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Great Lakes Institute of Management (also known as Great Lakes or GLIM)

Great Lakes Institute of Management (also known as Great Lakes or GLIM) is a private business school in India. It was founded in 2004 by Bala V. Balachandran, a professor at Kellogg School of Management with its first campus in Chennai. Great Lakes’ second campus started functioning in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR on 2011. Great Lakes offers full-time and executive post graduate programmes in management. It only offers programs in Data Science, Business Analytics & Cloud Computing. These programs are best suited for professional who have good knowledge about programming languages. Great Lakes was accredited by AMBA, one of the three main global accreditation bodies. It has two campuses, one on the outskirts of Chennai and one in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR. Great Lakes Institute of Management is among the first business schools in India to offer a one year full-time management programme. Its one year Post- Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) became the first one year full-time management programme to be accredited by India’s higher technical education regulator AICTE in 2008. Currently, at the helm of Great Lake Institute of Management is Dean & Principal Dr Suresh Ramanathan. Dr Suresh has a B. Tech. degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has received his Ph.D. from NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2002. Before joining Great Lakes, Dr Suresh was an Associate Professor of Marketing at the prestigious University of Chicago Booth School of Business between 2002 - 2011, and later, Professor of Marketing for close to 8 years at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.