THE DEGREE:
Read the FINE PRINT.
“IIPM conducts its own programmes in Planning & Entrepreneurship (a non professional course) and does not teach any foreign institute’s courses... The MBA/BBA degrees are conferred by IMI, Europe and is internationally renowned and does not come under the purview of AICTE, UGC or other state acts.”

Read that last line again. “DOES NOT come under the purview of AICTE, UGC or other state acts.”  What this means is that the degree that you get from IIPM is NOT RECOGNISED by any Indian central or state university.

The degree that IIPM provides is from the IMI, Europe. Despite our best efforts we were unable to find a ranking for the management programme at IMI. Several students told us that when they asked their professors at IIPM about IMI, the professors were clueless as well.

We spoke to students from the 2002-04 batch who told us that they still hadn’t received their degrees. Whenever they called the IIPM office to find out about the status of the same, they were greeted with the same reply - “It’s coming from Delhi.”

IMI, Europe: The International Management Institute, Europe is the institute that gives degrees to IIPM students. According to their website (www.timi.edu) IMI has two branches in Belgium - one in Antwerp and another in Brussels. Here’s some information we dug up about the institute. ● It offers a one-year full time MBA, and a part-time programme as well. ● According to Businessweek magazine, in 2004, the total graduate business students enrolled in the college were just 65, of which 35 were part of the Full time programme, and 30 were part-time students. For a school that gives degrees to over a thousand students in India, this is a stark statistic.

We have mailed Mr. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Delhi offices to query him about the facts that we unearthed. Despite several phone calls, emails and faxes, we are yet to receive a reply.