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India’s Top Business Schools Make Efforts to Be More Diverse

August 25, 2011, 10:04 am

In a move to attract more women to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management, eight of the 12 schools have decided to give female applicants automatic points to increase their overall scores in the entrance exam, reports The Times of India. The institutes, which are India’s top business schools, are dominated by males, most of whom are engineers. To attract more students who aren’t engineers, the schools plan to give similar preference to nonengineer applicants. “It’s for the first time that we have taken a conscious decision to make the diversity on our campus richer,” said Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, the admission head of the schools’ Lucknow branch.

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