XLRI gets AICTE approval for Delhi-NCR campus

Jamshedpur: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has given its approval to XLRI-Xavier School of Management here to start the 2020-22 academic session in its in .

“XLRI is India’s first B-school and for 70 years, we just had one campus, which was in Jamshedpur. We are glad to announce that XLRI’s Delhi-NCR campus is all set to start the 2020-22 academic session after we received an approval from AICTE,” said , Jamshedpur director Fr P Christie in a statement on Thursday.

XLRI announced the commencement of its admission process for the first batch of students for the session. A total of 120 students, divided into two sections with 60 pupils each, will be admitted for the business management programme in the Delhi-NCR campus’s first academic session.

Fr George Sebastian, director, XLRI Delhi-NCR, said the pedagogy and the curriculum in the new branch will be similar to the ones being followed in Jamshedpur. “We will follow the admission and the placement processes of XLRI Jamshedpur,” Sebastian said.

Soon, the new campus will offer a broad portfolio of courses, besides the two-year postgraduate programmes in human resource management and business management.

The campus building has been planned using detailed sun studies and by applying concepts of solar-passive architecture. The new campus has also earned a gold-level green building certification and it has been designed using IGBC (Indian green building council) guidelines to get a platinum rating from IGBC in the future.