The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the Government of India as an autonomous organization. It a UGC recognized, Deemed University. It is situated at Qutab institutional area surrounded by Jawaharlal Nehru University, IIT Delhi and Qutab Minar.
The college has its campuses in Delhi and Kolkata.
To know more about Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, please visit their website at www.iift.edu, where you can check news update, application form, exam dates, admit cards, placement drive dates, and more other important details. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is well known college/university among students these days.Dr. Sujit Mitra is working as the director of IIFT. He was topper of Utkal University and JNU where he post-graduated in Political Studies. Later in 1983, he completed his Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (1998-99) and taught International Trade in the University of Oxford. He also taught in Delhi University, North Eastern Hill University and JNU between 1974 to 1977.
Some prominent faculty members are:
- Name: Dr. (Mrs.) Vijaya Katti
Function: Professor & Chairperson
Email: vijayakatti@iift.ac.in
Qualification: Post Doctoral Research, Ph.D., M.A. (Economics), B.A., HSSC
Areas of Interest / Specialization:
- Indo-Nepal Economic Relations
- India's Trade with SAARC
- Textiles & Clothing,
- GATS & Trade in Services
- WTO Related Issues
- Name: Dr. (Mrs.) Satinder Bhatia
Function: Professor & Chairperson
Email: satinderbhatia@iift.ac.in
Qualification: M.Com. M. Phil. (Organization Behaviour), Ph.D. (Financial Management)
Areas of Interest / Specialization:
- Managerial Accounting
- Project Appraisal & Finance
- Financial Management
- International Financial Management
- Name: Dr. Ravi Shanker
Function: Professor & Chairperson
Email ravi@iift.ac.in
Qualification: Dr. Ravi Shanker holds Masters Degrees in Management and in Science, besides the Ph.D.
Areas of Interest / Specialization:
- Marketing Management
- Services Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- online Executive Management Programme
IIFT has a vast campus of 6 acres overlooking the magnificient Qutab Minar along with all the facilities which include:
- 1. Administrative Building and Lecture Halls: The college has centrally air-conditioned lecture halls with modern audio-visual aids and conference halls for round-table conferences
- 2. Auditorium: An auditorium of 500 seating capacity is present in the college campus and a MDP Centre.
- 3. Computing facilities: Three Computer Centres with a Local Area Network comprising dedicated servers & storage for private cloud, 300 Pentium Core 2 Duo / i7 nodes with wired & wireless access to the network available in the campus. The software applications include Windows 2008, SPSS, Oracle, Visual Basic and Java.
- 4. Sports Facilities: Facility for Indoor games is there within the college
- 5. Hostel Facilties: IIFT offers excellent residential facilities for students. It has a separate wing for girls and boys.
- 6. Library Facilities: The library has 1,00,000 book volumes and subscriptions to 800 journals with complete online cataloguing. It has an unique collection of publications of FAO, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCTC, World Bank, and other international agencies.
Social Life:
The institute has the following clubs on campus:
- Blash - Provides Platform for students to learn and discuss about various facets of Trade and International Business.
- Brandwagon – a forum of students that are interested in marketing, either as a subject or as a preferred career.
- Cash-O-Nova - The club acts as a platform for discussion and activities in the field of finance.
- Systemix - Systems Club at IIFT which aims to provide a platform for Information Technology.
- Quintessential - Quizzing club at IIFT.
- Socrates - Consulting club at IIFT.
- E-Cell - Entrepreneurship Cell at IIFT
- Koshish - CSR Club at IIFT
- EOM-Cell - The Energy, Operations & Manufacturing Cell at IIFT
- ABC - The Africa Business Cell at IIFT
The institute has a Corporate Relations Committee(CRC).The Corporate Relations Committee is an elected body of four members. The CRC is headed by a convener. The purpose of the CRC is to maintain constant interaction with corporate partners and associates of IIFT and to arrange interactions with corporates on a regular basis.
The students of MBA (IB) course also issue five monthly magazines:
- Trade Winds - The Magazine on Trade and International Business
- Markmantra - The magazine for Marketing
- Infineeti - The magazine for Finance
- Techtonix - The magazine for IT
- Strategos - The magazihttp://subtitlehub.com/hrsk_gh_cntrl/Default.aspxne for Consulting and Strategy
The Institute also conducts Trade Winds, the flagship event of IIFT for corporate interactions, and the annual management festival Quo Vadis.
IIFT offers an active placement cell under elected committee of 10 members from both campuses headed by a convener. The aim is to offer summer placements for MBA students
- Organise placement weeks and interview
- Pre placement talks by companies in the campus
