IIMB's main campus is located on the
Bannerghatta Road in
Bilekahalli suburb in the southern part of the
metro-city of Bangalore. It occupies an area of around 105 acres, and has a non-urban feel with ample greenery. As of 2025, IIMB was setting up a 110-acre second campus 20 km away near
Jigani, in the city's periphery, in
Anekal Taluka of the
Bangalore Urban district. The campus is accessible by private or public transport from anywhere in the city via bike, car, taxi, or bus. A namesake 'IIMB' bus-stop is served adequately by the
BMTC, and is 13 km from the integrated
Kempegowda ("Majestic") Bus Station. The campus is 13 km from
KSR City Junction, 13 km from
Cantt. Railway Station, and 44 km from
Kempegowda International Airport. A
metro station named 'IIMB' on
Pink Line (Namma Metro) is planned to be launched in March 2026.
Architecture The design of IIMB campus was led by the famous architect
B.V. Doshi, , the 2018
Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate,
RIBA 2022
Royal Gold Medal recipient, and
Padma Bhushan awardee. He had worked with the pioneering architect
Le Corbusier in
Paris, and had later assisted the renowned architect
Louis Kahn, in designing IIMA buildings. He had also founded and designed the
School of Architecture in 1966. His firm, the erstwhile
M/s Stein, Doshi, & Bhalla (aided by
M/s Kanvinde & Rai) was commissioned to design the campus. The design was inspired by the 16th-century historic city of
Fatehpur Sikri near
Agra, and the 13th-century
Meenakshi Temple in
Madurai, along with the lush gardens of Bangalore, also known as the
Garden City of India. The first director, N.S. Ramaswamy, had asked Doshi to create a campus to reflect the ethos of the Bangalore city - "green and alive [
sic]".
Light and
Environment were the cornerstones of the
poly-nuclear design, a hybrid of Indian traditional architecture and principles of
Team 10 modernists. The notable architectural elements include the high passageways,
trellises, open
quadrangles with space for greenery, sunlight beaming in through the
pergolas, semi-open corridors, geometrical roofs, rough texture
finish, and
Kota-stone flooring. The design is such that "an interplay of walls-n-openings, lights-n-shadows, and solids-n-voids changes the character of the main building during different times of the day... [
sic]". The 54,000 sq-m original complex is built of hand-chipped
granite stonemasonry, and exposed
concrete. The campus design began in 1977, and the construction of buildings was finished in 1983. The greening effort started later in 1991, and by the 2020s the campus had a green cover of 62 acres with around 30,000 trees, and 50+ ground re-charge wells. Subsequent buildings, like the 6,500 sq-m
New Classroom Complex, were designed by Sanjay Mohe's
Mindspace Architects. The IIMB campus design has won accolades globally. The
'T' (style magazine of
The New York Times) ranked it 17th in their list of
The 25 Most Significant Works of Post War Architecture. When
Dezeen asked thirteen top Indian architecture firms to list their favourite building, IIMB was the only building chosen by more than one, and called it "the most influential piece of (Indian)
modern architecture". The famous
architectural historian and critic
William J.R. Curtis labelled the IIMB campus as a "model" for educational institutions. The institutional project also finds mention in the citation of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize for Doshi. The
Architectural Digest India included IIMB in the list of
6 Educational Institutions in India with Exceptional Architecture. The
GQ (India) magazine ranked it #2 in the list of
7 Most Beautiful Universities and Scenic Campuses.
Management Development Centre The
MDC is to fulfill the
executive-education (Exec.Ed.) and corporate-oriented needs of the institute. It offers facilities for seminars, conferences, sessions, etc. It also has accommodation for corporate-executives, and open space for events. A New MDC (NMDC) on the IIMB's second campus at
Jigani was inaugurated by the
Vice President of India on 1 March 2023.
Library The IIMB library is a four-level 55,000 sq-ft floor-area building abutting the academic block, and renovated in 2016-19. It also offers membership to non-IIMB entities (individuals or organizations). As of 2025, it had 163,000+ printed books, 9000+
journals (incl.
e-journals), 20+ newspapers (in six languages), and 42,000+
issues of
periodicals, predominantly in business and management areas. It also offers 3500+
eBooks, 1400+
audio-visual resources,
OPAC catalogue, and
Union Catalogue of the IIM Libraries Consortium. It provides information services like
EBSCO,
WoS,
Nexis Uni,
Factiva,
Gartner,
UNIDO,
CMIE,
Euromonitor Passport, etc. It also has
E-ShodhSindhu (eSS) subscriptions like
J-Gate,
Project Muse,
ISID Database,
NDLI eBooks/Archives,
ShodhShuddhi PDS system, etc. The library also houses a Library Data Centre with special computer systems for electronic-data needs of the institute. It provides access to 110+
e-Databases, and professional
data services like the
Bloomberg Terminal,
Refinitiv Eikon,
Thomson Reuters SDC,
LSEG D&A Datastream,
Statista,
NielsenIQ, etc. == Administration ==