IIM Kozhikode: the fifth IIM, founded in 1996, with a first batch of 42 and a hill-top campus at Kunnamangalam
Background
In 1996 Kozhikode became the 5th IIM to be founded by the Government of India.
The inaugural batch of the PGP in Management began in 1997 with 42 students at the NIT-C campus.
In 2003 the institute moved to a new 97-acre hill-top campus in Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode.
In 2012 IIMK set up a satellite campus in Kochi for Executive Education.
In 2013 IIM Kozhikode inaugurated the first ever Indian Business Museum.
In 2015 IIM Kozhikode mentored the setting up of IIM Amritsar, the 15th IIM in the country.
In plain words
PGP Post Graduate Programme in Management — The flagship programme whose inaugural batch began in 1997 with 42 students.
IIMK Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode — The short form used on the institute's own growth-history page.