Induction programme at IIM Lucknow for its incoming PGP and PGP ABM 2017-19 batch has recently concluded with a higher ratio of women and with more students having greater than last year work experience.
Over the Induction programme of two days, the newly inducted batch was addressed by the Guest of Honour- Mr. Niraj Seth, Executive Vice President, naukri.com (formerly Chief Marketing officer Intuit and Cleartrip); and noted IIM Lucknow alumnus Shri Lakshmi Narayan, Chief Endowment Officer, Azim Premji Foundation.
The new batch of 450 plus Post Graduate students in Management and Agribusiness Management at IIM Lucknow class rooms has witnessed an encouraging improvement in gender diversity with increase in number of female students to 30.4% as compared to 27% last year. The average work experience of the batch has also risen from 11.3 months to 16.6 months. 74% of the new batch has some work experience.
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Changes brought in CAT exam to improve diversity
With a focus on improving the ratio of Non-Engineers, women students and the students with work experience in diverse areas, IIMs modified the entire CAT exam in 2015. More students with non-engineering background and more women candidates were shortlisted by IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow. 28% No-negative-marking questions have been inducted in CAT exam to attract candidates from diverse back grounds.
Top IIMs have changed admission policy
Another key parameter that has helped to increase the ratio of non-engineers in IIM class rooms is the change in admission policy by almost all the IIMs. Following changes in new admission policy of IIMs have encouraged and offered the opportunity to more non-engineers, females to get into IIMs in 2017:
- IIMs have lowered the CAT percentile sectional and overall score requirement for 1st stage shortlisting;
- Less weightage to CAT exam scores are now awarded by IIMs in shortlisting and arriving at the final score;
- Academic diversity weightage is awarded to the candidates coming from non-engineering background
- Women candidates are awarded additional weightage for gender diversity
As a result, during last 2 years, despite scoring below 90 percentile in CAT 2016 exam, top IIMs namely IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow have been able to shortlist and offer admission to such candidates who could increase academic and gender diversity in IIM class rooms.
IIM Lucknow: Women ratio highest after IIMC
Percentage of women in IIM Lucknow among top IIMs is one of the highest closely at par with IIM Calcutta who has been able to almost double its ratio of women candidates this year from 16.4% last year to 31% in 2017-19, IIM Ahmedabad has improved it from 22% last year to 28% this year. The ratio of women at IIM Bangalore has gone down marginally from 28.26% in 2016 to 28.15 percent in 2017.
| Ratio of women | IIM Ahmedabad | IIM Bangalore | IIM Calcutta | IIM Lucknow |
| 2017-19 batch | 28% | 28.15% | 31% | 30.4% |
| 2016-18 batch | 22% | 28.26% | 16.4% | 27% |
What IIMs planned to achieve 2 years ago by introducing a totally revamped CAT exam to improve academic and gender diversity in IIM class rooms, the class profile for PGP 2017-19 batch in all the top IIMs reveals that the goal has been achieved to a large extent.
IIM Lucknow. was established in 1984 and is the 4th IIM in the family of IIMs as it came into being after IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Bangalore. IIM Lucknow is one of top rated B schools in the country. In the Ministry of HRD, Government of India ranking 2017 IIM Lucknow holds 4th position. In 2005 IIM Lucknow expanded its area of influence in management education by setting up a satellite campus for executive education at NOIDA in Delhi NCR making IIM Lucknow as the first IIM to set up such a campus in the country.
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Also See:
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- CAT 2017: IIM Lucknow PGP Admission Chair Prof Neeraj Dwivedi is CAT Convenor
- CAT 2017 in changed pattern: Know all about CAT 2017 exam notification date, registration, pattern, IIM cutoffs
- MBA Ranking 2017: Check MBA Ranking 2017 for top 100 B-schools in India to guide you in MBA admission decision
