KIIT School of Management
KIIT School of Management is a private business school located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It was established in 1993 as the Institute of Business Administration and Training. It is a constituent institute of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology.
KIIT School of Management is one of the 10 private institutes in India and the only one in Odisha to get "Institution of Eminence" tag from UGC, MHRD, Govt. of India.
The institute was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council in 'A' grade. It offers the two-year Master of Business Administration program along with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a doctoral program in Management. The institute also regularly conducts Management Development programs for working executives.
The institute conducts its own national-level entrance examination called KIITEE Management held in January each year. It also accepts CAT, GMAT, CMAT, MAT and ATMA scores for admission.
History
The school was founded in 1993 as Institute of Business Administration and Training by Pradyumna Kishore Bal, an eminent thinker and pioneer of value-based journalism. The institute started a two-year post-graduate diploma in Management with an annual intake of 60 students in a rented building in Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, which were revised to 120 seats in the year 2002. Later on in 2004, it was affiliated to Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology.The successive directors of KSOM were Arindam Banerjee, M.L. Monga, Ramesh Chandra Pani, D.V. Ramana, Govind Rajan, H.R. Machiraju, L.K. Vaswani and Deepak Gandhi, Anil Bajpai and Debasis Das., Prof. Anil Bajpai is the director and Prof. Satya Narayan Misra the current dean.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India has placed Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in the list of Category ‘A’ Deemed Universities on the basis of Tandon Committee recommendations.