The 12th batch of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)’s one-year full-time residential Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) for 2017-18 was inaugurated on April 13 by Director, Professor Ashish Nanda, and welcomed by Sunil Sharma, Chairperson, PGPX and Errol D’souza, Dean Faculty at IIM-A.

One hundred and fifteen students have joined the PGPX-XII batch. The 2017-18 batch has an average GMAT score of around 700, average age of around 32 years, average total work experience of 8.5 years, and average international experience of two years.

The current batch is also diverse in terms of educational background (25 percent are non-engineers), work experience (18 industries, innumerable functional areas, and 102 companies), nationality (three international participants), gender (25 per cent of the batch are women), and international work-experience (57 per cent of the batch has worked abroad before joining PGPX).

Launched in 2006, more than 900 students have graduated from PGPX so far. Till 2016-17, the PGPX intake was 90. This year, the institute has added one more section to enhance learning experience of participants. Accordingly, 115 students have been admitted this year.

Professor Sunil Sharma, Chairperson, PGPX, said, “To me, everybody who is part of IIM-A family is privileged. Use this opportunity to give expression and lift to your wings. Many have done this before you and they have emerged from this tapovan and tapasya to become extraordinary problem solvers and leaders.”