Goa Institute of Management

The Goa Institute of Management, is a premier business school of India located in the state of Goa.The autonomous school is governed by a board, and offers a full-time MBA program, full-time MBA -Healthcare Management Programme and executive MBA and also is a resource centre for PhD programs in management for Goa University. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 240 students and Healthcare MBA class has a size of 60 students.HistoryLocated at Sanquelim as well as Ribandar, the business school was founded in 1993 when Romuald D'Souza (ex-Director - XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIMB, Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a centre of learning and excellence in Goa. He along with Anwar Ali, C.M. Ramesh, Ranjini Swamy, V. Gopal, Suma Damodaran, and Uday Damodaran founded the institute.CoursesGoa Institute of Management currently offers Post Graduate Diplomas in Management as following:Post Graduate Diploma in ManagementThe Post Graduate Diploma in Management is the flagship programme of GIM. It is a two-year, full-time residential programme. The first year comprises a core programme consisting of compulsory courses on the basics of every discipline in management aimed at developing a common foundation in management theory. The second year of the course consists of electives designed to cater to students' interest and to develop proficiency in the area of their choice. Students need to select one Major and one Minor specialization from among the following offered - Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations. The coursework also requires the completion of an internship between the two years lasting for a total of eight to nine weeks. The current intake of the PGDM course is 240 students per year.