S. Vishnu Sharma
School of Business at IIT Guwahati commenced its academic activities. It will soon be admitting the first batch of students at its flagship programme, Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The process of admission at School of Business at IIT Guwahati will likely commece in January next year and the first batch is expected to commence studies from July 2022.
School of Business admission criteria
The admission to the MBA programme at School of Business at IIT Guwahati will be in line with the admission process adopted by other IITs offering MBA programmes, with the requirement of opening this programme to prospective applicants who have qualified the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2021.
Website
The website of School of Business at IIT Guwahati was launched by Director of IIT Guwahati Professor T.G. Sitharam. The launch of the website of School of Business at IIT Guwahati took place in the presence of Professor Varadraj B. Bapat who is the member of Board of Governors at IIT Guwahati.
The other eminent personalities present during the inauguration of School of Business at IIT Guwahati were Professor Prahlada Rama Rao, Member, Board of Governors, IITG), Professor N. Viswanadham, Emeritus Professor and INSA Senior Scientist, IISc Bangalore.
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The website of the School of Business at IIT Guwahati is now accessible at ‘http://www.iitg.ac.in/sob’ where information related to all academic activities and initiatives will be updated.
Other dignitaries present on the occasion include, Professor Nachiketa Tripathi (HSS, IITG), Professor Siddhartha Pratim Chakrabarty (Mathematics, IITG), Professor Deepak Sharma (ME, IITG), Professor Sukhomay Pal (ME, IITG) and Professor Parameswar K. Iyer (Dean-PRBR, IITG).
Admission process
The admission process at School of Business at IIT Guwahati will take place in two stages. In Stage 1, the shortlisting of applications for the Personal Interview (PI) will be done.
This will be followed by Stage 2, where the final selection will be made based on the PI, along with a few other parameters.
Professor T.G. Sitharam
He said that the establishment of the School of Business at IIT Guwahati was motivated by the idea of promoting and contributing to the subjects of management and entrepreneurship, amongst other emerging subjects.
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He emphasized the mission of the School to create an ecosystem in line with NEP2020, where learners from diverse background can strive and acquire expert skills and knowledge in business management as well, while also creating an opportunity for executives and technocrats to translate their ideas into tangible business solutions.
Primary goal
The Head of the School of Business at IIT Guwahati, Professor Laishram Boeing Singh mentioned that the primary goal of this newly established School is to impart business and management knowledge in conjunction with the right skills, to empower individuals striving towards achieving tangible entrepreneurial goals and utilize the diverse ecosystem existing at IIT Guwahati.
First of its kind
The School of Business at IIT Guwahati, the first of its kind in the region, currently has several faculty members associated with it, from various Departments of IITG, who represent the various functional areas of management, including, Project Management, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Finance, Economics, Operations Management, Information Systems, and Strategic Management.
Some of the unique expertise offered by the School of Business at IIT Guwahati include niche areas of Business Analytics, Human Resource Analytics, and Sustainable Finance. Finally, in the spirit of the continued commitment of IIT Guwahati towards the improvement of its geographical neighborhood, the School is expected to lend support to skill development and empowerment in the region, especially for small and women entrepreneurs.
About IIT Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019.
At present, the Institute has eleven departments, five inter-disciplinary academic centres and four schools covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes.
The institute offers a residential campus to 412 faculty members and more than 6,000 students at present. Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994.
The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 kms from the heart of the Guwahati city.
IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings.
IIT Guwahati gained rank 41 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 395 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2022 released recently.
IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2019’ declared by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).
IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India. Recently, IIT Guwahati has been ranked as the top-ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the Asia-Pacific region.
Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies, Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, and Water Resources and Management. In its silver jubilee year, IIT Guwahati is poised to scale newer heights through all-round growth and development.
