Indore | IIM Indore received re-accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development Quality Improvement Systems - Equis (Europe), a prestigious international organisation for management development. With this, the elite b-school maintained its ‘Triple Crown’.

Efmd-Equis is an international not-for-profit association based in Brussels, designed as a quality enhancement process for a particular programme within an institution.

The re-accreditation is for three years. Director Himanshu Rai emphasised that the achievement was the result of the collective efforts of the entire institution.

Over the past 26 years, IIM Indore has been in the forefront of innovation in management education, with many firsts to its credit. The institute has pioneered a five-year integrated programme in management, a weekend post graduate programme for working executives in Mumbai and a doctoral programme in management for working professionals and defence officers.

Additionally, the institute has launched several virtual learning programmes for executives and a general management programme for executives.

It has also expanded its footprint to the UAE and West Asia with a strong alumni base of over 600 abroad, he added.

The accreditation is based on a comprehensive set of factors that includes context, governance and strategy, programme portfolios, students, faculty, research and development, executive education, resources and administration, internationalisation, ethics, responsibility and sustainability and connections with practice.