The six Indian Institutes of Management will start more courses and increase their intake in several existing ones from the coming academic year.
This follows a directive from the human resources ministry to broadbase their activities in sync with the changing economy.
IIM-Ahmedabad will have an executive MBA programme, which will have 50 seats. The other programmes that will be on offer at the premier institute are: global managers (one year, 30 seats) and leading and managing (one year, 80 seats).
IIM-Calcutta will have a one-year programme for the development of entrepreneurs, with 300 seats, while IIM-Lucknow's Noida campus will start a 50-seat certificate programme in management for defence officers having a six-month duration.
IIM-Kozhikode will begin a 100-seat executive MBA programme via the distant education module.
Besides, IIM-Ahmedabad, will increase capacity in its existing fellow programmes in management and development to 20 and 40 seats against the present 15 and 30 seats, respectively.
IIM-Bangalore, will increase the number of seats in its post-graduate programmes in management and software enterprise management to 260 and 150 against the existing 180 and 120.
The post-graduate programme in agri-business management at IIM-Lucknow, will admit 60 students against the existing 30.
IIM-Indore will increase the number of seats in its executive post-graduate programme in management to around 60 compared with the current level of 20, while IIM-Kozhikode, will raise to 180 the number of seats in its post-graduate programme in management against the existing 120.