Overview
- ISB announced the ISB25 Scholars Programme offering 250 scholarships each year across its PGP and PGP YL courses with tuition waivers of 100%, 50%, 30% and 25% awarded on merit and financial need.
- The institute unveiled plans for an India Research Commons, a national platform to give researchers curated datasets, research tools, methodological resources and AI-enabled infrastructure.
- ISB said it will launch a national faculty development programme to share its classroom methods and technology-enabled teaching practices with management schools around the country.
- The package of commitments is presented as part of ISB’s 25th anniversary strategy to widen socioeconomic and geographic access and to make faculty research more usable for policymakers and industry.
- The moves build on recent ISB initiatives such as the 2025 PGP YL intake and the ISB Discover platform and could increase peer institutions’ research capacity, teaching quality and student diversity if implementation details and funding are clarified.