The article is about the unique campus of IIM Udaipur. A campus which might be undoubtedly unique even amongst all the IIMs or B-school campus in India. Therefore, I would like to put the spotlight on the campus and take you on a ride around the campus in the hope of you also getting on board with my claim about the campus.
What makes our campus Unique?
So basically before joining IIM Udaipur like many of us, I was in a great dilemma. I come from an engineering background with B.Tech from NIT Jaipur and work experience of 22 months in TATA MOTORS. First of all, leaving such a lucrative job and going for MBA that too from India was itself a tough decision to make but I always had a desire to skill my management skills and the desire strengthened after working with TATA MOTORS, hence I decided to give CAT and join a B school which will sharpen my management skills.
IIM Udaipur is located around 12km from Udaipur main city which is one of the busiest tourist attraction of in India. IIM Udaipur became operational from 2011 in a temporary campus located in a Polymer Science Building, Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU). Its main campus is at Balicha area of Udaipur which have around 253 acres of land. The best thing about IIM Udaipur location is that it is far from the city and located in mountains far from the rush of the city.
It was August 2014 when I first glanced upon the TIME posters offering CAT classroom coaching while I was in the third year of my under graduation. I decided to give the preliminary scholarship test for coaching. As a student of BITS Pilani, I always planned on getting into IIM ABCL XL or FMS. Then I checked the admission criteria of top IIMs and felt that though it was difficult, it was worth giving a try. Then, I enrolled myself for the coaching classes at Pilani.
My decision to join Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli came after over 2 years of soul-searching or introspection and a significant amount of research and enquiry on the quality of the institution, and has turned out to be among the wisest decisions I have made so far in life.
Yes! this is what IIM Trichy stands for me. Holding onto all the emotions while leaving office and coming to college all over again was a strenuous decision to make. With all sorts of thoughts running through my head and confused as to if I would be able to make it through the next 2 years after working for almost 2 years.
It was just the second day of orientation for the new batch of 2018-2020 PGPM programme and we were supposed to have a guest lecture on “Social entrepreneurship” by Mr Swapnil Tiwari. When I read the subject of the lecture, I kept on thinking what is Social entrepreneurship? How do you mix social cause with the entrepreneurship?
