INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SAMBALPUR

Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur (IIM Sambalpur) is a public business school in Sambalpur, Odisha, India. Announced in 2014 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, it was founded on 23 September 2015, with its first student batch starting that September. Initially mentored by IIM Indore, it was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, on 19 August 2015. Its campus was first set up at Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, and later a permanent campus was developed on 237 acres at Basantpur, with the foundation stone laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 January 2021 and inaugurated on 3 February 2024. The institute is governed by a board of governors, with Arundhati Bhattacharya as chairperson since 2016 and Mahadeo Jaiswal as director as of 2021. IIM Sambalpur offers postgraduate diploma programs in management, undergraduate BS programs in data science and artificial intelligence and management and public policy, and doctoral-level fellowship programs. Admission is primarily through the Common Admission Test, JEE Mains, and IPMAT Indore. It has an exchange collaboration with Alba Graduate Business School, Greece, and was ranked 34 among management institutions by NIRF in 2025.