IIM Sirmaur

IIM Sirmaur is one of the newer Indian Institutes of Management, located at Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, in the quiet foothills near the Uttarakhand border. It carries the IIM name and the structure that comes with it — case-based MBA teaching, admission through CAT, and access to the network effects of the IIM system — while being a young school whose recruiter base and alumni strength are still being built. It holds a NIRF rank of 98 in management. Batch sizes are modest and campus life is self-contained, with Chandigarh and Dehradun the nearest larger cities. It suits MBA aspirants who value the IIM brand and faculty structure over location, and who accept that placements at the newer IIMs trail the established ones.