IIM Calcutta Campus & Infrastructure

IIM Calcutta campus is sprawl over 135-acres of land. The campus of Indian Institute of Calcutta is surrounded by a stress-free and conducive environment which provides a better atmosphere for students to learn and stay. Among all IIM’s available in the country, IIM Calcutta is very well known for its green environment. The whole campus is rich in world-class facilities which provide a comfortable learning experience for students.

IIM Calcutta campus is fully residential campus, and all the students admitted to any of the program available at the campus have to opt for the Hostel Facility. All hostels of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta are surrounded by green trees and bushes. The Hostel of the college has facilities like TVs, Washing machines in addition to laundry service, Recreation Centre – Equipped with basketball court, swimming pool, tennis, badminton court, table tennis, gymnasium etc. Housekeeping facility is also available at IIM Calcutta hostels. Students can opt for rooms on single/twin sharing basis. All rooms are well furnished and equipped with geysers, TV e.t.c. Recently IIM Calcutta has added a world-class hostel, ‘Lake View Hostel for providing more comfortable accommodation options.

An ICICI Bank ATM is available at the campus of IIM Calcutta which can be accessed by students without going outside the campus. Faculty Members, as well as Staff Members, may also access the ATM Facility. The whole campus, as well as Hostel Block, is installed with a high-speed internet facility which connects all rooms including Seminar Hall, Auditorium and Lecture Halls of the College Building.

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta campus has a hosting venue for Executive Education programmes named as Management Development Centre (MDC) constructed inside the campus itself. Apart from these, the campus of the college also has 6 well-equipped audiovisual and multimedia-aided classrooms, meeting/syndicate rooms, business lounges and conference rooms.

Seminar halls of IIM Calcutta campus are installed with high-quality audio-video Systems which allows the students to attend live video call conferencing of companies. Led and Projectors are also installed in the lecture rooms of the college where the students can learn digitally by studying the recorded lectures of experienced faculties.

Within the 3 major hostels, Old Hostel, White Hostel and New Hostel, there is plenty of scope for interaction and developing relations. While the Old Hostel is a co-ed hostel, with separate wings for girls, the White Hostel and New Hostel are both male hostels. All the hostels are equipped with all the facilities of a modern hostel. The newest hostel, which is in the last stage of its completion, will be operational from the next session. The facilities at the newest hostel are of international standards. Spacious rooms with French windows opening onto your own spacious balcony, gives you a feeling of luxury and comfort as soon as you walk in. State of the Art architectural design, cutting edge technology and luxuriant materials combine to form a wonderful new hostel for the students of IIM Calcutta.

Apart from the infrastructural soundness, all the hostels provide sufficient scope for interaction and relationship-building. There are common rooms, games rooms and courts for various sports in all hostels, where the students can relax and cool down after a hectic day of work. There is freedom of movement and students constantly interact with one another. This gives the new students full scope to know their seniors, learn from them, leverage their knowledge and build lasting relations with them. It is also a common sight to find study groups and project groups working away into the night in the hostel common rooms. These interactions play an especially important role in a student’s life during placements and examinations.

Each hostel has a life and culture of its own. There are inter-hostel sports competitions where the culture of each hostel comes out at its brightest. Festivals all celebrated in the hostels throughout the year, whether it be through conducting pujas and yajnas in the hostel courtyard or serving delicious and sumptuous feasts in the mess or through community activities like bursting crackers and flying kites on the hostel rooftop. A common sight during the year is second year students setting up kiosks in the hostel to sell an assortment of things as part of their marketing projects and first year students devouring on the delicious golgappas being sold or purchasing handmade crafts work created by under privileged children.

Hostel life at IIMC is full of vibrance and gives one a chance to relax, unwind and discover oneself constantly through interaction with peers and participating in the cultural, sports and community activities.

Adventure Club was a brainchild of Malli Mastaan Babu ( 39th batch at IIM C), the patron saint of all trekkers. The man who achieved the incredible feat of scaling the highest peaks of the seven continents in 172 days, the fastest so far . Having begun under such able hands the club took it's task seriously and organized treks, hikes and camping trips for the students of IIM-Calcutta during vacations. And also a fair bit of on-campus activities like triathlons, crowd-runs (where a huge group of students jog together) , wall-climbing, etc.

This rich heritage has been given a structure, now the club comprises of three branches -treks team , on-campus team and design team. The number of on campus events have increased like "Tour de joka ", (conducted in association with Tata Steel Adventure Foundation) a biathlon of running and cycling, a wall rappelling workshop and many mor

The Choreography club of IIM Calcutta brings together students interested in celebrating life through dance. Choreo Club makes its presence felt in each and every function at IIM Calcutta. In addition, the club trains students with no prior dance experience through workshops conducted by professionals. Of the few memorable memories that every student carries forward from IIM Calcutta, the performances by Choreo Club would surely be one among them.

The Consulting Club, IIM Calcutta is a student-run, corporate-facilitated and faculty-guided student body of IIM Calcutta. It was setup with an objective of benefiting the students' community through consulting events, live industry consulting projects, seminars, workshops and other student activities. Besides organising several national level events every year, it has now taken the lead in forming an International Consulting Consortium which includes consulting clubs from the likes of theKellogg School of Management, UCLA (Anderson School of Management),London Business School (LBS), Peter F. Drucker Graduate School Of Business,University of Western Ontario (Richard Ivey School Of Business) and University of Melbourne (Melbourne Business School), among a host of others. Now, that is truly international!

The Finance & Investments Club of IIM Calcutta, popularly known as the FinClub is a student driven initiative that collaborates with both the corporate and academia from the financial sector to provide a platform for students to improve their quantitative and analytical thinking abilities. The club organizes activities to assist members in evaluating careers in finance and identifying current career opportunities, extend the practical finance education with job-specific knowledge and connect members with alumni and other finance professionals. Some of the more popular activities include industry talks, workshops, information sessions about careers/companies and virtual stock trading competitions.

“TELL ME AND I FORGET, TEACH ME AND I MAY REMEMBER, INVOLVE ME AND I LEARN.”

? Benjamin Franklin

We are the Operations Club of IIM Calcutta. We pride ourselves at being the club that bridges the gap between classroom teaching and practical application in the field of operations.

Conceptualized in 2011 by the 47th PGP batch of IIM Calcutta and with over-whelming support from the faculty of Operations Management, we took just two years to transform from a ‘Special Interest Group’ to a full-fledged Club. Our rapid success can be attributed to the various facets of the club.

We have been successful in bringing the most number of live projects which include projects from Indian Railways, L&T and Amazon, Advatech and many others.

We are the only club across B-Schools in India engaging 60+ MBA institutes through our monthly online event ‘Ops Cociente’. Other than this we have conducted large number of campus events like Nirmaan, Flip-it-Fast, ManuFactor, Battlefield based on the various concepts of supply chain, constraint management, inventory management etc. Through these engagements, we try to increase the student enthusiasm towards operations and continue to evolve and innovate at the same time.

We are one of the few clubs, which has its own magazine, where students, faculty and industry stalwarts put their opinions on various developments in the field of Operations. Also with a Preparation team of its own, Operations Club adds further value to the chain, by helping students with the preparation for a career in Operations Management.

Last but not the least, our Industry Interaction team, brings the industry stalwarts from the field of Operations to share their knowledge and experience. Personalities such as Mr. Naresh Kumar (author of “10,000 Km on Indian Highway”) and many others have graced our events on numerous occasions.

A part of the cultural wing, the IIMC "Kweej" club is essentially defined by the precocious achievements of some of the country's legendary quizzers. And quizzing is as entrenched a tradition here as parties. It goes back to the days of 'seeding quizzes' during the early batches, some of which used to be conducted by the likes of Neil O'Brien - the original patriarch of this mental gymnastics. To keep count of achievements is no mean task, IIM Calcutta teams have been winners of popular quiz shows like Quiz Time, finalists of Mastermind India and several other high octane quizzes in open events across the country. Their latest triumph has been at "Nihilanth '11", the inter IIM-IIT Quiz, where they floored the competition. Internally the IIM Calcutta quizzing calendar is made up of a number of quizzes many of which are currently championed by our students. BBC Mastermind, watch this space!

Persona, the literary club of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, brings together the creative on campus Joka. Besides giving a platform to the literati of IIM-C to showcase their talents, Persona conducts numerous events throughout the year for the rest of the campus to enjoy and excel in. Personaites, as members of Persona are called, stress on the importance of having powerful language skills not only in their personal but in their professional lives as well. Constantly endeavouring to polish and perfect their soft-skills, they epitomize the club motto – Evolve.

Persona has three major aspects to its functioning:

Inquest is Persona's bi-monthly campus magazine. It is the only magazine on campus that is distributed as a hard copy. It covers all the major events, gossips and social happenings within the campus. It also provides a medium for one to get read by the entire student community.

Diamond Harbour (www.persona-online.com) is the online initiative of Persona. Re-launched this year, Diamond Harbour provides a window into the literary talents at IIM-C. Along with featuring the creative ramblings of Personaites, Diamond Harbour launches periodic competitions for the IIM-C community at large.

The Events team within Persona organizes new and innovative events throughout the year to involve the student community and to provide them with avenues to exhibit their talents. Events like debates, poetry recitals, creative writing competitions, JAM (Just-a-Minute), extempore etc. are held round the year. The highlight remains Persona Sunday: a two-day-weekend lineup of literary events that coincides with the Hindi Fortnight.