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Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar is the 15th IIM set up by the Ministry of Education (earlier Ministry of Human Resource Development) with the support of the Government of Punjab. After the registration of IIM Amritsar Society on July 27, 2015, the first batch for the class of 2015-17 was enrolled in August 2015. Later, on October 14, 2015, IIM Amritsar Board of Governance & Society was constituted.

Being located in Amritsar, the land of the Golden Temple and Wagah Border, the institute benefits from the enriching experience offered by this holy city. The Institute is currently run in the Punjab Institute of Technology Building, 5 km away from the railway station and 10 km from the airport. Its permanent campus will be constructed about 7 km from the ISBT and 8.5 km from the railway station, making it easily accessible.

IIM Amritsar, at present, offers a two-year degree program in Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics (MBA-BA), Master of Business Administration in Human Resources (MBA-HR), Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), and a Doctoral Program in Business and Management with various specializations in the areas of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Accounting and Control, Economics, Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques and (OMQT), Information Technology and Computational Systems, and Strategy. These programs have been designed to provide world-class management education so as to meet the requirements of enterprises across sectors by producing highly insightful management professionals. The institute is committed to imparting strong educational foundations and values in the hearts, thoughts and actions of the future managers. In a short period of nine years since inception, the institute has made a mark in management education for its high-quality education as reflected in the various rankings.

The Institute follows the same pedagogy as practiced by the other members of the prestigious IIM fraternity. With the various facilities like state-of-the-art IT-enabled classrooms, a digital library giving access to the most relevant national and international business and management journals, auditorium, student activity room, indoor & outdoor sports facilities, gymnasium, spacious hostel rooms, etc., IIM Amritsar provides a nurturing environment for its students to learn and grow. IIM Amritsar also focuses on creating an entrepreneurial culture, where the students and faculty work together to create best enterprising solutions.

Besides getting to learn from qualified faculty and industry leaders, the students learn by involving themselves in various clubs, committee activities and social involvement projects. The tireless efforts of our students result in their winning many corporate and B-school competitions and, ultimately, their bagging promising career opportunities. In a true sense, IIM Amritsar makes learning fun, the dreams to nurture, personalities to flourish and careers to change the world.