The Goa Institute of Management, is a premier business school of India located in the state of Goa. The autonomous school is governed by a board, and offers a full-time MBA program, full-time MBA -Healthcare Management Programme, two-year PGDM in Big Data Analytics and executive MBA and also is a resource centre for PhD programs in management for Goa University. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 240 students and Healthcare MBA class has a size of 60 students.
History
Located at Sanquelim as well as Ribandar, the business school was founded in 1993 when Romuald D'Souza moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a centre of learning and excellence in Goa. He along with Anwar Ali, C.M. Ramesh, Ranjini Swamy, V. Gopal, Suma Damodaran, and Uday Damodaran founded the institute.
Rankings
GIM-Goa was ranked 26 by Business Todays "India's best B-schools 2019" and 34 in India by Outlook Indias "Top 150 Private MBA Institutions" of 2020.
Campuses
Heritage campus
The campus was initially situated on the banks of the Mandovi River, in the Santa Casa de Misericordia in Ribandar. The building in which the school is housed is supposed to be one of the earliest hospitals in India and was converted from a hospital building to a business school campus in 1993. The 2011 batch was the last full-time batch to pass out from this campus. Now the campus is used only for conducting PGDM–Part Time courses.
Sanquelim campus
From the year 2010, GIM shifted most of its academic courses to a new state-of-the-art campus located around 23 kilometers from the old one. The new campus at Sanquelim in Bicholim Taluka is located on a sprawling 50 acre plot surrounded by the idyllic foothills of the Western Ghats. The entire project cost has been estimated at approximately Rs 63 crore. The new campus was inaugurated by Ashok Ganguly, Rajya Sabha MP and former Chairman of Hindustan Lever Ltd on 24 March 2012. The Sanquelim campus is primarily divided into the following :
Admin block
Faculty block
Academic block
Library
Cafeteria
Vendor Outlets Currently there are three vendor outlets, 1. Jaggu's store for daily essentials 2. Kailash's fruit juice and beverage store 3. DFC for fast food
Amphitheater
The multi purpose hall
Badminton courts
Basketball court
Swimming pool
Student hostels There are currently 9 hostels; H1 to H9. The hostel H9 is currently under construction.
Recognised by the Government of Goa and by many of the major industrial corporations in the country
Associate member of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, which facilitates linkages for collaboration and exchange among some 60 Business Schools in 25 different countries in various parts of the world.
Hosted joint study projects for two years in which 12 MBA students of Ohio University, under the guidance of their faculty, have worked with 12 GIM students in teams of four on projects assigned to them by local industries.
Ongoing tie-up with the University of Antwerp for facilitating student interaction and joint study.
It is a lecture series for students and faculty by eminent personalities organised around the academic year. Some of the most recent speakers have been:
Anil Agarwal, Founder and Executive Chairman, Vedanta Resources
