Goa Institute of Management
The Goa Institute of Management is a premier business school of India located in the state of Goa.The autonomous school is governed by a Board, and offers a full-time MBA program and executive MBA and also is a resource centre for PhD programs in management for Goa University. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 240 students. GIM was ranked 16th in the 2008 MINT Survey of private B-schools in India.HistoryLocated at Sanquelim as well as Ribandar, the business school was founded in 1993 when Romuald D'Souza (ex Director - XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIMB, Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a centre of learning and excellence in Goa. He along with Anwar Ali, C.M. Ramesh, Ranjini Swamy, V. Gopal, Suma Damodaran, and Uday Damodaran started the institute.CoursesSimilar to most other B-schools in India, GIM currently offers diplomas in management and not degrees. The institute currently offers the following programs.Post Graduate Diploma in ManagementThe Post Graduate Diploma in Management is the flagship programme of GIM. It is a two year, full-time residential programme. The first year comprises a core programme consisting of compulsory courses on the basics of every discipline in management aimed at developing a common foundation in management theory. The second year of the course consists of electives designed to cater to students' interest and to develop proficiency in the area of their choice. Students need to select one Major and one Minor specialization from among the following offered - Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations. The coursework also requires the completion of an internship between the two years lasting for a total of eight to nine weeks. The current intake of the PGDM course is 240 students per year.
