New Delhi: Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIM-B) has made both attendance and internship optional for its PGP students. IIM-B has incorporated certain essential reforms in its PGP course that will offer its students the freedom to skip the two-and-half-month summer internship. In case, they come with an industry experience of 34 months and its faculty the right to make attendance optional.
According to a statement issued by Ishwar Murthy, PGP chairperson, IIM-B, the institute has said that instead of summer internship, they are suggesting to them to explore entrepreneurship, work for an NGO or take up a research project under a professor. As per sources, in total there are 73 students with more than 37 months of work experience in this year's batch of 382 students. This year, the institute is done away with its traditional requirement, which is minimum 75% attendance in all courses.
Besides, individual instructors will now decide whether there should be a limit on attendance, and if so, what should be the limit. Earlier, students with less then 75% attendance had to lose one grade point. IIM-B is also cutting down the length of a few final term courses in order to bring in diversity. Currently, each course fetches 3 credits and lasts 10 weeks. Starting November, it will be five-week courses with 1.5 credits.
