Udaybhansinhji Regional Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Udaybhansinhji Regional Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar was established in the year 1956. It is an autonomous institution at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. This institute, approved by the AICTE, happens to be a co-educational one, imparting cooperative management education. This Institute is on a 4-acre campus and offers a single postgraduate programme. It has a total intake of students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels of 80, with a faculty strength of 2. Its special focus is agricultural business management. Quality education thus continues to be the hallmark set up at URICM-with state-of-the-art facilities and an industry-oriented curriculum in place and ensured to prepare students to go out to become professional leaders in the cooperative sector.

It also offers a range of facilities for the development of students studying in the institute. Udaybhansinhji Regional Institute of Cooperative Management has separate, well-furnished hostels for both males and females with 80 students' capacity in each. These recreation halls in the hostels come with Wi-Fi accessibility along with leading dailies. A computer lab with 28 Pentium-IV computers connected through LAN and the internet, with Wi-Fi accessibility, ensures that the students are abreast with the technological advancement. Apart from all these facilities, the library of the institute forms a knowledge centre with 8,500 books and 40 journals pertaining to cooperation and management along with an audio-visual unit. This institution also has a health centre cum gymnasium with ultra-modern exercise equipment, sports facilities for indoor and outdoor games, and facilities for recreation and other extracurricular activities to keep the students fit.

URICM has provided only one PG full-time course which is PGDM in Agriculture Business Management. The above-mentioned two-year course has an approved intake of 60 students. This program focuses on providing the students with skills and knowledge in the agricultural business sector.

Admission to URICM is made through competitive nationwide entrance tests. In fact, the institute allows a wide number of management aptitude tests that include CAT, MAT, XAT, CMAT, or even ATMA. For international students, GMAT or GRE scores are considered.