IIM Kozhikode Sets New Gender Balance

More Than Half The Students Are Now Women

- VIKRAM CHAUDHARY

LAST WEEK, THE Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) announced that its 29th PGP batch (of the academic year 2025-27) has admitted more than 50% female students—of the 489 students, 268 are women.

"This batch has 55% women, against a national CAT 2024 applicant pool of only 36% women," Prof Debashis Chatterjee, director of IIM Kozhikode, told FE.

This marks the fourth time that IIMK has admitted more women than men—it earlier did so in 2013-15, 2020-22, and 2024-26.

But this new gender balance happened neither by accident, nor by design. Prof Chatterjee said IIMK has worked for years on making MBA attractive for females.