Career Mitra

Great Lakes Institute of Management (also known as Great Lakes) is a fast growing premier business school located in the South Indian city of Chennai (formerly Madras). It offers a one year 'Post Graduate Program in Management' which is an AICTE approved program in management,a 2 year part-time Executive MBA program 'Post-Graduate Global Executive Program in Management (PGXPM)',2 year Post Graduate Working Professional Program In Management (PGWPM) and Global Energy Executive MBA (GEMBA).

Great Lakes Institute of Management has a MoU with Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. The Yale-Great Lakes Research Center has been established with the objective of pursuing advanced research in management in partnership with Yale University of USA.The Institute has entered into a MoU with the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Malaysia, Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, and IIT Madras for academic exchange programs.

Ranking

Great Lakes has recently earned the accredition by AICTE and is the only 1 yr management course in india to be approved by the council. The Institute has been recently ranked 16th in the b-schools survey conducted by Careers360-CNN-IBN. The average work experience of the students is more than 3 years and they generally have prior experience in top companies.

Entrance Exams

The institute considers GMAT score (average of around 690) or CAT score(average 96 percentile) for admissions.

Academic Courses

PGPM

The one year full time Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) is uniquely designed to deliver Customer-Centricity, Meritocracy and Corporate Ethics in one year. It facilitates students to understand the interactions between the various functional areas of a business system and thereby appreciate the need for developing cross-functional perspectives in business.Great Lakes Institute of Management works in close partnership with the industry in shaping the curriculum. The curriculum is reviewed periodically to keep it in sync with the needs of an ever-changing and evolving market place.Some of the highlights of PGPM.

PGXPM

The Post Graduate Global Executive Program in Management (PGXPM) for Executives is Great Lakes' answer to unfolding global changes in business perspectives. It helps to lift one's career beyond expectations with an international life-changing experience. This six-term, rigorous, fully mentored program takes the work experience of the participants into consideration and focuses on sets of core courses in Finance, Marketing, Operations, Technology and Human Resource Management. The Institute looks for high performance middle / senior / manager with strong leadership potential for PGXPM.