Overview
- Tata Trusts committed an undisclosed grant to IIM Bangalore on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 to underwrite the launch and early development of the institute's School of Undergraduate Studies.
- The School will open in August 2026 with two four‑year residential BSc (Honours) programmes—Economics with a minor in Data Science and Data Science with a minor in Economics—and an inaugural cohort of 80 students (40 per programme).
- IIMB says the endowment will fund academic and residential infrastructure, support faculty recruitment across disciplines, and seed research clusters in AI, data science, algorithmic design, Indian Knowledge Systems, and applied business learning.
- The new School is sited about 27 kilometres from IIMB’s main Bengaluru campus and IIMB projects long‑term growth to roughly 2,400 students and 100 full‑time faculty once fully operational.
- Tata Trusts framed the gift as part of its century‑long institutional philanthropy and the backing removes a major funding hurdle for IIMB’s rapid move into undergraduate, multidisciplinary, research‑oriented education.