their views on various topics related to current affairs, general knowledge, and trending topics. After WAT is over, students will appear for the Personal Interview round. Questions relating to the educational background, work experience, and fields of interest are mostly asked during the interview.