Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management Studies (DYPIMS) is one in the illustrious galaxy of educational endeavors of Dr. D. Y. Patil Pratishthan. The Institute is housed in a spacious and plush building located at D. Y. Patil Pratishthan’s complex, Akurdi, a suburb of the mega industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad. Manufacturing majors like Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Force Motors, Kinetic Engineering, Sandvik Asia etc. rub shoulders with software giants like Infosys, Wipro, Tata Technologies, Kanbay Software etc. in the Pune-Pimpri-Chinchwad twin cities. The nation's civil engineering splendor, the Mumbai-Pune express highway, runs very close to Akurdi. This express-way has brought Pimpri-Chinchwad within 2 hours reach by car to the commercial capital of India, the city of Mumbai.