Infrastructure
The XIMB Campus
The Institute is located on 20 acres of verdant campus on the Nandan Kanan Road in the neighborhood of NALCO, Fortune Towers, Tech Mahindra and other renowned business houses and institutions. The entire Wi-Fi enabled campushouses the faculty residences, office complex, library and computer center complex, class room complex, auditorium complex, residences for gents, ladies, and executive programme participants, CENDERET office complex, Management Development Centre (MDC) and Studio Apartments. In addition, the Institute has a floodlit basketball court, two floodlit tennis courts, indoor badminton court, gymnasium, and playgrounds for cricket and soccer.
Management Development Centre
The Institute has set up a Management Development Centre (MDC) on campus with all modern facilities. It has 3 suites, and 34 twin-sharing, air-conditioned rooms with round the clock internet connection. The MDC has four training halls with the latest training aids. In addition to all these, the Institute has built a hi-tech air-conditioned auditorium which can seat 850 people.
Class Room Complex
The Class Room Complex includes air-conditioned lecture halls, seminar rooms, syndicate rooms, multi-media hall, computer labs and an executive class rooms. The class rooms are equipped with educational audio/video equipment; tablet PCs, computers with large monitors, LC D projectors and network connections. While most classes are held in the lecture halls, some prefer the lawn adjacent to the classroom complex for education with the soulful touch of nature.
Library
An academician’s paradise, the XIMB library boasts of a modern and comprehensive collection of information resources that play a vital role in the academic pursuits of students as well as academia. The three storied library has an ever increasing collection of printed as well as electronic resources which include books, journals, working papers, audio visual resources, dissertations, annual reports of corporate houses, volumes of periodicals, and online databases like Bloomberg EBSCO, ISI Emerging Market Database, CMIE, IndiaStat and many others. The students also have an option to access information through a robust and user friendly “Library Information System”, which provides access to electronic journals, news articles and analyst reports.
Resources
- Publications: Over 36,000
- Journals and Periodicals: Over 8,500
- Databases: Bloomberg, Online Journals (EBSCO, Proquest, IEEE Computer Society Journals, SAGE Publications, etc), Country Research and Information (IndiaStat, ISI emerging markets, etc) and Corporate/Industry Information (Prowess, CMIE, etc)
IT Infrastucture
Knowledge today is not bound within the textbooks or reference materials. It is imperative that students keep themselves abreast of the recent developments in the industry. Hence, good internet facility and a robust IT network is more of a necessity than a luxury. The institute boasts of an impeccable IT infrastructure in the campus. Having an internet bandwidth of 90 Mbps, facilitated by Wi-Fi throughout the campus, hostels, class rooms and faculty residences, the entire XIMB fraternity has 24x7 access to the outside world. The institute also boasts of in-house self-developed software applications like Library Information System (LIS), Academic Information System (Hibiscus), Accounting Information System (PAMIS), Work Flow Applications, Inventory Management System, Payroll System, Internet Survey (iSurvey), Examination On-Line (EOL), Leave Accounting System, Management Development System, HR System, File Management System etc. Each of these applications facilitates students in building up their knowledge at every stage.
Residential facilities
With academic activities round-the-clock, students are required to live on the campus. There are separate Residences for gents and ladies. All the rooms have 24-hour Internet connectivity through the latest Wi-Fi technology. With the installation of laser printer and photocopying machines, round-the-clock printing and copying facilities are available to the students. The Residences also has a Multi-purpose Hall, Cooperative Store and a Book Club. All the Residences are equipped with washing machines, water coolers, geysers, telephones, televisions, and indoor games like carom and table tennis. We also have facilities for undisturbed power supply to all the Residences during power failure. The Mess is managed by a students’ committee and serves both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals. The X-cafe provides a variety of fast food to the students who work till late in the night. The Executive Hostel has 48 air-conditioned and self-contained single rooms and a mess managed and run by the Institute. The Studio Apartments have 12 self-contained, air-conditioned flats, 5 Faculty Quarters, 72 self-contained, non-air-conditioned, twin-sharing rooms, and 24 self-contained, furnished, double sharing rooms for Management Training Programs. A doctor is available for consultation in the campus from 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. every day except on Sundays. A dispensary is set up in the University Campus where the doctor is available from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. every day except on Sundays. An ambulance is available for 24x7 for the emergency. A fulltime nurse will be assigned to help the residents for consulting any health concerns. All the residences have security guards to safeguard and to stop any outsiders entering into the residences.
Sports and fitness facilities
XIMB prepares students for the corporate wars by providing the best sports facilities. The fitness enthusiasts can experience body-mind balance by working out in the well-equipped gymnasium and jogging tracks. Basketball, Badminton, Cricket, Football, Tennis, Table Tennis and Volleyball are the popular campus sports. The students participated in the sports meet called ‘Valhalla’ at XLRI, Jamshedpur in the last academic year and were the runners-up of the whole sports event. Periodical sports events are organized by the sports committee to add relaxation for the physique as well as to revitalize from intellectual fatigue. Besides sports events, the Student Executive Council (SEC ) takes initiatives in arranging cultural events and intellectual programs.