The application numbers point to an unmet demand for sustainability courses that could help land ‘green jobs’
The Indian Institute of Management Mumbai saw a massive jump in admission applications for the academic year 2025-26, its second admission cycle since it was turned into an IIM. While the near fifty-fold increase over the previous year made a lot of noise, the more important figure to look at is how many applications it received for its sustainability management programme.
The institute, which was the National Institute of Industrial Engineering until it became an IIM in August 2023, received a total of 559,887 applications for the academic year. This is especially impressive considering the fact that it only received …
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