Clarification on allegations against IIPM
Two of the biggest allegations made against IIPM were entirely media-driven and competitor-created.
The first major allegation had two components, (and as explained in the previous link) both of which IIPM won comprehensively in court.
1. IIPM was a fake university issuing fake degrees
The Hon’ble High Court of Delhi ruled in IIPM’s favour. It was always clearly stated on all IIPM websites, advertisements, and prospectuses that IIPM offered only certificate and diploma courses. IIPM never claimed to award degrees or to be a university.
2. IIPM required AICTE approval
The Supreme Court of India ruled in IIPM’s favour, confirming that management education is not technical education. Therefore, AICTE approval was not mandatory for IIPM’s programs.
The second major allegation was that IIPM’s placements were poor and that the institute was placing its own students in IIPM itself.
This was perhaps one of the most baseless allegations, especially in the pre-LinkedIn era. In its first 20 years (till 1993), IIPM had placed fewer than 20 of its 2,000+ graduates in the institute. In the subsequent 25 years, IIPM recruited a small number of its brightest students for its own growth. The highest percentage of such recruitment was 25 out of 360 students in 1996. Thereafter, internal placements never exceeded 2% of a batch and had fallen to less than 0.5% by 2013.
Regarding corporate placements, numerous credible media houses and independent B-school surveys consistently ranked IIPM among the top institutes in India for both domestic and international placements. Several IIPM placement records — including the highest number of companies visiting a B-school campus in a year, the highest number of students placed from a single B-school in a year, and the highest number of international placements in a year — remain unbroken to this day.
Today a simple LinkedIn search and research is a testament to the incredible journey IIPM students are having in the greatest of organisations all over the world.