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Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai's 32-acre campus on ECR Road, Chengalpattu, holds a distinction unique in South Asia: it is the first LEED Platinum certified green campus for a business school in South Asia. Founded in 2004 by Late Dr. Bala V. Balachandran (Padma Shri awardee and J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor), the campus was designed as a statement of institutional values — environmental leadership, academic excellence, and global relevance integrated into a single physical environment.
The campus sits approximately 40 km south of Chennai city, creating a focused, residential academic community where most meaningful student experiences happen on campus.
Classrooms are configured for case method teaching — tiered seating, U-shaped and amphitheatre layouts built for discussion rather than passive lecture. The library provides access to 9,000+ online journals through EBSCO and Emerald, and a full subscription to the Harvard Business School case collection — one of the most comprehensive case libraries in the world.
Students in analytics, finance, and consulting tracks use the HBS database daily for coursework and placement preparation. The campus provides Bloomberg terminal access for PGPM Finance and Analytics students — a meaningful differentiator rare outside top IIMs.
Computer labs run SPSS, Tableau, Python environments, and domain-specific simulation labs including:
Accommodation and meal arrangements differ by programme:
| Programme | Room Type | Fee | Meals |
|---|---|---|---|
| PGDM | Twin sharing AC rooms | ₹6.32 L | All meals (vegetarian) included via Sodexo |
| PGPM | Single AC rooms (priority by fee payment order) | — | All meals (vegetarian) included via Sodexo |
Non-vegetarian food is optional and charged separately. The 40 km distance from Chennai city is the defining geographic reality of campus life — most students describe the resulting concentration of social and academic energy on campus as an unexpected advantage. Weekend city visits are possible but require planning, and on-campus life fills most of the week.
GLIM Chennai has 50+ full-time faculty (PhDs from IIMs, IITs, and international universities), 70+ academic and industry visiting faculty, and the defining feature: 25+ international visiting faculty per year from Kellogg, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. These are full 2–4 week intensive modules — not one-off lectures — bringing real-world global finance, strategy, and analytics perspectives directly into the curriculum.
The Academic Advisory Council has 42 thought leaders and the Business Advisory Council has 46 industry titans, both actively engaged with students through mentoring, guest sessions, and live projects. In 2024-25, 50+ globally acclaimed thought leader talks were conducted on campus, and 100+ industry leaders interacted with students.
Karma-Yoga is GLIM Chennai's flagship leadership development programme — a real-world practicum where students work in 27+ panchayat villages around the campus on education, health, agriculture, and small business projects.
The impact over the programme's history:
| Impact Area | Scale |
|---|---|
| Medical attention | 10,000+ people given individual attention |
| Education | 5,000+ school-going children in tuition classes and science clubs |
| Community events | 60+ village-level events conducted annually |
Karma-Yoga is embedded in both the PGDM curriculum (Terms 2 and 3) and the PGPM curriculum, and it is consistently cited by alumni as one of the most formative experiences of their MBA — developing genuine empathy, leadership under uncertainty, and an understanding of impact at scale that no classroom exercise can replicate.
PGDM students have access to student exchange programmes with 8 international universities:
| University | Country |
|---|---|
| SKEMA | France |
| HHL Leipzig | Germany |
| University of Huddersfield | UK |
| EDHEC | France |
| IPAG | France |
| Ajman University | UAE |
| NUCB Business School | Japan |
| Manchester Metropolitan University | UK |
International immersion options include IÉSEG School of Management (France), Pace University (USA), and Bologna Business School (Italy).
PGPM students have access to an immersion term at IÉSEG and a unique Dual Degree option — a 4-week post-MBA programme at Université de Bordeaux, France, leading to a second MBA through a triple-accredited degree pathway. GLIM maintains 13 global institutional collaborations and has hosted 4 international research conferences on campus.
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