IIMK welcomes MBA cohort 2025-27 with over 50% women
The event was presided over by Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIMK, with Aju Jacob, managing director, Synthite Industries, serving as the chief guest. A total of 586 students across three full-time postgraduate programmes were inducted as part of the ceremony, a press release said.
Like in the previous years, the IIMK has achieved an overall gender diversity of 51% women across its three full-time MBA programmes – the flagship Post Graduate Programme (PGP), PGP in Finance (PGP-Fin), and PGP in Liberal Studies and Management (PGP-LSM). This marks the fourth time in the last decade that IIM Kozhikode has admitted more women than men into its MBA cohort.
The average work experience of the combined cohort stands at two years, and the average age is 24. Students from Delhi, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh make up 35% of the class, with wide national representation. Whereas Kerala, the home of IIMK, is being represented by 23 students.
Besides the three regular full-time programmes, IIMK also inducted its 19th batch of PhD Scholars (Diploma Programme in Management), which at 31, is the largest ever doctoral students batch.
The flagship PGP-29 cohort of 489 students includes 55% women, against a national CAT 2024 applicant pool with only 36% women. The batch is academically diverse as well, with 53% non-engineers and 47% engineers – a reversal of the traditional dominance of engineers in Indian B-schools. The PGP also has seven international students, representing Canada, the USA, the UK and the UAE.
The specialised programmes reflect this diversity too. The PGP-Finance has 49 candidates, evenly split between engineering and non-engineering backgrounds, with an average age of 25.43 years and average work experience of 2.51 years. Also, PGP-LSM has 48 students, with 60% women and a remarkable 96% from non-engineering backgrounds.
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