I would like to dwell on my first-hand experiences from the time I stepped foot at IIM Ranchi. The whole administration and academic area reside within the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting building of Jharkhand. The hostel is around 8kms or a 25min college bus ride far from our college premises. Initially, we were unrelentingly unhappy about losing travel time. But spare the cribs!! Couldn't we put that time to productive use through something, for example, reading. We started enjoying it only after we learned to adapt without compromising our priorities.
As perspective be, a problem taught us to respond than react to it (The Cockroach Theory). As the pictures testify, our hostel is located within the greens of fields and the calmness of weathers. The single rooms are quite spacious and the housekeeping is vigilant. The weather is brilliant year-round and there are incessant notifications about cultural/literary/sports activities, the timings of which hysterically are not constrained to exam seasons.
Sheikh Bhikhari (Khelgaon) Stadium, which hosted the 2011 National Games, is substantiating enough to give a picture of the ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities we have access to. From winning prestigious competitions like Mahindra War-room twice, Deloitte Maverick, CFA Research challenge (Zonal) and others, competing with students from all the prestigious IIMs and all manifesting in a brief period since our inception, is evidence to the quality of students and pedagogic capabilities of our faculties.
The students here are very friendly and it's really hard to believe that the complete student affairs (including operational stuff - bus schedules, mess work etc) are managed wholly by students themselves. And much of our curriculum equips us with tools to do it so efficiently. We do what we learn not the other way round. Isn't that better than industry exposure?
There is one thing that every MBA aspirant and every student must understand. A B-school doesn't require humongous acres of land to serve its core purpose – churning efficient managers. What it requires is a talented human capital equipped with adequate resources. Jumping to the academic front, the pedagogy is different in terms of course content and diversity. We have quality guest faculties visiting our campus. The internal faculty is decent having some exceptionally good teachers pertaining to all areas. We are the only IIM offering a full-fledged course in Human Resource Management (HRM). Guess, this explains our extremely good people skills.
Overall I would say that IIM Ranchi definitely is in the lead if the students have a keen motivation to grow by learning and not the other way round.
“Not never falling, but rising every time we fall - Our glory”
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