How an IIM got 50% female MBAs

It happened neither by accident nor by design; IIMK made MBA more attractive for females

- VIKRAM CHAUDHARY

LAST MONTH, the Indian Express published an article titled The changing IIM: Over two decades, more and more women; engineers still dominate but their share dips.

It mentioned that while the percentage of female students has been increasing at most Indian Institutes of Management (IIMS), it had touched almost 50% at IIM Kozhikode in the class of 2022.

Debashis Chatterjee, the director of IIM Kozhikode, has now told FE that it happened neither by accident, nor by design (i.e., there are no reserved seats for women)."We just made the MBA class more attractive for female students," he said.