History of PSG IM

The Institute
The genesis of the Institute can be traced to the establishment of the Department of Management Sciences in the year 1966 at the PSG College of Technology. Dr G R Damodaran, the Founder-Principal of the college on surveying the increasing number of small-scale industrial units functioning in and around Coimbatore (promoted by technocrats – many of them being the old students of his own Engineering college) felt the need for providing them with concepts and techniques related to the area of business management. To meet the need, a department of Management Sciences was created and a 3 year part-time Post Graduate Diploma course in Business and Industrial Management, affiliated to the University of Madras, was introduced in 1966.

A full-time two-year MBA programme with approval of the Government of India was introduced in 1971, with affiliation to the University of Madras, the first of such a programme in South India. The department was upgraded and was named PSG Institute of management, as part of the PSG College of Technology, in the year 1995, with a view to enabling the Institute to grow into a full-fledged management institute to offer academic and research programmes and Management Development Programmes and consultancy services. Pioneering has, thus, characterized the birth, growth and development of the PSG Institute of Management.

Ranking
Ranked 29th among the top 50 B-Schools in India according to Outlook Career 360