The Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi, IIM-R) is a public business school located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. IIM Ranchi was established in Ranchi on 15 December 2009 and began classes on 6 July 2010, under the 11th Five Year Plan. The institute offers various managements courses like Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Doctorate in Business Administration and Management (PhD), Post-Doc Fellowship Programme, 5-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM BBA+MBA) and Executive MBA Programmes. History The 11th Five-Year Plan, endorsed by the National Development Council in December 2007, envisaged the establishment of six new IIMs. IIM Ranchi, like all other IIMs, is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. The institute is free to design its own curriculum and recruit faculty members. In April 2011, Union Minister Kapil Sibal announced that the government is mulling enhancement of the autonomy of IIMs by allowing them to select the director and the chairman of the board of directors. IIM Ranchi is amongst the six new IIMs that were approved by the Union Cabinet on 27 August 2009. M. J. Xavier was the founding director of the institute. Campus From its establishment in 2009, IIM Ranchi operated from a temporary campus in Suchana Bhavan, behind the Governor House premises in the heart of Ranchi, with student hostels at Khelgaon. In 2021 the institute started moving to a permanent campus, on a plot of 60 acre plot in Dhurwa. Academics Academic programmes IIM Ranchi offers a master's degree in management as per the approval of the Indian Institute of Management Bill, 2017. Students are awarded degrees under two-year full-time residential programs, MBA, MBA-HRM and MBA-BA. IIM Ranchi also offers Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) fellowship programmes and a part-time executive program (PGEXP). Further, IIM-R is now aming the five IIMs to offer the five-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM). Rankings IIM Ranchi was ranked 15 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) management ranking in 2022. Admissions Admission to post-graduate courses8 at IIM Ranchi is done based on merit in the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the IIMs. For the five-year IPM (BBA+MBA) course, IIM-R accepts applications through IIM Indore's IPM AT as well as CollegeBoard's SAT. Students shortlisted on the basis of their test scores and Class 12 exams face a Personal Interview (PI) round. Student life As of 2019, the total student body consisted