INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, NAGPUR

IIM Nagpur was established in 2015 as one of six new Indian Institutes of Management sanctioned by the Government of India, operating under the mentorship of IIM Ahmedabad. Its first PGP batch began in July 2015 at a temporary campus within VNIT Nagpur, with 55 students admitted via CAT. It was inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and was the first among the 2015 batch of IIMs to become operational. The institute's permanent 132-acre campus at MIHAN, Nagpur, had its groundbreaking in March 2019, with the Central Government sanctioning ₹379.68 crores for construction. The institute relocated there in November 2021, and the campus was formally inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind in May 2022. IIM Nagpur is governed by the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017, granting it status as an Institute of National Importance with academic and administrative autonomy. It is a member of AACSB and ranked 25th among management schools in India by NIRF in 2025. The institute offers PGP, Executive MBA (from a Pune satellite campus), Executive MBA in Energy Management with NPTI, Blended MBA, full-time and executive PhD programmes, and executive education, along with research centres such as InFED for entrepreneurship development.