The most unique thing about IIM Shillong is that it strongly believes in sustainability and takes serious steps to improvise it. To generate awareness among the students of IIM Shillong, it conducts a one week course, also known as the foundation program, on sustainability where both theory and practical perspectives are taught. There is also a day dedicated to a trek to the hills of Meghalaya, which provides the students a great chance to experience the beauty of nature and to make students realise the importance of nature and its conservation. Apart from that IIM Shillong, situated in the capital of Meghalaya, is blessed with awesome weather, lush green valleys, full bloom forest, beautiful rain, rapid streams and captivating waterfalls. There is never a chance to complain about the weather while studying or working, and nature there has provided a wonderful cool outdoor study space beneath the stars or under the shades irrespective of the time of the day. Another advantage of being in the northeast is that students are exposed to a totally different culture.
Even though having small batch size and fewer participant students of IIM Shillong has won many corporate awards as compare to other b schools, be it in the field of Marketing or finance or be it in any other field. Some of the competitions we have won in the last couple of years include the ones organized by Loreal, Nomura, HSBC, Crisil, Deloitte, CFA Research, Yes Bank and many others.
One of the advantages is a small batch size which helps to develop a lasting relationship with most of the students, peer learning comes into pictures and there is an academic benefit with attention focused on them. We eat together, we stay together, we play together and we celebrate together which gives way to a milieu which is vibrant and full of life. The values & practices also make the students socially aware which encourages them to give back to the society in whatever small ways they can.
Also, IIM Shillong is a student-driven campus, where every student is given a chance to take part in the day to day activities and also the functioning of the institute outside academics and administration. The students are involved in various clubs and committees, making the best of their abilities, discovering hidden talents, building good leadership skills and becoming a team.
The Diversity which is a must needed in every B-schools exists in IIM Shillong. The students are from various academic backgrounds like oena, agri etc and from different states. The students hold great extra-curricular achievements as well, which enables the student body as a whole to learn a lot of things from each other.
All these factors I believe make the students of IIM Shillong stand apart from the rest of the B-school crowd.
ABG Company
I would like to work for Aditya Birla Capital, more specifically in the stocks and securities department. I had a fascination towards trading and I had the opportunity to learn about it in my online training program for beginner’s trading certification. Ever since I had the intent to learn about the intricacies related to trading and apply the skills I have gained from it in real life. This would help me expand my knowledge in this domain and help me gain valuable experience making profits for the company with my newly learned skills and actively learning from my mistakes and improving on them to contribute to the success of the company.
Kshitij Avinash Meshram
PGP 1st Year
IIM Shillong
