International Management Institute (IMI) Kolkata is a private business school located in Kolkata, India. It laid its foundation in 2010. The Institute started functioning in the year 2011 with its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA). In 2017, the Institute of six years also obtained the approval from All India Council for Technical Education to launch the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), a Ph.D. level programme. IMI Kolkata's two-year full time PGDM programme is also accorded equivalence with Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree by the Association of Indian Universities(AIU). The first fresh batch of students at IMI Kolkata graduated in the year 2013. Campus placements at IMI Kolkata shot up in the year 2014 with hundred percent of the students securing placements at some of the most renowned organizations like Deloitte, JSW Group, CESC Limited, ICICI Bank, PwC, KPMG, Yes Bank, Tech Mahindra, Xiaomi, Amazon, Flipkart and several others. History IMI Kolkata belongs to the IMI family of B-Schools in India. IMI came up with its first campus at New Delhi in the year 1981. IMI New Delhi was established in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD Lausanne) and carries the title of being the first corporate sponsored B-school in India. During its inception, the institute was backed by the support of big corporate houses such as RPG Enterprises, Nestle, ITC, SAIL, Tata Chemicals, BOC and Williamson Magor. It was in 2010 that the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group decided to expand and start two more campuses in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar Academics Ranking In 2020, IMI Kolkata was ranked 52nd among management institutes in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). IMI Kolkata is also a part of Study in India programme, under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. International collaborations and partnerships In 2011, in order to facilitate joint research in retail and other areas, IMI entered into an agreement with the Oxford Institute of Retail Management (OXIRM). The basic objective of the research programme was to influence public policy decision makers on retail development issues and retail practitioners through data-driven retail and consumer-related research outputs among others. Subsequently, the Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with various eminent institutes/universities on the global front. The agreements are aimed at mutual support, confluence of ideas, knowledge sharing, joint research and consultancy as well as scholarly exchanges that encompass