The Goa Institute of Management (GIM) is a business school located in the state of Goa, India. The autonomous school is governed by a Board, and offers a full-time MBA (PGDBM) program (2 years) and executive MBA (3 years) and also is a resource center for PhD programs in Management for Goa University. Current MBA classes have a size of approximately 240 students. Present Director of Goa Institute of Management is Peter F.X. D'Lima. GIM was ranked 16th in the 2008 MINT Survey of private B-schools in India. Located at Sanquelim, the Business School was founded in 1993 when Padma Shri Fr. Romuald D'Souza (ex Director - XLRI, Jamshedpur and XIMB, Bhubaneswar) moved from XIM, Bhubaneswar to create a center of learning and excellence in Goa. He along with Prof. Anwar Ali, Prof. C.M. Ramesh, Prof. Ranjini Swamy, Prof. V. Gopal, Prof. Suma Damodaran, and Prof. Uday Damodaran started the institute . They managed to convince the then Chief Minister of Goa who also happened to be the brother of Fr. Romuald D'Souza to lease the campus of Goa Dental College. The Campus was initially situated on the banks of the picturesque Mandovi river, in a Heritage Building called Santa Casa De Misericordia.