So much is the prominence given to variety in academic backgrounds that for most IIMs award separate marks to aspirants from non-engineering backgrounds during the selection process. Take IIM Shillong, for instance, where we have participants from academic backgrounds like Geography (Me!), History, Literature, Statistics, Psychology, Fashion Technology, MBBS, Law, Agriculture, Commerce, Economics, Computer Science, and Life Sciences apart from those with an engineering degree.
People like me have been and are continuously being embraced with warm hands by institutes like IIM Shillong who value diversity and treasure the different perspectives and knowledge about the world that people from diverse academic backgrounds bring along with them.
All you need to have is competence and you will make the cut. Good Luck!
Author: Udayan Anand, First Year PGDM Student, IIM Shillong
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shrey sundriyal
13 May 2015, 11.56 PM