Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

The Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam (IIMV) is a public business school and Institute of National Importance located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the twenty one Indian Institutes of Management. The institution started the first batch of its Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Management from August 2015.

Academics
The institute offers Post Graduate, Doctoral and Executive Education programmes. The Post Graduate Programme in Management, a two-year, full-time residential MBA programme is the flagship programme, offered to candidates admitted through the Common Admission Test. It is a general, fully integrated management programme and includes courses in accounting, behavioral sciences, finance, economics, human resource management, marketing, business operations, public policy, strategy, entrepreneurship and general management. IIM Visakhapatnam also offers two year part-time executive MBA programme for working executives. From 2019, IIMV started its Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme under the guidance of its mentor IIMB.

In 2019, IIM Visakhapatnam launched an executive programme one-of-its-kind, Post Graduate Program in Digital Governance and Management, leading to the award of MBA degree. This programme is under the aegis of the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

In 2021, the Institute was one of the 9 IIMs selected to deliver the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship program under the SANKALP Scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to train fellows in Public Policy and Management to work with District Administration In 2024, IIM Visakhapatnam launched the Post Graduate Program in Management for CFTIs / INIs, a collaborative initiative with Centrally Funded Technical Institutions and Institutes of National Importance to integrate Management education in the final year of studies at the institutions and give a pathway to earning an MBA after 2 years of study.

Rankings
IIM Visakhapatnam was ranked 29 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) management ranking in 2023.

Campus and location


IIM Visakhapatnam is initially functioning out of the campus of Andhra University, while the permanent campus would come up at Gambhiram on the outskirts of city. In the temporary campus the classrooms are designed as per the Harvard Business School model, as the teaching methodology is case study based. "This semicircle gallery model helps better interaction between the teacher and the students", as per Sourav Mukherji, Dean- Programmes (IIM-B). The land acquisition for the permanent campus is almost complete. The foundation stone for the new campus was laid by Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani on 17 January 2015. The campus is slated to come up on a 240-acre area.

The institute is headed by Director, Prof. Chandrasekhar Mylavarapu, an IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi Alumnus and ex-Director of ASCI, Hyderabad.