It aims at providing educational facilities to train young men and women for careers in management, primarily in the corporate sector. Admissions are held through the Combined Admission Test to the two-year full-time course leading to the award of Postgraduate Diploma in Management, equivalent to a Postgraduate Programme.

Curriculum

The curriculum is designed to impart knowledge and skills considered essential for managers to operate successfully in the increasingly dynamic and complex environment. It sharpens and deepens the student's understanding at different levels:

The individual in the organisational setting;
The environmental context of the organisation;
The dynamics of organisational functioning; and
The analytical tools and techniques required in the management of organisation effectively

Fellow Programme in Management: Doctoral level programme, aims at training and developing scholars for distinguished careers in teaching, training, research and consulting in management. The programme aims to provide integrated view of management as a discipline while at the same time allowing students to focus on specific functional areas of their choice.

It is a full time residential programme. The normal time span for completing the requirements of the programme is four years. Accordingly, students are required to stay on campus for four years. The programme involves two years of course work followed by two years of research work.

The programme has the following requirements:

Mandatory course work
Comprehensive Examination
Dissertation work leading to the formulation of thesis proposal for Doctoral level research

Thesis work. On successful completion of the course work, comprehensive examination and dissertation , the student starts working on his/her doctoral thesis.

Agriculture Management Centre (AMC)has been established at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow for providing expert advice to implementing agencies of Agricultural Development Projects for improving the effectiveness of the projects. Besides, it aims to generate knowledge of efficient management of farm sector through field-based research leading to suitable policy interventions and imparting training to development administrators, policy makers and corporate managers.

The Centre focuses on field-based research to improve the productivity of farms to bring rural prosperity that can lead to improvement in the quality of rural life through prioritisation of resource allocation, efficient and effective management of productive resources through farming system approach in a sustainable manner. At present, the Centre is providing consultancy services, primarily on monitoring and evaluation to the Uttar Pradesh Diversified Agriculture Support Project (UPDASP) funded by the World bank. This project is to be launched in 70 districts of Uttar Pradesh, covering areas like agriculture, sericulture, horticulture, rural markets, rural roads and animal husbandry. With the start of the AMC, the Government of India has associated with the Institute in preparing the Manual for Monitoring and Evaluation of National Agriculture Technology Project (NATP) which has been started in six states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himanchal Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra and Punjab.

IIML has launched educational and training programme in the neighbouring countries. It publishes a scholarly and pragmatic journal entitled "METAMORPHOSIS: A Journal for Business Leaders".

MANFEST is the annual management festival of IIML. The event attracts students from the leading business schools across the country and provides the Corporate World a unique opportunity to sponsor the event, and bond with the leaders of tomorrow.