The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has received a significant philanthropic commitment from the Tata Trusts for its new undergraduate school in the city.
The new School of Undergraduate Studies, located about 27 kilometres from IIMB’s main campus will initially offer two four-year, full-time residential programmes: a BSc (Honours) in Economics with a minor in Data Science, and a BSc (Honours) in Data Science with a minor in Economics, both commencing in August this year, according to a statement.
The curriculum integrates data science, economics, and business studies into an interdisciplinary framework and will have a cohort of 80 students (40 in each stream).
Tata Trusts Chairman Noel Tata said, “The Tata Trusts have for over a century supported some of India’s most defining institutions like the Tata Memorial Hospital and the Indian Institute of Science.
This support reflects the same instinct, to build institutions of enduring value through support at an early, formative stage when philanthropic capital can shape not just a building or a budget, but the character and ambition of an institution itself.”
