indian institute of management udaipur

Once again IIM Udaipur has topped the charts for us! The IIM-U has left behind IIM-A in research rankings and has made the city proud. Last year as well, IIMU got hold of the 4^th position in the same domain for the period 2012-2016.

This year, IIMU has grabbed the third spot, while Indian School of Business – Hyderabad and IIM – Bangalore have taken the first two positions.

The ranking list has been released by UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management, Texas. The ranking is based on the research contributions by the top business schools in India. UT Dallas has formulated a list of the top 24 research journals worldwide and ranked the contributions made by each business school in terms of papers published between years 2013 to 2017.

Prof Janat Shah, Director of IIMU enlightened about the papers published by the B-School. Four papers have been published by research faculty of IIMU in the top journals, getting them an average score of 1.27, which has made them fall in the first five in the ranking.

The top ten ranking list goes as follows:

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Indian Institute of Management, Kolkatta
Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Institute of Rural Management Anand
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal

Have a look at the papers published by our IIMU to have knowledge of the echelon obtained by the B-school.

IIMU publications in A category journals: 37 papers
Two research projects approved each year, with an allocation of Rs 3.25 lac per project faculty
12 lac given under research incentive plan
Travel, both national and international seminar and workshop participation
Guest faculty also gave research opportunities
IIMU publications in B category journals: 140 papers
Two committees to manage research priorities
50% faculty allocated towards research projects

The brand new campus of IIM Udaipur in Balicha is going to thrill everyone with its accomplishment as well fresh start in the upcoming year. The campus is exclaimed to be the largest and one of the best campuses in the Indian Education Institutions. Located outside the city, spread across 253 acres of land, the campus will be symbolic remark with the grandeur greenery, splendid construction design, and innovative architecture.

Land View

After laying the foundation stone by education minister Smriti Irani in the year 2015, it began with the working of 1800 labours to complete the building at an allotted time. And, with its formal start, now the construction has raised on a quick note. By the results of hard work first contour is completed in which furnishings and interiors are about to finish. Divided into the three phases, as per given estimation, all the phases will be constructed at the outlay of 500 crores.

Academic Block

As per the previous location, the new campus of IIM Udaipur will also have the same facilities as of old college but with additional touch in interiors and increased amenities. The new campus has a capacity of 330 classrooms – A mini auditorium with 8 fully-equipped main classrooms that provides seating of 77 each with the large noise-proof arena. Along with that, there will be a sufficient number of faculty chambers, Placement and Administrative Offices, Library, Canteen, Gymnasium, Bloomberg laboratory, and a one of a kind Gazebo. Washrooms of the academic block will be of universal style for the comfort of those who have difficulty with the regular ones. Also, there are spaces allotted for the clubs that fill up the requirement for the same. For better convenience, Academic area and Hostel zone are joined with the highway i.e. a world class connector. And, the interesting part is that everywhere there will be the parking for cycles and the whole campus will be cycle driven for maintaining the eco-friendly environment.

Hostel Zone

By moving to the den of students, three hostels house are framed in the campus of IIMU that will be equipped with all the required amenities like washing machines, refrigerators, water coolers, microwaves and induction ovens. Air-conditioned rooms for the single occupancy are perfect in place with large windows. And, to make the stay comfortable for differently able students, there are individual rooms in every hostel.
Hostel Complex will also have the necessary sports facilities like – Pool Table in the mess hall, Table Tennis, Small basketball and badminton courts, Volleyball ground, Mini Gym, etc. And, once you step outside the hostels, you can enjoy the breathtaking view cradled in the mountains of Aravali. Also, there are large quadrangles attached to every hostel where social events will take place. A large playground is enclosed to the hostel for cricket and football matches. The campus and hostels are meant to be fully Wi-Fi enabled, and LAN ports will also be available for the students in every hostel room.

Food Takeover

Hostels are found to be most offended regarding food. But, in IIMU facility of food is involved to be the most important for gourmets. Mess food and night canteen will be available for students to fight the hunger. As per details from the inside authorities, the food court will also come up in time along with a cafeteria. Additionally, there will be a lakeside coffee lounge and a health food café in the sports lounge.

Water, Cleanliness, and Electricity Aspect

According to the authorities, there will be five lakes inside the new campus out of which one has a capacity of 57 million litres and will always be filled with water. Rest of the four lakes will have the harvesting system. As per resources, the water harvest zone is not present in other campuses of Indian Institute of Management which is definitely a unique factor of IIM Udaipur. And, for the clean surrounding, the zero-waste facility will be concerned in coming years for utilizing Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems, vermin-composting, and biogas production. For electricity generation, later on, solar power farm will be implemented on campus.

Udaipurites!! A clean, green campus with all the desirable facilities, we guess by visualizing it on the imagination counterpart, IIM Udaipur is going to be the boom for not only Udaipur but in all over India. So, just don’t miss to see it complete in 2017 and as per information part of the campus will be operational this November.