Story of XIME

Two powerful impulses lay behind the unheralded birth of XIME in May 1991. One was intensely personal and stemmed from what was both a dream and a promise. The other was entrepreneurial, the force that makes heroes of humble men and creates great institutions out of small beginnings.

The personal impulse was fulfillment of a promise that a loving father had made to his daughter who for her part had dared to dream of a model management school for India’s youth arising from their joint effort, but did not live to see it happen. The daughter was Maria Philip, a young university student of exceptional talent and profound idealism and the father was Prof. J. Philip who had made his mark in the field of management education as Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore from 1985 to 1991. Five years after Maria died in a tragic accident, he led a group of kindred spirits in founding a school such as envisioned by his late daughter.

It was that band of experienced professionals who embodied the entrepreneurial spirit – unpretentious but robust – behind the founding of XIME. They included academics, professionals and high minded servants of the church:

Key Founders

Rt. Rev. Dr. Alphonsus Mathias Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore	Prof. J. Philip Former Director, IIM Bangalore Founder President, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS)	Late Prof. J. D. Cherayil Former Professor Indian Institute of Science	Dr. E. Abraham S. J. Director XLRI	Dr. Fr. Percival Fernandez Former Director St. John’s Medical College

The Organization

Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore, was established in May 1991 to meet a universally felt need for an institution offering high quality management education and entrepreneurship development on a strong ethical foundation. Public systems and NGO activity have been other areas with which XIME has actively engaged itself through its mission of service to education. The institute’s flag ship programme is the two year PGDM programme which is equivalent to MBA.

In India XIME occupies a special niche as an institution where admission of students is not linked with donations of any kind, formal or informal reservations or quotas. Merit is the sole criterion for admission to our courses. The diversity of the institute’s student body is one of the best, with all parts of the country represented and women students forming 45-50 percent of every batch.

XIME’s attractive and fully residential campus is located at the heart of the Electronics City of Bangalore – in the neighbourhood of Infosys, TCS, Mahindra Satyam, HP, Wipro and Siemens which connect the city with the wide world. It is indeed a new economy school!

The Chairman of the Board of Governors of XIME is Mr. Sarosh J. Ghandy, former Managing Director, Telcon Ltd. of the TATA Group and Former Chairman of XLRI, Jamshedpur.