Girl Power at IIM Calcutta 30% of intake.

6 November 2017 · by Cetking

KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Management's KOLKATA branch has registered a two-fold rise over last year in the number of women admitted for the 2017-19 batch.
With women accounting for 31% of the new students, this batch boasts of the highest female representation at IIM-C to date. This is also the strongest girl squad among the top three IIMs - Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta - in recent memory.

"The girls performed incredibly well in the interview and got through on their own steam," IIM-C admission chairperson Pritam Basu said. The only push that they got, Basu added, was at the pre-interview stage, where women were marked up "a little" after the CAT scores. Previous years saw women getting three extra points (out of 100) at the pre-interview stage. "This year girls were given two extra marks out of a total 50 marks (or 4%). This mark-up was part of a deliberate policy change to bring more gender diversity on the campus," Basu said.

IIM -C has been able to get an average representation of 20%-22% for women in each batch over the past few years, but the one admitted in 2016 saw a sharp drop, falling to 16.4%, and this set the alarm ringing, IIM-C officials said, explaining the "slight mark-up" this year. "There has been no official mandate but the institute has always aimed at having a more diverse classroom," economics professor and former IIM-C dean Anindya Sen said.

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