Among the students learning the ropes of business management at the IIM-A’s flagship Post-Graduate Programme (PGP), as many as 95.54 per cent are engineers currently.
Commerce graduates make up only 2.62 per cent of the class.
Out of a total of 381 students in PGP 2012-14, 364 are engineers and 10 are commerce graduates.
There are also graduates from the science stream (5) and arts and agriculture (one each), according to the statistics available at the premier business school.
Clearly, engineers-as-managers is now the predominant norm in business and industry as well as business education.
Nearly 75 per cent of these engineers have had an average of 23 months’ experience before they joined the IIM-A for PGP, while the rest are fresh graduates.
Even in the PGPX 2012-13 batch, for the executives, 76.47 per cent are engineers, 20 per cent of them from the IITs and NITs.
Those with experience in IT and ITeS make up 34 per cent of students, besides BPOs (three per cent), followed by manufacturing (nine per cent), management consultancy and financial services (seven per cent each), and infrastructure and telecom (six per cent each).
Most of them have work experience of over 10 years, including three years abroad.
Executives from important sectors like energy and power, airline and travel, retail, education and media number only one each.