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Goa Institute of Management
The Goa Insitute of Management (GIM) is a Management School located in the state of Goa, India.
The autonomous school is governed by a Board, and offers a full-time MBA (PGDBM) program (2 years) and executive MBA (3 years) and also is a resource center for PhD programs in Management for Goa Universtity. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 120 students, divided into two sections (A & B). Each section takes classes together the first year, with the intention of forming deep social bonds. Graduation rates are very high. Teaching is almost exclusively done through case teaching (also referred to as the Socratic method), where the students prepare teaching cases and discuss them in class.
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History
Located on the banks of the scenic Mandovi river in Goa, the school was started in 1993 when R.D'Souza S.J. (ex Director - XLRI (Xavier Labour Relations Institute), Jamshedpur and XIM (Xavier Institute of Management), Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a center of learning and excellence in Goa.
Infrastructure
The Campus, located on a hillslope, is housed in a Heritage Building dating back to the Portugese Rule in Goa and has all the charm of the old world. The building, in which the school is housed, is supposed to be one of the earliest Hospitals in India and only in 1993 was converted from a Hospital building to a Business School Campus.
The Campus is divided in the following blocks.
- Admin
- Library
- Office
- Operations Theatre
- Morgue
- Hill Top
- Ladies Hostel
- Joes'
- Quad
- Mess
- Jaggus
Digital Infrastructure
The School has LAN and 100 MBPS Leased Line.
Library
The library has all the essential management books referred by the students and also has online databases like Proquest, CMIE and EBSCO.
External Links
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