Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon

The Great Lakes Institute of Management (also known as Great Lakes or GLIM) is a private business school in India, founded in 2004 by Bala V. Balachandran, a professor at Kellogg School of Management. Its first campus was established in Chennai, with a second campus later opened in Gurugram. The institute's one-year Post-Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) became the first one-year full-time management programme to be accredited by AICTE in 2008. Since 2012, Great Lakes has also offered a traditional two-year PGDM programme. The institute is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), UK, and its Chennai campus is accredited by SAQS and, since 2023, by AACSB, achieving 'Double Crown' status. Great Lakes offers full-time courses such as PGPM, PGDM, and Executive Education, as well as corporate programs including PGXPM, PGPM FLEX, a Diploma in Business Analytics with Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Global Diploma for Family Enterprises Management with Babson College. In 2024, Great Lakes was ranked 34 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in the management category.