The Higher Education Review

KV Charitable Trust came into existence in the year 2000 with an aim to provide class-leading education to the students. KV Institute of Management and Information Studies (KVIM) is a Stand-Alone Business School (B SCHOOL) formed and run by a 17-year-old trust KV Charitable Trust that is known for its commitment towards offering best value for money education to the students. KVIM has been approved by AICTE and is affiliated to Anna University in the year 2009. Over the years, KVIM has developed processes and systems that will ensure the best Industry exposure and placements for MBA seekers.

Apart from offering top-notch education, the institute also ensures that their students get placed in top tier companies and the placement preparatory process of KVIM has proven to be successful giving 100 percent placements to MBA seekers. Henceforth, KVIM has progressed to be ranked one of the top 10 B-schools in South India providing excellent academic delivery and infrastructure to its students.

Industry-oriented education at its finest
KVIM operates with a motive to inculcate values of integrity, accountability and fairness so that students are trained to promote and maintain high ethical standards in management. "I finished my MBA in the US from the second-best MBA program in the world. So, I wanted to bring some of those qualities into our institute. As far as challenges are concerned, there are lots of challenges that hold back the management educations sector of the country and this makes the industry academia gap even wider. We

want to bridge this gap by offering industry-oriented education and personal mentoring to the students. We push them to realize their true potential and that helps them to be the best version of themselves. We nurture inspired learners that are strategic and resourceful. All this has helped us to be a top management education institution and even though we receive more applications than the seat that we have, we don't intend to increase the number of seats owing to the fact that we want to focus more on quality rather than quantity", says, Dr.C.Kumar, Managing Director & Professor, KVIM, when asked about the inception ideology and the current management education landscape in India.

KVIM is also the only Business school in South India that works with more than 160 companies and that too are very active MOUs and to ensure that constant industry interaction, KVIM sees to it that if the MOUs are not active for over a year, it gets disconnected. The institute aims to offer the best opportunity and industry exposure and these MOUs help them to offer that to their students. KVIM also has a unique trick up its sleeve called NOVAPORTAL, a software offering a great framework that help the institute to evaluate the students and monitor their progress. The faculty of the institute also work closely with the students to ensure their holistic development. There is a transparent feedback system that makes sure that the faculty of the institute work together to offer the best learning experience for their students.

“KVIM operates with a motive to inculcate values of integrity, accountability and fairness so that students are trained to promote and maintain high ethical standards in management”

Helping students to become capable professionals
KVIM strongly believes that the foundation of value creation lies in the path of continuous learning. The institute acknowledges the fact that its

students would be the catalyst of change for the betterment of the future and hence takes great responsibility in shaping them into Leaders of Tomorrow. To ensure this, the institute has created the right mix of theoretical learning and practical exposure that creates the perfect environment for their students to thrive in these challenging times.

"We equip the students with the needed skills required to thrive in the modern world. We also have different committees who look at the latest industry trends and ensure that our students are trained on that. Our students are even taught networking and all this ensures that our students have an edge in the job market. We offer leadership and other faculty development programs. During COVID, they were trained on how to cope up with online education and how to help the needy through online counseling sessions.

We understand the interests of our students and those students who have an entrepreneurial bug, we guide and mentor them, put them to the right contacts, train them and help develop their ideas. Going forward, we will be introducing a new version of NOVAPORTAL that has better automation facilities and this will help us to further improve the quality of our education. We are also working towards going autonomous and we are preparing ourselves for accreditation", says, Dr.C.Kumar while talking more about the faculty development programs, entrepreneurial activities, and the future plans of the institute.

Dr.C.Kumar, Managing Director & Professor
Dr.C.Kumar was born and brought up in Coimbatore and did his MBA in the US and Ph.D. in India. Apart from that, he also has five certifications which give him a holistic view of the corporate realm. He has always been an out of the box thinker and is result-oriented. He is also an expert when it comes to team building and he leads his team by example. He learns constantly and try to reinvent himself consistently to always stay on top of his game.