IIM-L inducts 35.4% female students this year

NEW DELHI: IIM Lucknow's batch of 2012-2014 of the Post Graduate Programme at IIM Lucknow has become the largest batch to be inducted till date with 453 students - 407 students in the Post Graduate Programme in Management and 46 students in Post Graduate Programme in Agri Business Management (ABM).

The institute's focus this year was to ensure gender diversity, which has led to a total of 166 female students being this year. This includes 35.4% in PGP (144) and 50% (23) in PGP ABM. The batch of 2011-2013 saw around 14% of female students, whereas this year the total % of students (in both the programmes) is around 37%.

Though majority of students still have engineering background, their percentage has come down compared to the previous years, the institute said in a statement. Students from diverse fields like medicine, pharmacy and even food technology are also part of the batch of 2012-2014.