Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore

Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore was established in 1996 in the village of Ettimadai at the foothills of the Bouluvanpatty ranges, about 20 km from Coimbatore city. As Amrita's first campus, it remains home to the administrative headquarters of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University. Being the headquarters campus, it has the largest annual student intake among the university's five business school campuses (Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Kochi, Coimbatore, and Amaravati). The Coimbatore school offers full-time MBA and doctoral courses, with MBA specializations in Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, and Business Analytics. The campus houses the IBM Business Analytics Lab, inaugurated by Kaushik Bhaskar, Vice President of Information Integration & Governance Software and India Software Labs, IBM India. The Amrita Schools of Business, of which this campus is part, are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and are ranked among the world's top 5% of business schools. Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore was ranked 19th among top private B-schools in India by Careers360 magazine in 2014. Admission to MBA programs is based on scores from CAT, MAT, CMAT, or GMAT, along with an interview. Scholarships are offered based on CAT, GMAT scores, and CGPA.