Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management Shillong

Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management Shillong, is a public, fully autonomous management institute in the city of Shillong, Meghalaya. It was the seventh Indian Institute of Management to be established in India.Established in 2007, with a vision of expansion and mobilization of facilities for offering quality management education and research in Northeast India, IIM Shillong differentiates itself by promoting sustainability, also hosting an international conference on sustainability, annually.IIM Shillong offers postgraduate, doctoral, and executive programmes in management education, and Management Development Programmes spanning different streams of management. Admissions to the institute are based on scores obtained in the Common Admission Test . In addition, the institute has a Centre for Development of North Eastern Region, constituted to offer programmes relevant to the local community and society of the state and the region.HistoryThe proposal to start an Indian Institute of Management in the Northeast was unanimously taken in June 2004 by the Union Minister of Human Resource Development along with the Chief Ministers of the North Eastern states in the review meeting held at Shillong. Shillong was drafted as the permanent location for the institute after consultation between the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDONER) and the Chief Ministers of the states.