IIMC admits first foreigner

Travis Donselman of IIM Calcutta’s new PGP batch marks a first on campus. The 26-year-old Californian is, in fact, the first foreign-origin student to join the ranks of the institute’s flagship two-year programme. The decision to head to India wasn’t an impulsive one. It came after enrolling for a masters course in international management at the University of California, San Diego, which he left midway to try for an MBA at an IIM.According to Travis who’s done his bachelors in history from the University of Pennsylvania, he wanted to take up a diplomatic career. But he reevaluated his goals after a stint as an instructor in English writing and history in South Korea.