IIM Ahmedabad Executive MBA (PGPX)-Admissions 2024, Fee Structure, Eligibility, Placements

IIM Ahmedabad is the second oldest IIM in India to be established in the year 1961. Consistently ranked as one of the best Business Schools in the Asia – Pacific Region, the institute offers various EQUIS accredited Post-graduate Diploma programs, an Agri – Business Management Program, a Doctoral program, and several programs for the Executives.

Course Structure

IIM Ahmedabad offers a full time one-year Postgraduate Diploma course for executives (PGPX), for students who have completed 27 years of age having a Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in any discipline. The course is open to executives of all nationalities.

The course primarily is broken down into six sections throughout the year including:

• Induction: Introduction to the course
• Building Blocks: Improving upon the core subjects for the course
• Preparing for Top Management: Differentiating subjects in the PGPX program
• International Immersion: A two week international academic exposure program
• Electives: For specialization in the PGPX program
• Capstone: Business Simulation Exercise

How to Apply?

The admission for every year is done in two admission cycles. To apply for the PGPX course for the academic year of 2016 – 2017, the student must follow the following instructions:

• Register with the GMAT ID on the institution online application website: iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/pgpx
• Complete the application form following the instructions as required on the corresponding site.
• Submit the application form along with the respective fees of the application (Rs3500/- for Round 1, and Rs5000/- for Round 2)
• The application does not require any additional submission of Recommendations or essays.

The candidates are not required to produce any TOEFL/IELTS exam score for English proficiency and a minimum AWA score of 3.5 in the GMAT is considered for the course admission. The students although are not required to submit any recommendations, are required to submit essays whose topics will be announced along with the shortlisting for personal interviews. However, the successful candidate will have to provide 3 references.

Admission Procedure

The institute selects 3 times the admissible number of students for the personal interviews, based on the Total Application Rating (TAR) of the student, which is calculated based on the GMAT Entrance Exam score, Educational qualifications with due consideration to professional degrees, work experience, etc.

After the personal interviews, a final merit list is prepared based on the Personal Interview score, and the TAR score through a confidential method of the admissions committee of the college, to final offer the admission letter. However, the candidate must possess the following qualities for admission into the said course:

• Good GMAT Entrance exam score (Average score range: 695 to 728)
• Good academic background (Professional degrees are also taken into consideration, some students have also had PhD’s)
• Substantial Work experience in supervisory/ managerial role.
• A clear idea of why the candidate prefers IIMA for the PGPX course.

Eligibility Criteria

For admission to the PGPX course at IIMA, the institute prescribes the following basic eligibility criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any discipline (With a minimum of 15 years of education under the 10+2+3/4 education scheme)
• Minimum age of 27 years as of 31^st March of the corresponding year, the student applies to the course.
• GMAT score obtained in the last four years of stat of the program (For 2016-2017 course GMAT scores from April 1, 2012 are valid)

Placements

The highest salary offered at IIMA for the PGPX course in the year 2014 is Rs1.1Crore International, and Rs56 Lakhs Domestic. The average domestic salary offered to the course graduates is Rs26, 74, 736/- and the average international salary offered is $144, 040 (Rs87, 86, 440/-). The institute has perhaps one of the best placements in the country, with recruitments from high profile companies such as Google, McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Accenture, HCL, KPMG, etc.

The latest placements report can be accessed at here
The following snapshot from the report shows that for year 2014-15 the maximum domestic salary offered was 55L while international salary was $207K (approximately 1Cr).

Ranking

IIMA is perhaps one of the best institutes in the world for MBA and is ranked 26^th among the best institutes worldwide by The Financial Times in its 2015 ranking survey. Additionally, IIMA was 2^nd in the “Career Progress Rank”. IIMA has been consistently ranked 1^st in the past 5 years by Business World, Business India, Business Today and Outlook.

In FT Global MBA Rankings 2016 PGPX was ranked at 24th position.

Scholarships

Although the institute does not offer any scholarship options with the program fee, the following scholarships have been given after the completion of the program:

• The ITEC Scholarships for Non-Indian Students
• Gold Medal for the top ranked student, additionally the top 5% students get a certificate and cash prize of Rs20, 000/- each
• Arun Duggal award for all round excellence in PGPX, with a cash prize of Rs50, 000/-
• The rising star award of academic merit for PGPX with a cash prize of Rs1, 00, 000/-
• PGPX Social Outreach Award with a certificate and cash prize of Rs1, 00, 000/- shared between a maximum of 2 students.

Fee Structure

The fee for the course will be informed along with the admission offers made in December 2015 for the 2016-2017 course. The current batch has an academic fee of Rs24, 00, 000/- ($38, 000) for the course. The course fee is usually a packaged or bundled fee including tuition, books, accommodation facilities, international immersion, library, alumni, placement, computing and network charges, etc.

Important dates

The important dates for the admission into the PGPX -2016 – 17 course are:

Event		Round #1		Round #2
Application Fee		Rs. 3500/-		Rs. 5000/-
Last date to apply		Monday, September 14, 2015		Monday, Nov 16, 2015
GMAT Validity Dates		April 1, 2012 to September 13, 2015		April 1, 2012 to Nov 15, 2015
Shortlisting for interviews		Oct 16, 2015		Dec 4, 2015
Personal Interviews		November 2015		Dec 2015, Jan 2016
Result Announcement		Nov 30, 2015		Jan 31, 2016
Last date to accept offer		Dec 15, 2015		Feb 15, 2016
Program Starts		April 14, 2016
Program Ends		March 11, 2017
Convocation		Last Saturday of March 2017.