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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C)

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C)

IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) students have never had it so good as they gear up to head abroad for the international student exchange program, STEP, in September. Of the 80 students, who are off to the world's leading B-schools, as opposed to 45 last year, 46 have been offered scholarships. That's a nearly 284% jump from the 12 scholarships that were awarded last year.

In all, scholarships in excess of Rs 60 lakh have been given to the students this year, with several universities and foreign embassies offering scholarships to attract HMCians. The French Embassy and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) have already offered 32 scholarships to IIM-C students, each worth $3000.

Among US universities, University of Colorado and City University of New York (CUNY) are also providing scholarships to participating students.

The Diamond Management & Consultancy Group has also offered a 'Diamond Scholarship', awarded to Prabhat Chandra, the only student in India to get this $3000 scholarship.

Besides these, IIM-C itself supplements STEP with contributions from its coffers, ensuring that no students miss out on this opportunity due to lack of funds. "IIM-C helps its students in all possible ways—bulk airfare discounts, visa assistance, travel insurance and even arranging for Flying High Of the 80 students who are off to the world's leading B-schools, as opposed to 45 last year, 46 have been offered scholarships.

That's a nearly 284% jump French and German classes. In addition, representatives from Thomas Cook, ICICI Lombard and STIC specially visited the campus to make arrangements for the exchange program participants at discounted rates," said Gaurav Goyal, the STEP representative.

IIM-Calcutta's partner universities include Simmons School (Boston), Institute de Empresa (Madrid), UCLA Andersen School of Management (Los Angeles), University Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Milano), NUS (Singapore), ESCPEAP (Paris) and 31 other well-known institutes, spread across 5 continents and 17 countries.

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