All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi - Admission 2025, Fees, Courses, Placement, Ranking

The All India Management Association (AIMA) is the Voice of India’s Leaders and Managers, and the apex body of the management profession in India. AIMA is a not-for-profit, non-lobbying organisation, and works closely with Industry, Government, Academia, and students to further the cause of the management profession in India.

Established in 1957, AIMA has been serving the management community for close to 70 years, contributing immensely to the enhancement of management capability in the country. AIMA has a membership base of over 38,000 members and close to 6,000 corporate/institutional members, through 68 Local Management Associations affiliated to AIMA. The Association is represented on a number of policymaking bodies of the Government of India and national associations.

AIMA offers various services in the areas of testing, distance education, skill development & training, research, publications, executive education and management development programmes and special Forums for Young Leaders, Vice Chancellors and women leaders and managers. 

Over the decades, AIMA has evolved as times have changed and catered to the growing needs of today’s management community. Apart from its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management, AIMA offers topical and industry-oriented programmes and initiatives to help management professionals and students keep in step with times, while offering state of the art business solutions for organisations and institutions. 

As the pioneer of Distance Education, AIMA has always been an early starter, even in the digital space. AIMA was amongst the first organisations to offer Internet Based Remote Proctored Tests on a national level; and among the first to shift its service offerings online. AIMA quickly built digital expertise and now has the capability to offer its management programmes and business solutions in the physical, virtual and hybrid mode, as required.

AIMA also brings to the Indian managers, the best management practices, and techniques through numerous foreign collaborations with professional bodies and institutions. AIMA is an important and long-time member of the Asian Association of Management Organisations (AAMO), which promotes professional management in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, AIMA has developed close associations with several leading international Universities and Institutions including the UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, St Gallen Symposium, Horasis, The World Bank to name a few.

PhD programme in Business Administration was launched in 2000 by AIMA in collaboration with Aligarh Muslim University. The programme is divided in two phases – Foundation Phase and Research Phase. The Foundation Phase of the programme is conducted by AIMA and the Research Phase of the programme is conducted by AMU.

All India Management Association (AIMA) in collaboration with Ahmedabad Management Association organized Global Convention on MSMEs on 29-30 April 2011 at AMA Auditorium, Ahmedabad. . The Convention was on the very apt theme “MSMEs TO HIGHER LEVEL: THE WAY FORWARD”.

The Convention was attended by 200 delegates from Industry, Government, Media and Academia

The Shaping Young Minds Programme (SYMP) was held at Baroda in collaboration with Baroda Management Association on 8th January 2016. 

The speakers who have addressed include Mr Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman & Creative Director,South Asia,Ogilvy & Mather India, Justice N Santosh Hegde,Former Lokayukta,Government of Karnataka,Ambassador Deepak Vohra, Veteran Diplomat & Special Advisor,Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea Bissau, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils, Leh and Kargil, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan,Sarod Maestro

Focusing on today's potential for tomorrow's performance, AIMA’s Management Development Programmes (MDPs) align with AIMA's mission to enhance the competitiveness of Indian Managers across functional areas while improving their knowledge. These MDPs help in enhancing the professional and personal development of management professionals who will play increasingly important management and leadership roles within their organisations.

The high point of AIMA MDPs is their unique pedagogy-experience sharing by some of the best practitioners in the business.

Professionals can no longer rely on just their technical skills; they need to possess People Skills to work through and with people. Some people have an instinctive sense of good social skills or people skills, but others can surely learn and develop these skills. People skills are set of essential behavioural skills for all professionals in order to ensure smooth functioning of an organisation. Effective People Skills become a key to success for team leaders and executives managing small or big group of people. For projects, sales, marketing and customer service executives it is a must have skill. People Skills are patterns of behaviour and behavioural interactions, among people.

This two-day training on People Skills will focus on Interpersonal and Communication, Team Management, Conflict Management Skills and a Capability of Creating Culture of Collaboration