The IMT Dubai Advantage

Choice of Specializations

Courses covering major management disciplines offer students great flexibility in choosing their specialization from either of the four functional area including Marketing, Finance, Human Resource, Project Management.

Industry Interface

At IMT-Dubai, academics are important, but represent only half of your success. What sets IMT apart is how it prepares you for the real world though it’s strongly industry interfaced program.

Faculty Support

The quality of a business school is best defined by its faculty. At IMT-Dubai the faculty is the living embodiment of the school’s strategic priorities: dynamic, inquisitive, and constantly striving to help the students achieve their scholarly goals.

Network for the Future

IMT-Dubai is the proper scale: classes are small enough that students get to know each other, yet large enough that alumni enjoy a wide network. Strong friendships see the day, and provide the solid network - one of the strongest assets that business schools can provide their students. IMT-Dubai students can also tap into the worldwide IMT network.

State of the Art Campus

IMT-Dubai is located Dubai Academic City, a special purpose zone that hosts universities and other learning institutions. In the five buildings, spread over almost 250,000 square feet, IMT-Dubai offers superior academic, entertainment and residential facilities. Student housing is located within the campus, which is located not very far from Dubai’s main attractions.

Official Accreditation

At IMT-Dubai, we are proud of our official accreditation by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, making us the sole business school from India to have obtained this accreditation. This accreditation certifies that the academic curriculum of the university is of the highest caliber, and of international standards.

Dubai Advantage

As a truly global city, Dubai presents many advantages for IMT-Dubai students.

Dubai has emerged in the last few years as the main business hub of the region covering not only the Middle East but also Central Asia as well as the Indian Sub-Continent. Through its highly competitive and efficient infrastructure, Dubai today serves a market of more than 1.5 billion people and is ranked as the worldís third largest re-export center.

Dubai is also the ideal location for multi-national companies operating in the region with more than a third of Fortune 500 companies present locally. In addition, Dubai has witnessed in the last few years new developments, particularly in the financial and banking industries as well as a wide range of highly specialized and state of art dedicated free zones. As a result, Dubai offers a wide range of employment opportunities to IMTDubai business graduates.

With a booming and largely diversified economy,the development of highly specialized industries and the presence of prestigious companies, living and studying in Dubai is a definitive advantage. IMT-Dubai students are exposed to a cosmopolitan and multicultural society, and can find emplyment in companies hosting people from different parts of the world.

Tete-a-tete with the Director, IMT, Ghaziabad

Dr. Anwar Ali, the newly appointed director of Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad enjoys competition in the education sector and feels research in management is the only way to move forward for business institutions. Following is what he had to say about IMT-Ghaziabad and about IMT as a brand:

What are the unique propositions that IMT-Ghaziabad stands for?
List three ways in which it is different from B-schools in the same league
IMT Ghaziabad is unique in the sense that it starts training of students as managers from day one. All committees are run and managed by the students, which gives them an early exposure to the managerial life. Secondly it offers the largest number of alliances with foreign universities. Exchange programs with these international universities help the students form relationships that enhance their career. We also have an agreement with the Harvard Business School (HBS) through which we buy their case studies on a per student basis, thus providing the students with authentic study material from HBS.

Have the admissions been affected in the light of recession?
What changes have been incorporated in the curriculum to counter recession?
Although the admissions haven’t been affected due to recession, there have been few changes in the curriculum to prepare the students of IMT for recession like situations. We have strengthened the course in risk management and have got the most recent cases from Harvard Business School on how companies collapsed during recession. This is to teach the students the practices in management they should avoid in their careers. We are also teaching students the aspects of the governance of PSUs through which they successfully overcame recession.

What is the general profile of the candidate who is called for GD-PI at the IMT?
What do you look for in a candidate in the GD-PI round; how much weightage is given to work experience?
At IMT, candidates are called for GD-PI solely on the basis of their CAT scores. During the GD-PI round we look for a candidate’s communication skills, confidence and also his passion for management. The weightage given to work experience has been increased from this year although there is no minimum requirement criterion. We have increased the weightage of work experience to initiate more valuable discussion in the classroom, since the students who have worked before will be in a better position to ask relevant questions. This in turn will also encourage our faculty to update itself regularly.

What is the strength of your faculty? How do you ensure that they deliver the best to your students?
We have around 420 (errata: 60) faculty members in our institute. Most of them are involved in research; there are over 150 publications on current topics by our faculty. To ensure that they deliver the best, we have an annual performance management system where we evaluate the faculty member on the basis of units earned. Any member of the faculty is required to earn a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 700 units where 300 units is equivalent to teaching 6 courses. Apart from that there are a number of faculty meetings where issues relating to teaching are discussed openly and thus resolved amongst the members.

How have the placements been affected in the light of recession? What steps have been taken to counter that?
The placements have been affected considering that we took almost five to six months to place the batch that usually took only a couple of days. To avoid such situation in the future, we are targeting more companies and also targeting companies in the sectors that are doing well. Students are also being counseled to take up different kind of jobs, like in profiles apart from marketing and finance which may place them remote areas of the country.

Throw some light on the IMT Dubai campus. How did that come into being?
IMT Dubai was started when Dubai was at its helm of growth and development and the demand for business graduates was high. The target students were both the student population of India and Dubai. We also realized the need for part time MBA for working professionals in Dubai and thus we offer part time MBA with evening classes for people who are already working in Dubai.

What relations do IMT Ghaziabad, IMT Nagpur and IMT Dubai share with each other? Do you think each one of them will become competition to each other in the coming years?
All the institutes of IMT are separate independent institutions and thus just share the brand name between each other. IMT Nagpur was started in 2004 but it has developed faster than any other institute in its league. Talking about competition, we will be happy to compete with more quality institutions in the market and thus will enjoy the competition.