Being the headquarters of the university, it has the largest intake of students annually, and offers and full time MBA and doctoral courses.[17][18][23] The schools also offers UGC approved online BBA, MBA, MA and other management courses.[37] Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore was ranked as 19th in the Top private B-schools in India by careers360 magazine for the year 2014.[41] In addition, it offers a dual degree program leading to an MS in information technology and MBA in collaboration with State University of New York at Buffalo, for working professionals at the Bangalore campus.[55][56] The school in Coimbatore houses the IBM Business Analytics Lab which was inaugurated by Mr. Kaushik Bhaskar, Vice President of Information Integration & Governance Software and India Software Labs IBM India.