INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, SHILLONG

Indian Institute of Management Shillong (IIM Shillong or IIM-S) is a public, fully autonomous management institute in Shillong, Meghalaya, and was the seventh Indian Institute of Management established in India. Founded in 2007, it offers postgraduate, doctoral, and executive programmes in management education, along with Management Development Programmes (MDPs). Admissions are based on the Common Admission Test (CAT), followed by an extempore and personal interview; from 2025 it also admits students to a five-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) through the IPMAT (IIM Indore) exam. The institute has a Centre for Development of North Eastern Region (CEDNER), formerly the Accelerated Learning Centre, which organizes programmes relevant to the local community. The foundation stone was laid by Arjun Singh in 2007, and the first batch of the Post-Graduate Programme was inaugurated in 2008 by Meghalaya's Chief Minister Donkupar Roy. The institute was initially set up at the Mayurbhanj Palace, with a permanent campus developed at Umsawli. Its logo was designed by Anil Sinha and Ankita Gajjar of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The first Board of Governors chairman was Rathindra Nath Dutta, and the first director was Prof Ashoke K. Dutta.