Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) reviews

Do not come with wrong expectations, get informed about India, the culture, the people, the problems of the country, the pollution, if you are interested to learn a lot about yourself and life in underdeveloped countries and you do not only want to stay on campus but experience the real life in a very different country than yours than let's go, but if you like it more to hang around in bars, enjoy your clean and organised environment, find your self sense of humor, and all the things same like at home, than you should better stay in Europe because India is really a difference, I loved it

The courses level is very good, based on the american model of learning (a lot of cases study and projects): you will learn a lot. I may be difficult to work with the indians as they are very proud of themselves and of their works but not of your work: you really have to defend your ideas. But it is a good experience and teachers encourage work between Indians and foreign students.

Spreadsheet Models for Business Decisions, a really good MS Excel Cours which is quite heavy but extremly interesting and you learn things I could not imagine before to do with Excel, General Commercial Knowledge, a real nice and funny course, the professor is more a comedian than a teacher but a lot of the knowledge lasts a long time, was my favorite, you learn a lot about contract law and other commercial things in common

The time management of the local students is quite strange, they only start working very short time in advance and so you have to accept these habits if you are working in groups with local students, many times group meetings are in the night and you are always expected to be on campus as appointments are fixed very short in advance which is a little bit hard if you want to plan long in advance, also the planning of the university i.e. of dates for exams could be better and longer in advance

I highly recommend it, but do not go there as if you would go to the USA or to another western country for an exchange. Be ready to accept the different culture you are entering: a different notion of time, of private life are part of it.