The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) and Infosys Wednesday announced a partnership to offer one of the institute's postgraduate programmes in Chennai.

The IIM-B programme would offer a postgraduate degree to software professionals in software enterprise management from the academic year 2004-05.

"Selection of the first batch of about 45 students will be through a special admission test to be conducted in Chennai on March 20," a joint statement said.