Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research

Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) is a private business school in India. It was established in 1977 by the S.P. Mandali Trust, a charitable organization in Maharashtra. It has two campuses, one in Mumbai and another in Bengaluru¹. The institute is recognized by AICTE, NBA, and is a member of AIU². The institute has been ranked 39th for MBA by India Today in 2023³.

The institute offers various courses at the postgraduate and doctoral levels in various fields such as management, business design, e-business, research and business analytics, healthcare management, retail management, rural management, media and entertainment. The admission to these courses is based on national level entrance exams such as CAT, XAT, ATMA, and GMAT. The institute also has a unique profile-based selection process that assigns significant value to academic performances, work experience, group activity, personal interviews along with written test scores².

Some of the salient features of the institute are:

- The institute has international links with foreign universities such as Audencia Nantes, France; University of Haifa, Israel; Ben-Gurian University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, Israel; IDC Herzliya, Israel; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Otto Fredrich Universitat, Bamberg, Germany; IESEG School of Management, France; Curtin University, Australia; among others².
- The institute has various scholarships for meritorious and needy students such as Silver Lining Scholarship (Alumni Initiative), Dr G : Sun Jewels Scholarship for PGDM Business Design student, Dr Rinti Banerjee Scholarship for PGDM Healthcare Management student².
- The institute has various centers of excellence such as Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED), Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CSIE), Centre for Excellence in Retail Management (CERM), Centre for Excellence in Business Analytics (CEBA), Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Management (CEHM), etc.