ISB admits 579 candidates for Class of 2010; O Week held

This year the mean age of the new batch is 27 years, with maximum age being 39. The GMAT score average is 716, with 22 percent scoring 750 and above. The Class has an average work experience of five years. There are 336 students with international work experience, while 17 students were self-employed before joining the ISB. 26 percent of the total body of students are female, and 28 percent of the Class is married.

The Class of 2010 represents work functions as diverse as IT Consulting products, Law, Media, Communication, Medicine, Marine Engineering, Consulting, Finance etc. Says ISB, Class of 2010 is a group of students diverse in interests, ambitions, and points of view. Together they bring to the ISB the strength of diversity, in terms of professional and cultural perspectives.

Sportsperson are flocking the ISB campus in a big way. ISB will have youngest volleyball match referee in Olympic, a marathon runner, and a scuba diver.

ISB shares that the Class is chequered with a University Gold Medallist in Pharmaceutical Sciences, a GE Innovator award winner who has filed 8 patent applications, a 6 patents holder in semiconductor industry. The new Class also boasts of a winner of the Presidents Police Medal for Gallantry, a recipient of medals for leading 106 men in counter insurgency operations, and a Siachen Glacier Medal Award winner.

Earlier on April 11, the Orientation Week or O Week at the Indian School of Business (ISB) constituted 25 events was held. Dean Ajit Rangnekar addressed the new Class, welcoming each of them followed by a small presentation by the Graduate Students Board, a presentation on the ISBs Portfolio Faculty Model by Professor Ravi Bapna and a grand welcome dinner for the Class of 2010. The week comprised an endless event list of entertainment, club presentations, leadership development programmes, competitions, interactive activities etc. Students were divided into 8 sections and each section was led by 10-12 alums. The week kicked off with innovative, funfilled games to break the ice and also to set the pace for the entire year at the ISB. Gyan sessions, a brief on the achievements of the section in the last academic year, a presentation on ISB traditions, an impromptu tutorial on section chants, campus tours, treasure hunts to familiarise students with the campus, were a few highlights of the O week.

The class of 2010 seems like a very initiative-taking batch. In just two days they managed to change three section chants, which have been there for years. The section I am leading has two national level Bharatnatyam dancers, the youngest referee from India for Volleyball at the Olympics, etc. It is a very diverse batch and I am very glad that diversity at the ISB is increasing said alum Rajarshi Ray, President of the Net Impact Club, Class of 2009.
The orientation programme has been very well arranged. The clubs and the presentations made by the Centres of Excellence were very impressive and it just added to the idea I already had about ISB, said Sumedha Chakraborty, Class of 2010. Said Rishika Chandan, Class of 2010, O Week was a very well thought out and well structured programme. It was very strenuous but it has taught me how to get the right balance.