Warm and Fuzzy- New Batch Comes to Town

A warm and fuzzy feeling envelops those that see a new batch of youngsters come in to an academic institute every new year -in academics this happens around June. So it did this week, with a new batch of IMTians entering Nagpur, and seniors returning after summer projects. Mr. Warendra Sinha, MD of GIC Housing Finance, inaugurated the new batch, sharing his views about management education.

This year IDBI Federal gave us a lot of internships, and many students did well in them too. Keeping the tightening job market in view, IMT Nagpur has entered into some new areas such as analytics (where we have tied up with IBM) and some more, like creating new courses or new methods of doing them. One such is built around the Bloomberg terminal which we have installed. Students will get assignments where they use live trading and financial data (global), and that should land them some good jobs as specialists trained in the use of the terminal.

We are also embarking on AACSB accreditation for IMT Nagpur, and this will give us global credibility in a few years.

Apart from an academic orientation in the first week, there are outbound activities that sudents undergo, and a session on Golf at our own IMT Golf Link. Fun way to start on an MBA, I guess. And, this year, there are a few IMT Nagpur alums-turned entrepreneurs who are meeting the new batch with their own stories of starting up.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sir, Hume aap ne Golf session kyon ni diye? :(
-Guy from 2011-13 batch

Rajendra said...

Takes time to think of these things. The brainwave happened in 2012 and we are continuing it. Melange may be a good time to do it for u.

Aditi said...

Thankfully some of us got time for a few days Golf session before our convocation :) thank you sir, smita mam and Gadgil sir for giving us Golf lessons :)

keyur bhalavat said...

I still remember how the golf sessions took off... :).. Thank you sir for session of GOLF..

Rajendra said...

Keyur, I do remember you and Aashish playing some. Aditi, you too. Most welcome.
Now, we have a few more regulars from among the new faculty. And there are three women among the regular players.

"Meg's World" said...

Good one Sir! Reminded me of my 1st day @ IMTN in June 2007! The campus must hv changed a lot since then.. and for better!

Rajendra said...

Thanks, Meghana. We probably haven't met, but nice to interact online. I gather you are in our profession at Pune? What do you teach?
Yes, the campus is probably better looking, with trees having grown, compared with 2009.

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