KIIT School of Management (KSOM) has a long history of academic excellence, providing industry-focused management education. It was founded in 1993 as Institute of Business Administration and Training (IBAT) with a vision to make it a trend setting centre for business education, where young minds are provided the right balance of classroom learning and practical exposure to turn into successful professionals and inspiring leaders.Today, as part of the prestigious KIIT deemd to be University, KSOM has delivered on that vision. KSOM has extended its areas of influence from Eastern India to the whole country and already has many impressive achievements to its credit. NAAC's rating of KSOM as A grade and 30th rank in NIRF, MHRD, Govt. of India is a testimony to that. Spread over an area of 35 acres, the institution houses more than 1000 students across three courses: BBA, MBA and Doctoral program in Management. This is an institution that believes in making business education highly relevant through periodic course review, regular industry interaction, hands-on exposure and has faculty with the right mix of industry and academic experience. 80% of the faculties are from industry or with Ph.D and over half of the faculty are from IIMs, IITs, TISS, MDI, XLRI and other premier institutes.