IMI Delhi offers AICTE approved 10-Year old Fellow Program in Management (PhD) with 100% Tuition & Learning Resource Fee Waiver. The maximum program duration is 5 Years.

IMI Delhi selection criteria will be based on a valid score in CAT/ XAT/ GMAT/ GRE/ NET / NMAT tests. In Case, candidates do not have a valid national level entrance exam scores, they need to appear for the IMI Research Aptitude Test conducted by IMI. After considering the entrance test scores, academic performance, and work experience, the candidates will be called for a personal interview based on which PhD admission offer is made to the selected students.

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IMI Delhi PhD Quick Facts

• 45 + highly qualified permanent faculty to deliver the programme curriculum of PhD at IMI
• Initial shortlisting done through valid CAT/ GMAT/ GRE/ XAT/ NET / NMAT score.
• 50 + case studies with academic notes with international case clearing houses such as ivey, thunderbird, emerald, etc.
• Free Access to ‘Coursera’ for unlimited number of certifications during the first Year of PhD Course Work.
• Access to Bloomberg Lab for the research scholars and Full Text Research Paper Databases as well as industry databases
• Strong network of IMI PhD faculty working as assistant professor, professor, case writer etc.

IMI Delhi PhD Eligibility Criteria

• An applicant should have Masters’ Degree or its equivalent in any discipline with a minimum of 60% aggregate marks.OR
• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering with a minimum of 60% marks or equivalent grade point average. 
• Final Year students can also apply for the programme provided the should provided necessary documents in support of the completion of their academic course within the prescribed period of time. 
• A bachelor’s degree plus any professional qualification such as CA, ICWA, CS, and CFA with a minimum of 60% aggregate marks are also eligible to apply for the Program.
• Students who have completed any part time academic course are eligible under the condition that they should have minimum 5 years of relevant full time work experience.

IMI Delhi PhD Selection Process

IMI Delhi follows a 3 step process for the final admission shortlist in the PhD Programme which are mentioned below: 

Step I: IMI Research Aptitude Test

The applicant seeking admission to the IMI Delhi PhD Programme needs to appear in a Research Aptitude Test conducted by the institute itself. However, the applicants do not require to take IMI Research Aptitude Test if they have appeared in any of the CAT/ GMAT/ GRE/ XAT/ NMAT / NET-JRF tests in the last 5 years with a valid score.

Step II: Research Interest Assessment Interview

The candidates with a valid score of the entrance exams receive their confirmation to appear for Assessment interview conducted by IMI Delhi. Read more: How to Prepare for MBA GD/PI?

FInal Admission offer:

 Based on the Entrance Exam score, PI Performance, academic profile and research interest of the candidates, IMI prepares the final selection list for admission shortlist. On the basis of the final admission shortlist after the assessment PI Round, the selected candidates are given final admission offer. 

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How to Apply for IMI New Delhi PhD Course?

Candidates applying for DPM Programme offered by IMI New Delhi are required to take IMI Reasearch aptitude test or CAT/ GMAT/ GRE/ XAT/ NMAT/ NET JRF prior to submission of the application. Only those candidates having scored qualifying marks in the entrance test are eligible to apply. The application process for IMI PhD Programme in detail is as follows:

1. Visit the official website of IMI, New Delhi: https://www.imi.edu/
2. Create an account.
3. Now login again and fill the admission form.
4. The candidates are required to complete the online application form with correct and accurate details, and submit the same along with the application fees of INR 2200/-.
5. Payment of application fee can be made via credit/ debit card, net-banking or bank transfer.The candidates also have the flexibility of paying the fees by Demand Draft drawn in favor of ‘International Management Institute’ Payable at New Delhi.

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IMI Delhi PhD Program Fee and Financial Aid

The Program fee structure and the waivers and scholarships available for different scholar categories are as follows.

IMI Delhi PhD Programme Fee Waiver

• Eligible candidates will be awarded a stipend of INR 65,000/- per month provided to the participants of IMI Delhi PhD Programme. 
• As a whole, IMI provides INR 90,000 as a Contingency Grant to PhD students. 
• Also, research grants for presenting papers in national & international conference is also provided to the research scholars.
• Cumulative Grant of INR 1,20,000 for presenting Research Papers.
• The scholar who publishes in superior quality Peer Reviewed Journals will get an additional conference support grant of INR 2,00,000/- for every such Peer Reviewed Journal publication

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IMI PhD Program Structure

First year of course work: The IMI PhD research scholar has to successfully complete two types of courses, as mentioned below:

1. PGDM core management domain courses: The reseach scholar will pursue certain number of PGDM management domain courses over three trimesters in his/ her first year of the program.
2. PhD specific courses: The PhD scholar will pursue certain PhD specific courses in his/her first year of the program.

Evaluations & promotions: In order to get promoted in 2nd year, an average of 60% is needed for passing both the PGDM core management domain courses and the PhD specific courses. Apart from this, the participants need to score 60% in all the area specific course package defined for the specialized area in which the scholar wants to pursue his/her thesis work.

Exemption & conditions: IMI PhD participants are exempted from PGDM core management domain courses under the following conditions:

• The waiver may be granted to scholars who have completed their 2-year Full-time PGDM/ MBA program from any B-schools under NIRF Ranking of Top 50 Schools in the Management Category and score a CGPA of 6/10 or equivalent..
• The waiver may be granted to candidates with minimum 5 years of management Domain Relevant work experience. 

Second year of course work: The 2nd year of coursework is spread over one year and fulfilled in three trimesters. In the second year, the participants only pursues PhD specific courses which includes a mix of core compulsory; area compulsory and area/ allied elective courses.

Evaluations & promotions:, an average of 60% is required for passing the PhD specific courses for completion of the 2nd-year course work. Additionally, minimum 60% is required in all the area specific course package defined for the area of specialization in which the scholar to pursue his/her thesis work.

Comprehensive examination: On successful completion of the mandatory courses all PhD scholars would need to successfully clear a both written and oral comprehensive examination..

Thesis Preparation and Submission:

Research proposal formulation and defense: After the successful completion of comprehensive examination, the candidate needs to form a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) for guidance towards the final thesis. Under the guidance of TAC, the student would be required to develop a research proposal and defend it in an open forum comprising the IMI, New Delhi faculty and other doctoral students. 

Thesis submission and defense: Thereafter, on completion of the proposed research as well as the mandatory publication requirements of the thesis submission, the candidate would inform the Dean Research, Accreditation & Regular Affairs of the same. Check: IMI Delhi Placements

IMI Delhi PhD Specializations

At IMI Delhi, the PhD research scholars can specialize in one of the following areas:

• Economics & Business Environment
• Finance & Accounting
• Marketing
• Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management
• Operations Management & Quantitative Methods
• Strategy & General Management
• Information Management & Business Analytics
• All PhD scholars are expected to complete the program within FIVE years.

IMI Delhi Alumni

• Dr. Neena Rohit Jain, Chief General Manager & RBI Ombudsman, RBI, Mumbai
• Dr Sapna Popli, Professor,IMT Ghaziabad
• Dr Sanjay DHamija, Professor, IMI New Delhi
• Dr Samie A Sayad, Associate Professor, ITM Business School, Maharashtra
• Dr Shweta Pandey, Adjunct Astt. Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Dr. Sheetal Mittal, Case Writer, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Dr Reeta Dubey, Manager, Finance & Strategy, SRF Ltd., Haryana
• Dr. Yesha Seth Dua, Self Emplyed Professional