Icfai Business School (IBS), a relative newcomer in the Indian management school scene, is charting out a major expansion-plan involving construction of new campuses and upgrading existing ones, whereRead

Wigan & Leigh College (WLC), Delhi, is planning to expand the global operations of the 150-year-old UK based college by undertaking a South-East Asian expansion plan. Having an active presence in 32 countries, the college is now planning collaboration with institutes in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore so as to provide local students access to international education.

In an exclusive interaction with the NCR Tribune, Mr Vinay Parischa, director, Wigan & Leigh, spoke on the expansion plans of the college.

Calcutta: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta quickly to competition from a relatively new market by participating Top Notch B-training - IIT Kharagpur.

IIM-C will soon be the face of competition-IIT Kharagpur

The Union Ministry of Human Resources Development has an RS 10 crore expansion plan for the elite Institute of Technology modernization of its management program for the 2004 session. The course is synchronized as the upper management in the country, but the costs are cheaper than IIMS.

IIT-K, which enjoys university status, was a Master of Business Management (MBM), of course, on its Vinod Gupta School of Management, since 1993, but on a small scale, for a handful of students from IIT .

“We had our plans to expand the MHRD last year after the project was launched by our hotel. Our proposals were adopted, and we can now grow meat and bone meal 120 seats in the first year, “Dean of Management Studies IIT’s TNN Kalyan Chakraborty said.

The IIT Kgp-management course is supposedly the best in the country. In addition, IIMS give only a diploma, because it does not have the status of the university, but IIT two years MBM will offer a comprehensive program completion.

However, in the IIT Kgp-management courses will not be easy, because the admission exam is more difficult than CAT. Furthermore, it is only in first class B or BE degree of proprietary technology. First Class degree holders SC-M or M-com or economics may also, if it is mathematics, at least in their graduation.

“Even our royalty rate is less than IIMS - R 90000 per year against their Rs 1.30 lakh. We said that the MHRD subsidize, we could continue, if desired, and increase our endowment,” Chakraborty said. “Our programme is very well be adapted to the needs of industry.

We have our style Business School on the lines of MIT’s Business School - Alfred Sloan Institute of Management. ”

More than 20000 square metres is added to state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories, living rooms and a cafeteria. A hostel with 250 rooms is also built.

The MHRD has promised to participate in its funding, but would IIT-K for the costs of the Foundation Fund for the time being