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| Type | Publicbusiness school |
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| Established | April 25, 1953; 72 years ago (1953-04-25) |
| Founder | Bidhan Chandra Roy |
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| Budget | ₹15.16 crore (US$1.8 million) (FY2023–24 est.)[1] |
| President | Sujit K. Basu |
| Director | Dipankar Das Gupta |
Academic staff | 54 (2025)[1] |
| Students | 668 (2025)[1] |
| Postgraduates | 598 (2025)[1] |
| 70 (2025)[1] | |
| Location | Kolkata, India 22°34′34.26″N88°21′38.86″E / 22.5761833°N 88.3607944°E /22.5761833; 88.3607944 |
| Campus | Urban, 1,786 m2 (19,220 sq ft) |
| Website | www |
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TheIndian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) is anAutonomousbusiness school inKolkata, India. The school is the first Management institute in India and South East Asia.[2][3] The Institute presently offers several Post Graduate degree programmes under the University of Calcutta as well as the PhD programme. The list includes MBA (Day), MBA (Evening) for Working Professionals, MBA-HRM, MBA-Public Systems, Masters in Social Welfare and several Post Graduate Diploma programmes. The institute publishes a management journal calledSurvey.[4]
In 1942, when the British government sought to train qualified labour officers for its industrial facilities, especially ordnance factories, during the Second World War. To fulfill this need, a social welfare training institute was established in affiliation with Calcutta University, strategically located nearby. Following India's Independence, this initiative evolved into TheIndian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata, officially established on April 25, 1953, by a resolution passed by the Senate of the University of Calcutta. This initiative was a collaborative effort between the University of Calcutta, the Government of West Bengal, and the Government of India, marking a significant milestone in management education in India. The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, laid its cornerstone, making IISWBM the nation's first institution to offer a formal management education program with Dijendra Kumar Sanyal serving as its founder-director.[5][6]
Demand for University
In August 2017, Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee suggested IISWBM upgrade to a university.[7] In 2019 the alumni association also demanded university or deemed university status for IISWBM.[8][9]
IISWBM ranked 22nd in Outlook BSchools ranking 2025. It was ranked 34th among management schools in India byBusiness Today in 2014.[10] As per Economic Times B-School Survey, IISWBM was ranked 33rd in Human Resource Management and 37th in Overall Ranking.[11]
Mr. L.N. Mittal, Chairman and C.E.O - Arcelor Mittal, Mr. Bhaskar Das, Executive Director - Times of India, Mr. Sudhir Jalan, President AIMA Former and President of FICCI, Mr. C.V. Chandrasekharan, Former MD - Balmer Lawrie Group, Late Prof. Sumantra Ghosal of London Business School, Mr Arindam Sil - Film Director, Mr Debaditya Chaudhury - Owner of Oudh 1590 and Chowman, Mr Umesh Hota - Executive Vice President - HR,CSR and Admin - KCB India Limited, Mr Satyaki Ghosh, CEO - Domestic textiles, Aditya Birla Group, Mr Shantanu Banerjee - CHRO Bandhan Bank, Mr Dhruba Mukherjee, CEO - ABP Private Ltd, Mr Samit Chakrabarti - Executive Director, Cantor, Mr Abhijan Nandy - MD and CEO, Allindia Technologies Ltd, Mr Pramit Sen, CHRO - National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), Mr Nisith Chaturvedi - Chief of HR and Admin, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Ms Ritu Lohia-President, Jupiter Wagons, Mr Suman Bhattacharya - Program Director, Piramal Foundation, Ms Pooja Panja, Councillor, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Ms Shikha Gupta, Director-HR & DEI, India and South Asia, Schneider Electric, Mr Srirang T K, Group CHRO, ICICI Bank are some of our distinguished alumni.[12]
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