Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), established in 1979, is one of India’s premier management institutes. Consistently ranked among the best business schools in the country, LIBA represents the unflagging zeal for education that is a unique characteristic of the Jesuit Society. LIBA is a Jesuit institution under the aegis of Loyola College Society, Chennai.

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is a premier B-school, established in 1979 within the premises of Loyola College, to form competent and committed leaders who are ethical, principle-centred and socially responsible with a global perspective and entrepreneurial spirit. LIBA is managed by Jesuits of the Loyola College Society well-known for their outstanding contribution to higher education. LIBA stands for excellence with ethics which are the hallmarks of Jesuit business education and all its programmes and activities embody these two elements. LIBA earnestly strives to inculcate in the students the values of excellence, justice, honesty and service to the society.

LIBA primarily offers a two-year Full-time PGDM course, approved by AICTE and recognized by AIU. It also offers other programmes: Part-time PGDM (AICTE approved), Ph.D. (affiliated to the University of Madras) and one-year executive diploma programmes. The Management Development Centre offers various customised programmes (short-term and long-term) with a focus on skill development. LIBA concentrates on the holistic formation of students in all aspects viz., intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual. The Institution works with an undeterred zeal to offer its students the best education, blending classroom and experiential learning.

VISION

LIBA to be a premier management school promoting academic excellence and professional ethics for individual growth, national development and social welfare.

MISSION

Rooted in the Jesuit principles and practice of education, LIBA strives to:

Provide quality and affordable management education to all students for their holistic formation as men and women of caliber with national vision and social sensitivity.

Become a leading resource centre for research, consultancy, and publication in the business-economy-society interface for promoting knowledge application and facilitating corporate strategies and national policies.

Create academic and research linkages with national and international institutions of repute as platforms for enabling its students, research scholars and faculty to excel in their specializations.

Extend access to managerial knowledge and skills to in-service professionals and new aspirants using tailor-made training programmes for meeting the social goal of access to learning for all.

Recognize those contributing to managerial excellence, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development with internationally acclaimed awards for inspiring their peers to achieve business success with ethics and good governance.

Establish a strong bond with the corporate sector, government, media and society to reinforce the strategic interflow among knowledge, policy, practice and impact.

Encourage social entrepreneurs and small businesses with training, skills and information on resource support to bolster development at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.

VALUES

Passion for Excellence
Ethical conduct
Creative and Critical thinking
Global outlook
Inclusiveness
Social consciousness