Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Key Highlights

• Established in 1996 as India’s fifth Indian Institute of Management
• An autonomous body corporate and institution of national importance under the IIM Act, 2017
• Active in 2026, with MBA and PhD degrees awarded at the April 2026 convocation
• Offers programs at both the Kozhikode and Kochi campuses

Student Life & Environment

Student experience differs materially by program and campus. At the main Kozhikode campus, residential life is central to the two-year postgraduate experience. IIMK reports 20 hostels with capacity for about 1,400 students. Rooms are assigned on either a single or shared basis and include network connectivity. Classrooms, the computer centre, canteens, and other academic facilities are within walking distance of the hostels. Recreation facilities listed for the hostel area include badminton and basketball courts, a football field, a volleyball court, table tennis, a gymnasium, common rooms, and a music room. The campus also has multiple canteens, restaurants, and kiosks. Student Affairs supports a Students’ Council, committees, clubs, interest groups, chapters, events, and a dedicated hostel office. These structures give postgraduate students routes into cultural, professional, social, and administrative activities beyond coursework. Students should not assume that these Kozhikode residential arrangements automatically apply to every program. The new BMS is delivered at the Kochi Campus, while executive and blended programs follow their own schedules and formats. BMS applicants should consult the program’s current accommodation and student-services information before committing, because its published fee schedule treats hostel and mess charges as separate and the general hostel page describes the main IIMK campus.

Location & Surroundings

The principal campus is in Kunnamangalam, in the Kozhikode area of northern Kerala, with the postal address IIMK Campus P.O., Kozhikode 673570. The institute describes the site as a roughly 112.5-acre campus spread across two hillocks. It became IIMK’s permanent home after the institute’s initial years at the NIT Calicut campus. The setting is physically separate from central Kozhikode, so students should assess daily transport, arrival logistics, and the residential expectations of their particular program rather than treating the database’s city label as a city-centre location. IIMK also operates a Kochi Campus in Kakkanad, within the Kochi metropolitan area. This distinction is especially important from 2026–27 because the new full-time BMS is taught in Kochi, not at the principal Kozhikode campus. Some executive education is also associated with Kochi. Applicants comparing housing, commute, climate, facilities, or local career access should use the campus specified on the relevant program page; facilities described for one site should not be assumed to exist at the other.

Costs & Career Outcomes

Costs vary substantially by degree and delivery format. For the BMS 2026–30 cohort, the official schedule sets the program fee at INR 700,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. It covers tuition, course materials, and academic and administrative components. Hostel and mess charges are additional, as are costs connected with exchange visits, study tours, industry visits, projects, and internships. The schedule also lists a one-time INR 10,000 admission fee, a refundable INR 25,000 caution deposit, a INR 10,000 alumni fee at graduation, and a INR 2,000 annual student-welfare contribution. Students must maintain the specified medical-insurance coverage. These figures apply to the 2026–30 BMS cohort, not automatically to other programs or later intakes. IIMK publishes a separate 2026–28 fee schedule for the flagship PGP, so applicants should use that program document rather than the BMS figures. The full-time DPM currently states that it has no tuition fee and provides a staged monthly fellowship; the Teaching and Practice Tracks charge program fees and do not provide that fellowship. Scholarship information for the two-year PGP family includes an institute merit scholarship based on academic performance, alongside other listed schemes whose eligibility varies. Career support is also program-specific. For the two-year PGP, PGP-Finance, and PGP-LSM, the institute runs lateral and final placement processes, with final placements held near the end of the second year. The BMS separately advertises internships and career services, but its first cohort only begins in 2026–27, so no BMS graduate placement outcomes yet exist.