LIBA: The school of excellence and integrity

Loyola Institute of Business Administration

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The Loyola Institute of Business Administration ( LIBA ) is one of the premier management institutes of India. The institute, under the aegis of Loyola College Society, Chennai, was established in 1979 and imparts a wide range of management programmes.

From full-time MBA to certificate programmes, LIBA has one for every student coming from different walks of life.

LIBA also focuses on the overall development of the students into complete professionals and helping them discover their ‘true calling’.

The Centres of Excellence at LIBA, complement its teaching and skill development programmes by promoting funded research, quality publications and impact-oriented training and awareness activities on all major issues falling in the thematic area defined by the business-economy-society interface. Prof. C.K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India is especially dedicated to develop business models engaging the poor to bring about socio-economic change in the country.

Having faculty with global exposure, the institute offers dual specialization in functional areas of Marketing, Finance, Systems, Human Resource Management, General Management and Operations.

Collaboration with international universities in countries like the USA, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, China, Australia and Indonesia, offers students an opportunity to take part in student exchange programme.

In order to respond to the challenges and needs of the changing business world - domestic and global - LIBA constantly revises and updates course content through feedback and evaluation.

LIBA’s cutting edge training method and programmes ensure that the students graduating from the institute are immediately taken in by some of the biggest business brands. Over 50 top companies participate in LIBA’s placement process every year and hire the students offering handsome pay packages, starting from Rs 9 lakh per annum (average). The highest pay package offered is Rs 21 lakh per annum.

LIBA follows the simple dual-phase procedure of admission wherein the candidates are shortlisted on the basis of their scores in competitive exams (CAT and XAT) and invited for Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GDPI). Those who clear the GDPI round are granted admission.

The candidates will be judged upon their personality, attitude, communication skills, maturity, leadership quality and judgement, motivation and subject knowledge, in the GDPI round.

For the academic session 2017-19, the candidates having CAT 2016 scores or XAT 2017 scores, can apply online by logging on to the official website www.liba.edu

Placement companies that participated during 2015