Department of Management Studies, formerly Department of Industrial Engineering and Management was established in 1977 and was offering M. Tech program in Industrial Engineering and Management (IE&M) as well as PhD. Keeping pace with the changing times, the MBA program was launched in 1997 and erstwhile Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IE&M) was restructured and re-christened as Department of Management Studies offering both MTech (IE&M) and MBA programs along with the PhD. In the past department has also been part of dual degree programs in Mining, Mineral and Petroleum Management. Subsequently they launched MBA in Business Analytics in 2020. Department’s rich history of more than four decades has seen its rise from strength to strength, continuously evolving and reinventing itself in tandem with changing business and industrial environment of the country. Along with the routine classroom lectures, students of the department take active part in presentations, seminars, workshops etc. Students of MBA and M. Tech (IEM) programme undergo compulsory organizational internship to obtain hands on experience. The department is having state of the art classrooms with latest audio visual facilities, along with well equipped laboratories like Systems Lab, Psychology Lab, Work Study Lab, and Business Communication Lab. In addition, we have leading databases like Bloomberg, CMIE Prowess database and advanced statistical softwares like SPSS with AMOS module, STATA, MATLAB, R, Python, etc. The department draws its faculty from leading educational institutes of the country who are actively engaged in consultancy assignments, in-house and off-campus executive development programs and research projects. Some of the organisations/institutions that have supported faculty initiatives are AICTE, UGC, ICSSR, MHRD, DGMS, CMPFO, NHPC, Power Grid, CIMFR, CIL and The World Bank. NIRF Ranking (2020): Engineering - 12 NIRF Ranking (2020): Management - 29