Gurgaon, April 24, 2017: Great Lakes Institute of Management proudly announces the launch of its undergraduate initiative, Great Lakes College, located in Delhi NCR in the millennium city of Gurgaon. The College is Great Lakes’ initiative to provide world-class undergraduate education in the fields of Management and Decision Sciences. Great Lakes College has an academic mentorship by Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of the top-10 ranked b-schools in India and University of London, the 180-year old University that is one of the top 50 ranked Universities in the world.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Bala V Balachandran, Dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management and Chairman of Great Lakes College said, “Great Lakes has been able to develop as one of India’s top 10 business schools in a short period of 10 years using its twin mantras of ‘Global Mindsets, Indian Roots’ and ‘Blending Academic Excellence with Business Relevance’. Great Lakes College will be build upon these principles and will create a truly world class undergraduate experience”.
Mr. Mohan Lakhamraju, Vice Chairman of the College said, “Great Lakes College aims to become a globally recognized center of academic excellence and to nurture future business leaders and entrepreneurs armed with intellectual curiosity, values-driven confidence and a global perspective”.
Through its association with UoL and LSE, renowned domestic and international faculty, student exchange and study abroad programs, internships, etc., Great Lakes College will inculcate a global perspective among its students and prepare them to succeed anywhere in the world. Great Lakes College believes that at a time when change is so frequent, the emphasis must be how quickly its students can learn new things and not just be unidimensional. To develop this ability in its students, its entire approach to instruction is to develop curiosity and encourage questioning.
According to Dr. Parag Diwan, President of Great Lakes College, “To be a real leader in tomorrow’s world, a young student of today needs to develop three core skills: a confident personality, global perspective and a creative problem-solving attitude. Our Liberal Studies foundation will develop in our students a broad understanding and appreciation of history, cultures, arts and social sciences. This helps in broadening one’s horizons and creates depth in character, giving them the confidence to express themselves effectively, on any stage”.
Great Lakes College’s location in Gurgaon, a hub of multinational companies, enables it to integrate industry exposure closely into the educational experience, as well as enable impactful research that can provide solutions to practical problems being faced by the industry today.
Admissions to Great Lakes College have been commenced from April 2017. The application is available on its website and can be downloaded from www.glc.edu.in. The Academic Session will commence from August, 2017. For more information, please reach out on – 1800 120 8611 or to Mr. Vinil Pant @9811574074
About Great Lakes College: Great Lakes College is an initiative of Great Lakes Institute of Management and offers India’s first Undergraduate Business Program with Liberal Studies Foundation and Digital Economy Expertise. GLC offers a three year degree program BBM (Bachelors of Business and Management) and the degree for this program would be awarded by University of London under their international programmes and has been designed under academic direction by the London School of Economics and Political Science. GLC draws its lineage from Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s top 10 B –schools.
About Great Lakes Institute of Management –
Great Lakes was founded in 2004 by Padma Shri Dr. Bala V. Balachandran with a vision of becoming the leading Management Institution in India providing Quality Education and Human Capital for Emerging Economies. In 2014, Great Lakes was accredited by Association of MBAs (AMBA, UK) and became the youngest B-school in India to receive this prestigious international accreditation. In 2015, Great Lakes received international SAQS accreditation from AMDISSA making it one of the few B-Schools in India to receive two prestigious international accreditations. Led by exceptional academic faculty, steered by an outstanding advisory council and buoyed by the international collaborations, Great Lakes has, within a short span of 10 years emerged as a top-ranked business school. For the year 2016, Great Lakes has been ranked No. 1 for its Analytics program by Analytics India, 5th among private B-Schools in India by Careers 360, 6th among one year MBA program by Outlook India and 10th among top ten B-Schools in India by Business India. In the year 2015, Great Lakes was ranked 7th among India’s top one-year executive MBA/PGP programmes by Business Today & 9th under the category top one-year programs in the country by Business World. Great Lakes has 50+ full time faculty and 130+ visiting faculty including over 20 international faculty from top global schools like Yale, Kellogg, Stanford, etc. Further collaborations with world’s leading institutions like Georgia State University, University of Houston, University of Bordeaux, Hongkong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) etc., have helped Great Lakes in globally benchmarking its programs. Great Lakes has a 27.5 acres LEED Platinum rated green campus in Chennai and a 7.2 acre campus in Delhi-NCR. Great Lakes has over 6000 alumni spread across 30 countries globally.