The International Management Institute Kolkata (IMI Kolkata) has collaborated with various renowned institutes/ universities on the global front. The institute believes that knowledge sharing is of the utmost importance in this dynamic world and collaborative research assists in addressing and solving regional and global issues.

The idea behind building relations with the foreign universities encompass areas of mutual benefit and interest in terms of research projects, joint conferences/ seminars/ workshops, joint publications, consultancy projects, and exchange programs for students and faculty members. This will help both the parties to gain exposure and understand the cultures at large.

IMI Kolkata Present International Linkages 

Given below are the names of the universities/ institutes that the institute has recently built up relations with:

Collaboration 1:

IDRAC

IDRAC Business School is a French private school with 9 campus sites in France: Amiens, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris, and Toulouse. In addition to these, the B-school has 5 associates campuses in Europe: Dublin and Cork in Ireland, Brno in the Czech Republic, Barcelona and Santander in Spain.
On an international level, IDRAC Business School has developed strong collaboration with 100 partners in 40 countries. Each year more than 400 students study abroad and nearly 200 students from all around the world come for a semester or a year at IDRAC Business School. The school offers a portfolio of business programs strongly oriented towards marketing and management.

Collaboration 2:

ESU

Emporia State University is one of the oldest public universities in the state of Kansas, U.S.A. The collaboration focuses on academic and research activities in the field of business management and business education along with student and faculty exchange programmes and organization of seminars, workshops, and conferences.

Collaboration 3:

CBA
The University of Guelph is a reputed public research university in Canada. This marks IMI Kolkata’s first collaboration in Canada. The cooperation aims at joint research, exchange visits of academic personnel between IMI Kolkata and the College, joint conferences, short duration courses, and management development programmes.

Collaboration 4:

ESC
ESC Rennes School of Business, France and IMI Kolkata have partnered to establish and facilitate educational and academic exchanges between the two institutions in order to support their students and teachers in gathering and exchanging academic and professional experience. The two institutions have agreed to promote mutually beneficial activities in the areas of education and research along with cooperation towards the internationalization of higher education.

Collaboration 5:

SAC
IMI Kolkata in association with Xunta de Galicia has undertaken a student exchange program wherein nominated students from IMI Kolkata has attended a term in Spain and taken courses on International Marketing, International Business and Entrepreneurship.

Collaboration 6:

SASS
Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences was founded in 1978, and it currently has been developed into a research base and center of philosophy and social sciences. The academy is positioned as a premium think-tank in China.

Collaboration 7:

KU
The cooperation agreement between IMI Kolkata and Kunming University of Science and Technology encompasses institutional exchange of faculty and students, development of teaching and research activities related to the areas of interest and competencies. It also covers technical, scientific and cultural activities.

Collaboration 8:

SU

IMI Kolkata has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for academic collaboration with the North South University (NSU), the first private university promoted by several business leaders/philanthropists in Bangladesh, encompassing areas of mutual benefit and interest, such as joint research projects, publications, executive development programmes, exchange programmes for students and faculty members, bilateral consultancy projects etc.

Collaboration 9:

SUC
IMI Kolkata has entered into a student exchange and research collaboration programme with the Sichuan University of China. As a part of the student exchange programme selected Students from the University will study for a trimester at IMI Kolkata and students from IMI Kolkata will study in China with scholarships. Faculty members from both institutes will engage in joint research publications, organization of seminars and conferences of international importance.

Collaboration 10:

UD
IMI Kolkata has engaged with Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, one of the largest universities in Brazil, for research collaboration, student exchange programme, faculty exchange programme, and promotion of joint research publications, organization of seminars and conferences of international significance.

Collaboration 11:

UCK
CEPS - Centre for Business Studies is accredited by the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The collaboration aims at promotion of joint publications and research work, the institutional exchange between the faculty members, developing of teaching and/or research activities related to the areas of interests of IMI Kolkata and CEPS and organizing conferences, short duration courses, and management development programmes.

Collaboration 12:

UPEM
The University Paris -Est Marne-la-Vallee is a public institution with a cultural, scientific and professional character, combining a training policy and the development of research excellence. The collaboration aims at promotion of joint publications and research work, the institutional exchange between the faculty members and students, developing of teaching and/or research activities related to the areas of interests of IMI Kolkata.

Collaboration 13:

UFR

IMI Kolkata has a collaboration with IAE François Rabelais University (Université François-Rabelais) or University of Tours, a public university in Tours, France. The University of Tours has had long term MBA programmes and is an active partner of the International Institute of Kolkata.

Collaboration 14:

UT

The University of Turku, located in Turku in southwestern Finland, is the second largest university in the country as measured by student enrolment, after the University of Helsinki. The collaboration aims at promotion of joint publications and research work, the institutional exchange between the faculty members and students, developing of teaching and/or research activities related to the areas of interests of IMI Kolkata.

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The institute aims to collaborate with more globally renowned universities in the coming future!