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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Great Lakes Institute of Management to invest Rs 100 cr on new campus at Gurgaon


NEW DELHI: Great Lakes Institute of Management on Thursday said it will invest Rs 100 crore to set up a new campus at Gurgaon in the next two years.

The management institute, which on Thursday announced the launch of its working professional programme in the National Capital Region, currently runs one institute in Chennai.

"A new campus would be set up in Gurgaon with an investment of Rs 100 crore in the next two years," Great Lakes Institute of Management said in a statement.

The Gurgaon campus will offer programmes for working professionals as well as the full-time flagship one-year PGPM (Post Graduate Professional Programme in Management).

The Chennai campus, which has also been set up with an investment of around Rs 100 crore, has been offering programmes for working professionals including the 2-year PGWPM (Post Graduate Working Professional Program in Management) weekend programme and a new PGWPM (Energy).

"With this launch of our programmes in Delhi-NCR, we wish to bring the excellence in management education developed in Chennai over the past eight years closer to students and corporations in Delhi-NCR," Great Lakes Founder and Dean Bala V Balachandran said.

Great Lakes is led by Padma Shri awardee Bala V Balachandran, who is the J L Kellogg Distinguished Professor Emeritus at US-based Kellogg Business School, USA.

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