IIM Ahmedabad, also known as IIMA, was the first of the string of IIMs to be established in India. It is the premier institute of management education in India and is widely considered to be the toughest to get in MBA program in the world. IIMA has frequently been rated as one of the best business schools in Asia.

It was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and the Indian Industry. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, a noted scientist and industrialist and other Ahmedabad based industrialists played a major role in the creation of the Institute.

IIMA was conceived not to be purely a business school, but a school of management. Its mission is to professionalise Indian management through teaching, research, training, institution building and consulting. It also aims to professionalise some of the vital sectors of India's economy such as agriculture, education, health, transportation, population control, energy, and public administration.

In its formative years, IIM Ahmedabad collaborated with the Harvard Business School (HBS). Largely as a consequence of this collaboration, IIMA pioneered the case method of teaching in India. Even now the strength of IIMA is its strong emphasis on the case method.

The campus of IIMA is dominated by the baked brick style favoured by the its chief architect, the famous Louis Kahn. All the structures are designed to be part of a whole and looks one integral whole.

As of January 2005, there are 27 dorms in IIMA, each of which can hold 25-44 students in single-person rooms. Each dorm has its own distinctive culture and traditions. Work on a new campus is going on as on 2005. The new campus is just across the road from the old campus and houses 9 of the 27 dorms and some class rooms and seminar halls.

Weblinks

• Official website
• Photo Collection of Campus