The IPM course is a five-year integrated course in management and after completion, you will be awarded an IPM diploma and not a degree. In order to do so, IGNOU was introduced to offer IPM students a degree.

IIM Indore has taken care of students needs who are willing to appear for further competitive examinations such as UPSC and others. Getting a degree will help them to apply for higher education.

In IGNOU, you can choose any subject as your graduation subject and many students even choose B.A or B.Com as their subject. If you wish to opt for 3 years, then you will have to give exams for IGNOU from where you will get your BA or B.Com degree. The students who complete their post-graduation get a PGDM and the students who opt for IPM get an IPM diploma. 

Previous batches of IPM at IIM Indore have performed excellently in placements and bore good results. You will be recruited based on your capabilities during the placement season. Being an IPM student, you can sit with PGP students for placements. 

This year’s placements were conducted virtually. The highlights of the placement season of 2021 are:

• In spite of the hurdles created by Covid 19, 100% placement was achieved.
• The average salary offered was INR 23.60 LPA.
• The top 100 students were offered an average salary of INR 33 LPA.
• The highest domestic salary offered was INR 41.50 LPA.
• The highest international salary offered was INR 56.80 LPA.
• 210 recruiters, which included 40 new ones participated in the placement season this year.
• 69% of the batch was recruited by consulting, finance, sales, and marketing.

This year, the IPM students of IIM Indore have achieved 100% placements.

Yes it is compulsory for all the students of IIM Indore studying IPM to stay at the campus hostel knows as Student Residents. The reason behind this rule is that this program includes a lot of projects, assignments and group activities for which you will have to stay at the campus for long hours. In order to have a smooth running of the program, you have to stay at the hostel.

The condition of the hostel rooms is very good and the facilities available are among the best. The rooms are provided with all the necessary things such as beds, mattresses, tables, chairs and a big wardrobe for every student. The rooms are attached with washrooms and a balcony. There is also an internet connection available with a separate LAN port for every student. 

Hence, all the IPM students of IIM Indore have to stay at the campus hostel, but the facilities available at the hostel are very good and students can completely enjoy their stay at the hostel. 

The integrated MBA program at IIM Indore or as the name goes, the IPM program would be the best option to go for if you are not interested in the technological field or any other field and you want to start your own business or get placed at a good company in the field of management.

If some other field of study interests you then I would suggest you go for the same and not for the IPM program and regret it later.

As far as the placements are concerned, even though I do not know much about it, I am pretty sure you will get placed with a good company and IIM Indore is a reputed B-school.

One of my cousins is a student of IIM Indore. Let me share his experience which might give you a basic idea. 

He says that you can definitely leave the IPM program after the initial 3 years, but it will not reap benefits at the end of the day. Your choice can allegedly become futile.

You can undeniably leave following the initial 3 years of the IPM program, but because it is an integrated 5-year course, you are not supposed to receive any sort of certification or testimonial after the completion of the first 3 years of your study program. 

You will significantly have to leave with an IGNOU degree and 3 years of IPM education that is not vitally certified or even recognized. Leaving a course midway will definitely not be helpful, since the only accessible certification you will go on to receive is from IGNOU. It can possibly be extremely difficult to further acquire admission in any other renowned B-school following your dropout. Thus, leaving mid-course is not highly recommended. 

The fee structure for the first years of IPM is as follows:

The total estimated payment for the first three years is 3,70,000. With this, a caution deposit of Rs. 50,000 is also required at the time of registration. This sum is refundable.

The fee structure for the 4th and 5th year of IPM (after combining with PGP) is consistent with the fee structure of the PGP Batch at the time. It is currently around 4 lakhs per annum.

The majority of coaching classes often confuse the real purpose and meaning set behind an IPM programme. Surprisingly enough, they mostly treat it as they do to a regular BBA+MBA programme, without actually recognising the difficulty level essentially associated with it. 

• The difficulty level of IPMAT is several steps ahead of a general BBA examination. 
• Coaching centres function by preparing aspirants for the upcoming CAT exam or a general management entrance coaching.
• Rather than seeking advice from coaching centres, you can avail a specialized mentorship. Either from the students of the respective institute who have recently cleared the IPMAT exam, or choose visiting professors from the admission committee. 
• If you think it is not possible, then seek guidance from the alumni network or the current students. 
• Follow the previous year’s papers and understand the pattern of the questions. You can also seek help from the internet. 

Paying a bulky fee to coaching centers can oftentimes prove to be unnecessary. Your self-study, mostly combined with a vivid general knowledge, can suffice the needs of the exam. 

This is something that will vary according to the year of admission. For any category, students up to a certain rank are decided according to the seats they have and are given provisional admission letters. 

Thereafter if any student among them does not accept the offer and any seat is left vacant then only the next ranked candidate is offered the seat.

In previous years in the general category, students till the rank of 58 were offered the provisional admission letters and all others beyond the rank were in the consideration pool in case some students did not accept the offer.

My brother is a student of IIM Indore and according to him, the IPM program offered by the institute is not that good. Also, no other IIM offers IPM, which does say something about the course. 

Compared to the course fees, the average package offered to the students is less. So the ROI for the IPM program is not that great. Here is a brief outline of the IPM program. 

Also, you will not receive any proper undergraduate degree instead you get only an IGNOU degree which holds no value.