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The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has announced the motorboat of its two-year Blended MBA Programme successful Business Analytics & AI during an lawsuit astatine its field connected November 6, 2025. This degree-granting MBA programme is designed for professionals and entrepreneurs who privation to integrate precocious analytical and AI-driven capabilities with leadership, strategy and absorption expertise.
The announcement of admissions and the presumption of the programme’s program was made successful the beingness of Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA; Prof. Diptesh Ghosh, Dean (Programmes), IIMA; and Prof. Anindya Chakrabarti, Chairperson, Blended MBA: Business Analytics & AI, IIMA. The authorities emphasised the increasing request for absorption professionals who tin integrate modern enactment and strategical competencies with precocious data-analytical and artificial quality frameworks to present concern interaction astatine scale.
The demand
As markets displacement to data-led decisions and AI embeds crossed worth chains, professionals question capabilities to physique intelligent, productive, growth-ready organisations. India’s data–AI ecosystem mirrors this momentum. India’s information analytics marketplace is projected to scope USD 21,286.4 cardinal by 2030 with a CAGR of 35.8% betwixt 2025 and 2030.1 The 2024 BCG–NASSCOM Report besides reaffirms India’s enactment successful AI talent, noting that India ranks archetypal globally successful AI accomplishment penetration and that request for AI-ready professionals is apt to transcend 1 cardinal by 2026.2 This surge is being fuelled by the exponential procreation of information crossed endeavor functions and the accelerated embedding of AI/ML into large information platforms, tools and applications.3 In effect to these opportunities, IIM Ahmedabad’s programme aims to upskill professionals successful data-intensive roles crossed marketing, finance, operations, proviso chain, logistics, legal, IT and HR.
Commenting connected the motorboat of the Blended MBA Programme successful Business Analytics & AI, Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA said, “Analytics and AI are nary longer peripheral enablers, they are astatine the halfway of however enterprises compete, innovate and make stakeholder value. This world has created an urgent request for professionals who tin span managerial expertise with heavy techno-analytical fluency. With this first-of-its-kind offering from IIM Ahmedabad, we are creating a rigorous pathway for ambitious managers and entrepreneurs to get high-impact skills, maestro AI-enabled concern models and pb integer transitions responsibly and astatine scale. It volition play a pivotal relation successful shaping innovation, competitiveness and liable AI-led translation crossed sectors.”
Adding his perspective, Prof. Diptesh Ghosh, Dean (Programmes), IIMA said, “At IIM Ahmedabad, we plan programmes that code real, modern challenges and the volatility of business. This blended MBA develops leaders who lick cross-functional problems with data, AI and dependable managerial judgement. Learners physique multidisciplinary capability, construe analytics into outcomes and advancement confidently successful tech-driven contexts. Our endeavour is an analytically strong, strategically oriented workforce.”
Speaking astir the programme architecture, Prof. Anindya Chakrabarti, Chairperson, Blended MBA: Business Analytics & AI said, “This two-year blended MBA unites IIM Ahmedabad’s general-management rigour with precocious method extent successful analytics and AI. We thatch learners to framework problems successful data-first terms, use blase toolkits and pb liable AI adoption crossed sectors. Participants larn to person investigation into superior decisions and to rethink however they plan and instrumentality concern solutions for impact.”
About the programme
Delivered successful a blended mode, the programme combines live, Direct-to-Device learning with curated in-person touchpoints astatine IIM Ahmedabad, including 3 on-campus modules, guided by module and adjacent interaction. It follows a three-term operation crossed each of the 2 years and offers an precocious program that integrates concern management, analytics and AI done case-based discussions, capstone engagements and action-learning projects.
Learners tin take from 20 electives spanning areas specified arsenic Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, Product Management, Finance and Risk Management, Human–AI Collaboration and Change Management, AI Ethics, Policy & Regulation, Supply Chain Digitisation, Gen AI and Agentic AI, among others. IIMA’s lawsuit method volition bring real-world strategic, operational and governance dilemmas into the virtual classroom, enabling learners to use analytical techniques successful business-relevant settings.
Learners volition besides summation distant entree to IIMA’s learning infrastructure passim the programme, including the Vikram Sarabhai Library, precocious computing facilities and a broad suite of databases. The programme provides a flexible exit enactment aft the archetypal twelvemonth with the grant of a Post Graduate Diploma.
To beryllium eligible, applicants should clasp a Bachelor’s grade /CA/CS/ICWA/CMA oregon equivalent successful immoderate discipline, with astatine slightest 50% aggregate marks oregon an equivalent CGPA from a recognised university. Working professionals and entrepreneurs indispensable person either a minimum of 3 years’ full-time acquisition aft a three-year graduation (10+2+3+3) oregon 2 years’ full-time acquisition aft a four-year graduation (10+2+4+2), arsenic connected March 31, 2026. Candidates indispensable taxable a valid CAT/GMAT/GRE people taken wrong the erstwhile 5 years (GMAT Classic/Focus and GRE accepted; trial dates not earlier than January 1, 2021), oregon look for Round-1 IIMA Admission Test for BPGP: BA & AI scheduled to beryllium held connected December 14, 2025.
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