Some B schools have also found an increase in female candidates this year compared to the last time, officials of Indian management and the Indian School of Business said.
Learning new skills has become essential when managers should be ready to respond quickly to changes that emerging technologies bring to traditional commercial models. Meanwhile, India companies intensifying efforts to improve gender equality in terms of management, inducing more women with leadership roles, a possible reason for increasing female participation in these programs.
IIM-AHMEDABAD has increased by 10 to 15% of requests from the full-time MBA program (MBA-PGPX) in each of the last two years, said Amit Karna, president of the Institute for the MBA-PGPX program. The number of women registered increased by almost 45% in the same period.
The number of candidates has also increased in IIM-LuckNow and IIM-Indore. Lucknow also witnessed a takeover of the candidates, said a spokesperson.
IIM-LUCKNOW and IIM-Indore have said that the profile of executive MBA candidates has evolved significantly in recent years. “Participants come from various fields with an average age of 34 to 36 years and an average working experience of 12-14 years,” said IIM-Indore Director Himanshu Rai.at IIM Shillong, Executive MBA is a full-time resident program, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, also known, PGPEX program). Registrations went here from 49 in 2025 to 55 in 2025, while the number of students almost doubled from eight in 2025 to 15 in 2025, said director of the director Nalini Prabha Tripathi.
In 2025 and 2025, IIM-Shillon asked more executives to join traditional business profiles such as banking services, advice, engineering. In 2025, they were more entrepreneurial, interfunctional and digitally, according to the academics of the dean Rohit Joshi in Shillon.
IIM-LUCKNOW witnesses greater diversity in industry history, with health care professionals, IT and IT and entrepreneurship Joining those in traditional fields such as manufacturing and finance.
The ISB PGP Max, an equivalent program of a 15 -month -old global executive MBA, notes a constant interest of sectors such as ite, professional services, R&D, banking and financial services, government, defense, energy and the public sector.
The ISB PGP Max program includes 24 structured courses around eight interfunctional themes and executive coaching, said the Dean deputy, academic programs, Deepa Man.
“In particular, IT candidates, fintech and engineering history managed to pass strategic roles and products at the end of the program,” Karna of IIM-Ahmedabad said.
In IIM-LUCKNOW, 93% of its 2025 IPMX class received job offers with the highest CTC touching RS 53 LAKH per year, the institute said.