Campus

• The campus architecture has won ARCHIDESIGN Award for the Best Institutional / Corporate Building Design – 2007
• The Horticultural maintenance has won the Dasara Overall Rolling Shield award by the City Council successively for 3 times

Academic

• MBA Equivalence to the flagship course PGDM by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education)
• Socially Relevant Project to collaborate with NGOs and Government Agencies for social problems
• Setting up Centers of Excellence for research in the area of Service Excellence and Ethics & Governance
• Library has been recognized as Center for Training by Board of Apprenticeship and Training, MHRD, Government of India, India.

CAT Percentile:   

• Highest : 97.58  ( 2010-12)    99.64 ( 2009-11)

Tie ups / MOU

• Founder Member of Association of BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa] Business Schools (ABBS). 
• International Student Exchange Programs with -
• Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, Texas.
• Global Management Institute, Shanghai University, China
• MOU with the National Stock Exchange (NSE) for launching a joint NCCMP [NSE Certified Capital Market Professional] Program
• MOU with Centennial College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada to increase international collaborations

B-school rankings
SDMIMD is been consistently ranked among top b-school of the country. Few are:

• Competition Success Review (CSR) has ranked 11th under the Top B-schools of Excellence in India and 3rd in Karnataka
• CFore Open Survey has rated 20th among Private B-school at all India level
• Rated 21st among top 50 B-schools by Dainik Bhaskar - Lakshya
• Rated as A++ Category B-School by Business India.
• Listed consistently as one among the most preferred b-school in Southern India category, by The Week Magazine.

SDMIMD students’ achievements

• Team SDMIMD beat 176 B-Schools including IIMA, IIMB and SP Jain, Mumbai in NESTLE Marketing Case Study Competition at IIMA fest.
• Team SDMIMD has won 2nd place in the Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS) Case International Competition held in Guangzhou China.