In a move that will encourage mid-level executives to take up management education, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow’s (IIM-L) Noida campus has reduced the number of terms of its flagship one year International Programme in Management for Executives (IPMX).
As a part of the review of the IPMX programme, which will enter its fourth year in 2011, the institute has reduced the number of terms from six to four this year.
?The programme is now to be spread across four terms instead of six and the courses will be for a duration of 10 weeks and not six like before. The fourth term is the international module which happens at one of IIM Lucknow’s partner institutes located globally,? said Archana Shukla, dean, IIM Lucknow Noida campus and chairperson, IPMX.
The one year full time residential post graduation programme is meant for senior and mid-level executives to prepare them for leadership roles. The size of the ongoing third batch in IPMX is 48 and next year number will increase to 70. The average work experience of the batch is nine years and GMAT scores are accepted for admission in the programme.
The overseas partners are not fixed and the overseas module of IPMX was held at Canada’s McGill University earlier and this year, it was held in ESCP Paris. The institute is looking at the options across the world including US and China for these international modules. The revamp programme also includes introduction of new features like workshop modules on subjects like CSR, greening strategy on environmental laws and infrastructure laws. ?These are areas where whole courses can’t be constructed around them but are relevant to the industry. Moreover, such modules make the candidature of students stronger,? added Shukla.