Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the government of India as an autonomous organization to help professionalize the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analyzing and disseminating data; and conducting research. Today it is more known as a business school.

Infobox University
name = Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
established = 1963
type = Education and Research Institution
campus = Urban, convert|6|acre|m2
city = Delhi | state = National Capital Region
country = India | website = [http://www.iift.edu/ www.iift.edu]

Courses Offered

IIFT's portfolio of long-term programmes is as follows:

*Two-year residential MBA (International Business) - New Delhi, Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) and Kolkata. This is the flagship course, offering specialization in Marketing, Finance, Systems and Trading.
*Three-year MBA (International Business) (Weekends), New Delhi & Kolkata.
*Executive Master's in International Business, New Delhi, Dubai and Dar-es-Salaam
*Certificate Course in Export Management, New Delhi, Guwahati (Assam)

IIFT has, over the years, undertaken research studies with organizations like WTO, World Bank, UNCTAD and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, government of India. IIFT has also trained more than 40,000 business professionals across 30 countries via its management development programmes.

General Information

IIFT is a deemed university and it conducts an autonomous entrance examination across various centers in India. In 2004 an estimated 35000 candidates took the entrance exam for 100 seats, making it one of the toughest schools to get into in India. In 2006 it opened a centre in Kolkata.

Campus Life

The institute has the following clubs on campus:
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/Brandwagon.asp Brandwagon] : – a forum of students that are interested in marketing, either as a subject or as a preferred career.
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/Blash.asp Blash] : - aimed at equipping members with ideas of the mechanisms of trading.
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/Cashanova.asp Cash-O-Nova] : - The club acts as a platform for discussion and activities in the field of finance.
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/Systemix.asp Systemix] : - the Systems Club at IIFT, aims to provide a platform for information technology.
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/quint.asp Quintessential] : - the quizzing club at IIFT.
* [http://www.iift.edu/iift/Socrates.asp Socrates] : - the Consulting and Entrepreneurship club at IIFT.

Placements

Some of the leading recruiters over the past two years have been Lehman Brothers, Cadbury, Britannia Industries, Cognizant, HCL, Accenture, HP, IBM, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Barclays plc, ICICI Bank, Hindustan Lever Limited, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle, ITC Limited, Aditya Birla Group, SBI, Axis Bank, Cargill, Bunge Limited, Infosys, [http://www.backesandstrauss.com Backes & Strauss] , Australian Wheat Board, Olam International.

Infrastructure

IIFT is located in the Qutab Institutional Area in close vicinity of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India and is spread over six acres of land.

The facilities available on campus include centrally air-conditioned lecture halls with audio-visual aids, conference halls for round-table conferences, an auditorium of 500 seating capacity, MDP Centre, three Computer Centres, indoor games, and residential facilities for students.

Library Facilities

The IIFT library has 84,000 volumes and subscriptions to 800 journals with online cataloguing. The library has a collection of publications of FAO, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCTC, World Bank, and other international agencies.

The students also have access to database such as the NIC, CMIE, India Trades, World Bank Indicators and other audio-visual aids on management. IIFT has set up the WTO Resource Centre in the Library to focus exclusively on WTO issues.

Computer Facilities

Local Area Network comprising 8 servers (Sun, IBM, Compaq and HP), 300 Pentium IV nodes with wired & wireless access to the network available in the campus. The software applications include Solaris, Novell Netware, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Lotus Domino, SPSS, Oracle, Developer 2000, and Java.

Other facilities include 24-hour Internet access via a 2 Mbit/s leased line, access to national and international databases, in-house publishing facilities, LCD / Plasma Screen Projection Systems, etc.

External links

* [http://www.iift.edu IIFT official website]