INDORE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

IIM Indore, established in 1996, is an autonomous public business school in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, and was the sixth Indian Institute of Management to be founded, after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode. It initially operated from the Government Polytechnic College in Rajendra Nagar before moving in 2003 to its current 193-acre campus at Prabandh Shikhar, near the Pithampur Special Economic Zone. Its first PGP batch of 37 students began in June 1998, and the institute was named an institute of national importance in 2017. Over the years, IIM Indore introduced several programmes, including the Fellow Programme in Management, the Executive Post Graduate Programme, and the Five Year Integrated Programme in Management, the first undergraduate program offered by any IIM. It also briefly operated campuses in the UAE and Mumbai. In December 2019, IIM Indore received EQUIS accreditation, making it the second IIM to hold the Triple Crown Accreditation of AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS. The campus includes a sports complex, multiple student hostels, and a Learning Centre serving as its library.