Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Institute of Rural Management is a Private College and it was established in 1979 and accredited by AICTE, NBA, AIU, NAAC. Institute of Rural Management offers 3 courses in Management streams. Popular courses are Certificate, PGPM, PGPEx. The placement record of the college varies from stream to stream. Highest package was 46.5 Lacs in 2018 academic year.

Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) is an autonomous institution, situate in Anand, Gujarat, India. It was established in 1979 with the help of SDC (Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation), Govt. of India, the erstwhile Indian Dairy Corporation and NDBB (National Dairy Development Board). 

IRMA offers two years full-time PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) course in Rural Management. Which is recognized as equivalent to Master’s degree in Rural Management by the AIU (Association of Indian Universities), approved by the AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) and accredited by NBA (National Board of Accreditation). IRMA also offers Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management and Certificate course in Rural Management (CRM).

IRMA has highly qualified full-time faculty with a blend of academic and industrial experience.

IRMA campus is spread over in sixty acres of land adjacent to the Anand Agriculture University. The campus is well-equipped with student hostels, mess, lecture hall, library, seminar hall, auditorium, and other support facilities. 

IRMA provides separate hostel facilities to all the boys and girls. The campus has nine blocks in the hostel, each with 24 furnished single room. Every floor has a common reading room, which is also used for receiving guests of students.

IRMA library is housed in a three-storied building. It helps the teaching and research programmes of the institute and has 42628 books, 417 audio-video cassettes, 40 CD-Roms, 919 Microforms, 1742 MTS reports, 108 OTS reports, and 309 Fieldwork reports. Additionally, the library has also the subscription of three electronic databases namely Prowess (CMIE, Mumbai), Indiastat.com (Datanet India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi) and ABI/Inform (Proquest Informatics, Bangalore). The fully automated library has the facilities of photocopying, reference, inter-library-loan and bibliographical search assistance to the user.

IRMA provides a huge range of sports facilities to its students and staff. The sports complex has a well-appointed gymnasium and infrastructure facilities for the game like badminton and table tennis. Additionally, there are facilities for sports i.e. cricket, basketball, football, and volleyball.