IIM Kozhikode inducts MBA batch 2025–27 with over half the cohort women candidates
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) has formally inducted 586 students into its full-time postgraduate programmes for the academic years 2025–2027. Notably, the institute has recorded an overall gender diversity of 51% women across the three MBA programmes.
This is the fourth time in the past ten years that the institute has admitted more women than men to its full-time MBA cohort. The flagship PGP-29 cohort of the IIM-K, consisting of 489 students, includes 55% women, significantly higher than the 36% share of women in the national CAT 2024 applicant pool.
The cohort includes participants of the institute's flagship Post Graduate Programme (PGP), the Post Graduate Programme in Finance (PGP-Fin), and the Post Graduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management (PGP-LSM). The induction ceremony also marked the entry of the 19th batch of doctoral scholars into the institute's PhD-level Fellow Programme in Management (FPM).
The PGP cohort is also academically diverse, with 53% of students from non-engineering backgrounds. In terms of geographical representation, students from Delhi, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh together make up 35% of the batch, while 23 students hail from Kerala, the host state. The PGP-29 batch also includes seven international students from Canada, USA, UK, and the UAE.
Specialised MBA cohorts
The PGP-Finance (PGP-Fin 06) batch comprises 49 candidates, evenly split between engineering and non-engineering backgrounds. The average age of the group is 25.43 years, and the average work experience is 2.51 years.
The PGP-LSM (PGP-LSM 06) batch has 48 students, of whom 60% are women. Notably, 96% of this group comes from non-engineering backgrounds, indicating a continued interest in interdisciplinary approaches to business education.
In its statement, the institute also announced that the 19th batch of the institute's doctoral-level Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) includes 31 scholars, the largest intake in the programme's history. These scholars will pursue research-focused training in various management and allied disciplines.
The formal inauguration was followed by a week-long orientation programme involving sessions with industry leaders, IIMK faculty, government officials, and alumni. Regular academic classes for the new MBA batches will commence on June 30.
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