IIPM is not accredited by UGC or All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and is not affiliated with the public Indian Institutes of Management.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) – a government organisation responsible for the standards of university education in India – and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have repeatedly issued public notices stating that they do not recognise IIPM, and that they deem its technical programmes invalid.

[7] In September 2014 Delhi High Court censured IIPM for misleading students and restrained it from using words like MBA, BBA, management course, and B-school to describe the programs it offered.

[12] IIPM had 18 branches across India; in New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Pune, Lucknow, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Jaipur, Dehradun, and Cochin.

[13] IIPM was barred by the UGC from offering among other degrees, MBA or BBA programs after irregularities surfaced on its claims and functioning.

[18][19][20][21] Under the Global Outreach Programme, IIPM invites faculty members from business schools to its campuses to teach its students.

The institute tries to give its students a "hands on" approach to learning, assigning them to work on consulting projects in major firms.

[27] All students of the institute attend a 21-day compulsory trip to Europe as part of its Global Opportunities and Threat Analysis (GOTA) programme.

[19] In the same year, IIPM launched a global executive management programme with Chicago GSB and the Haas School of Business associated with it.

[35] Between 2009 and 2012, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University sent students to the institute for a four-week course about Indian culture and economy.

[37] The Mercator School of Management of Duisburg-Essen University has a formal partnership with IIPM for exchanging students and faculty, and jointly conducting research.

[43] In June 2008, the Delhi High Court advised the UGC and IIPM to settle the matter amicably through an out-of-court settlement.

Saxena also said that IIPM had made representations to UGC and Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education to clarify its position and that the subject was sub judice at the Delhi High Court.

[24] Students of IIPM's Indian School of Business and Economics (ISBE) were informed by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University that theirs is a distance-learning degree arrangement.

[42] IIPM has been involved in controversies related to its claims about infrastructure, job placements and affiliation with international institutes.

In February 2013, a district court in Gwalior passed an order asking India's Department of Telecommunications to block access to 78 URLs critical of IIPM,[55] which led to online protests.

In response, IIPM called JAM's statements an attempt to spread baseless rumours and filed a lawsuit against Bansal.

[77][better source needed] The IIPM reportedly used paid editors to doctor its article and those of its critics on the English Wikipedia, for promotional purposes.

A Wikipedia user identified by the username Wifione was highly involved in such activity, monitoring the IIPM article to remove content that was critical of the institute.

It was also found that Wifione had used at least 60 "sockpuppet" accounts on the website to influence discussions in favor of modifications to the page that reflected the opinion of the IIPM.

[80] However, all proceedings in the criminal complaint filed by IIPM against Careers360 was quashed by the Uttarakhand High Court by its judgement dated 8 October 2010.

This court does not find anything defamatory in the article", and that IIPM could show "no proof of their claim that they grant degree from Buckingham University!

"[69][81] In December 2013, Livemint.com reported that public-interest litigation filed in 2010 by Mahesh Sarma, the editor of Careers 360, led to the Delhi High Court barring IIPM from publishing any TV, print or online advertisements without first obtaining the court's approval, given that past IIPM advertisements had potentially misled the public.

[59][60] According to Livemint.com, the interim court order was based on an affidavit by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which stated that IIPM advertisements had the potential to "mislead innocent students and public at large"; a UGC committee investigating the issue had found that the "practice of issuing such dubious advertisements by IIPM to attract students deceptively should be stopped forthwith".

[85] In May 2007, The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) – an anti-monopoly watchdog – initiated a probe into IIPM's advertisements.

Palanimanickam said, "IIPM has not paid income tax during the assessment years 2005–06 and 2006–07, claiming exemption under section 10(23C) (vi) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

"[94] In April 2009, the Indian government stated that there were "no pending tax claims against IIPM" and the case had been closed after due enquiry.