IIM Kozhikode inducts MBA batch 2025–27 with over half the cohort women candidates
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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