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IIM-Lucknow rated India's top business school

Sharat Pradhan, in Lucknow

The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow got the best gift it could have hoped for this festival season -- being rated India's number one business school.

The rating came from Business India, a prestigious business magazine, in its latest issue that hit the stands Saturday.

Graded on parameters like industry interface, infrastructure, growth, placement performance and intellectual capital, the performance of the IIM in the Uttar Pradesh capital was found to be "highly impressive".

The three other IIMs -- at Ahmedabad, Calcutta and Bangalore -- lagged in the ratings.

"From the sixth position in 1999 to the top now, it has really been a big stride for us," said Pritam Singh, the proud director of the Lucknow institute.

"I have never regarded the institute as a simple school running MBA programmes," Singh told IANS.

"For me, it has been much more than that -- a holistic business school, where traditional human values and philosophy are uniquely blended with the science of management."

The Lucknow institute had earned laurels for top placements last year, and for its success with special management development programmes for senior executives, research and consultancy.

According to Singh, the success of the management development programmes had a lot to do with the institute's stride to the top.

"Apart from a special business forum attended by about 60 CEOs of leading Indian business houses, it was our management development programmes attended by top managers of well known companies that set the ball rolling for us in the corporate mainstream of the country," the director pointed out.

Singh has big plans in store for his school. In the next five years, IIM-Lucknow is to introduce a global management programme for young managers from across the world.

"But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is setting up another campus in Noida (bordering New Delhi), besides an overseas one," he added.

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