Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Hyderabad lures top management schools

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad is setting up its campus in Hyderabad. Union minister for human resource development Kapil Sibal will inaugurate it on July 2.

This apart, Narsi Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), rated among the best business schools in India, too will start its new campus at Jadcherla, Mahabubnagar district.

This is all set to come up with an excellent infrastructure in two years involving an investment of approximately Rs 35 crores in the first phase. The classes will commence this academic from a centre in the city.

The GMR group is associating with SCHULICH School of Business, one of the top business schools in the world and is a part of York University, Toronto, Canada.

It is setting up an international business school in Hyderabad, which will make efforts to promote business education with a global perspective.

“The Andhra Pradesh government is attracting the renowned management institutes to start their full-fledged branch campuses in Hyderabad. It is providing necessary infrastructure facilities and favourable environment,” said a statement from Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar’ office.

Hyderabad is already home to ISB, IIIT, IIT, BITS Pilani, Nalsar Law University, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, University of Hyderabad. It also boasts of Institutes of excellence, research and development establishments and a large number of universities.

The state government is committed to make Hyderabad the higher education hub and attract the best learning centres and institutes of excellence in the world to open their campuses here. Last year, Andhra Pradesh also invited IIM- Ahmedabad (IIMA) to set up a satellite campus near Hyderabad. This was supposed to be a seamless campus for which the IIMA will make the admissions for it. The faculty will be part of the IIMA.

The state earlier had also invited Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, CMC Vellore, Birla Institute of Technology (Pilani) and others to set up centres in the state.

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