Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, [EDII] Gandhinagar

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, [EDII] Gandhinagar was established in 1983. It is an autonomous and a not for profit institution. Various apex financial banks like the IDBI Bank, State Bank of India [SBI], ICICI Bank, and IFCI Bank had sponsored to establish the institution.

The institution offers fellowship programs, postgraduate diploma, and distance learning programs. Admissions for these programs can be done online on the official website of the college. EDII Fees also can be paid on the website of the college.

The Government of Gujarat had pledged 23 acres of land to the college. The institution has established 12 state-level Entrepreneurship Development Centres and Institutes. One of the achievements of the institution was to take entrepreneurship to colleges, schools, science and technology institutions, and management schools in several states by inducing entrepreneurship in their curriculum.

The college has earned accolades and support from the World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, UNIDO, ILO, FNSt, British Council, Ford Foundation, European Union, ASEAN Secretariat, and several other renowned agencies for its efforts to develop entrepreneurship by the way of sharing resources and conducting training programs.

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• Courses
• EDII Facilities
• Collaborations
• Ranking and Awards
• Eligibility Criteria
• Admissions
• Hostel Details

EDII admissions are done on a merit basis and the cut-off marks obtained by the students. The highlights of EDII address, year of establishment, type of institute, approval, accreditations, campus area, exams, e-mail, contact number, and programs offered have been tabled below:

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India Courses:

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India offers postgraduate diploma courses. The courses are under the management stream. 

EDII Facilities:

The institute campus is wifi enabled with high-speed internet bandwidth.EDII has a computer center on the campus equipped with all the modern software and technologies. The institute believes that knowledge has mediums beyond text-books. Thus the student's film club uses films as a tool to educate and spread awareness about various socio-economic problems. The auditorium is spacious and air-conditioned with a seating of 402 students. It also has conference halls with hi-tech audiovisual equipment. All the classrooms are air-conditioned with multimedia setups in each. The library is well maintained with a huge collection of journals, books, articles, and so on. There are 3 air-conditioned dining halls and 1 non-air conditioned dining hall. Hostels are provided to both girls and boys separately.

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India Collaborations:

Over the years EDII has joined hands with several institutes across the globe. The institutes that collaborated with EDII are as follows:

• Newcastle University Business School, UK
• Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Southwest University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), China
• University of West Scotland (UWS), U.K
• University of East London, U.K.
• Kunming Institute of Science and Technology (KUST), China
• The Vocational Training Organisation (TVTO), Karaj, Iran
• Oklahoma State University, USA
• Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (YUFE), China

EDII Rankings and Awards: 

• EDII has ranked as a platinum institute by the AICTE-CII Industry Link Survey Report 2018.
• EDII got featured as AICTE-CII Best Industry Linked Technical Institute in India by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) jointly from the Central Region in 2013.
• The institute bagged the International Mercury Award by MerComm Inc. in 2016-17.
• It won the Times Network Strategy Award awarded by the Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) with the Times Network in 2017.
• EDII got the Excellent Institute for Entrepreneurship Development in India Award during the 11th National Education Summit in 2017.
• It consecutively won the Late Shri Dewang Mehta B-School Leadership Award in the years of  2011,2012,2013,2014.
• In 2013, it also won the Dainik Bhaskar National Education Leadership Award.
• In 1992, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture was awarded to the EDII.

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