MICA Ahmedabad’s new batch comprises 51 per cent women across three programmes —PGDM-C and PGDM, Crafting Creative Communications (CCC), and Fellow Programme in Management (FPM). Of the 244 students in the 2022-23 batch, 124 are women.

Shailendra Raj Mehta, President and Director MICA, said, “Our new batch of students strengthened the now widely-acknowledged fact of MICA being among the most gender-diverse B-schools in the country with a gender ratio of 50:50 at most times.” He went on to say this was because MICA’s entrance test, MICAT, tests analytical and creative skills, as a result of which, students stand out without any preference being granted to them.”

Diverse learners

The current PGP batch of 206 students has 106 male students and 100 female students. About 80 per cent of the PGP class comprises students in the age group of 21-25 years and 54 per cent come with prior work experience.

The PGP batch comprises 31 per cent engineers, 27 per cent commerce graduates, 14 per cent from arts and 9 per cent from sciences. For the CCC programme, 60 per cent of the batch are women, whereas the FPM batch has 80 per cent of female scholars.

The new batch also has students from pharma, hotel management, architecture, fashion technology, law, finance, Ayurveda and journalism apart from arts, commerce, technology and sciences