Great Lakes Institute of Management (also known as Great Lakes) is a business school located in the South Indian city of Chennai.
The institution, a brain-child of the US-based management guru Dr Bala V. Balachandran, aims to fill the vacuum for a top-flight business school in Tamil Nadu and put it on par with the three other southern states that boast of top-rung management institutions: Indian Institutes of Management in Bangalore and Kozhikode and Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.
The institute was founded by Balachandran (he is also the co-founder of two very reputed B-schools, ISB Hyderabad and MDI Gurgaon) in 2004.
Great Lakes Institute of Management has a memorandum of understanding (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 the USA. The institute has entered into an 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.
Great Lakes has recently earned the accreditation of AICTE and is the only one-year management course in India to be approved by the council.
The average work experience of the students is more than three years and the institute considers GMAT (average of around 690) or CAT (average 96 percentile) scores for admissions.
Great Lakes announced its strategic partnership with Educomp, a leader in the e-Learning industry in India, on May 6, 2011. Great Lakes in association with Institute of Energy Management of Research (IEMR) launched its Gurgaon Campus.
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