The two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, Government of India and recog-nized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) as equivalent to an MBA degree of an Indian University, is consistently rated among India’s top 10 programmes.
Programme Learning Goals (LGs)
• Responsible Citizen consciousness
• Global perspective
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Effective communication and collaborative decision-making
• Functional Competency
Target Capabilities
• Global mindset and sensitivity
• Holistic business perspective
• Capability to manage uncertainty and complexity
• Capability to lead change
• Capability to create wealth and manage diversity
Teaching and Learning
The teaching methods include lectures, case studies, seminars, assignments, live pro-jects, group discussions, business games, outbound based experiential learning activi-ties, educational excursions, role plays, simulation exercises, structured and unstruc-tured group work, and field visits.
• Widespread use of Information Technology (IT) in the learning processes.
• Field-based projects to get better insights into workplace reality.
• The curriculum is revised on an ongoing basis with practitioner input.
• Courses are offered from the following areas:
Accounting & Finance | Operations | Management | Economics & Public Policy | Marketing | Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management | Infor-mation Management | Strategy & General Management.
Programme Structure
Core Courses
- Six terms of about three months each —three in each year of the programme.
- The core (compulsory) courses are covered in four terms, with the bulk covered in the first three terms.
Summer Internship
- Compulsory eight-to-ten weeks long internship after term 3.
Specializations
- Second year students may take elective/ optional courses to specialize in a maximum of two of the following functional areas: Accounting & Finance | Operations Management | Marketing | Strategy | Information Management.
- Specialization requires a minimum of five elective courses (15 credits) offered by that Area.
- Students can opt for 14 to 17 electives (42 to 51 credits).
- CGPA would be calculated using the 14 electives (42 credits) completed with best performance.
Evaluation
India follows a continuous evaluation system. A student earns a letter grade in each course with an associated grade point. The credit-weighted average of these grade points in the programme is the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
Student Exchange Programme
- A student can study for one term in a partner foreign institution in lieu of his/her study term at India.
- A number of international scholarships are available for these students.
- Details on the selection process and opportunities will be available after joining India.
Scholarships
- O.P. Jindal scholarship of INR 1,50,000 for second year students.
- At the end of the second year, India awards five merit scholarships of INR 10, 000/- each to the top five students.
- India offers merit-cum-means Scholarship scheme for the meritorious students to pursue PGDM courses at India belonging to economically weaker Sections (EWS). It is envisaged to provide 12 merit cum means scholarships (50% waiver of tuition fees) every year to the students pursuing two-year full time PGDM/PGDM-HRM/PGDM-IB/PGDM-Business Analytics at India starting from AY 2021-22.
International Scholarships
Several international scholarships are available for Indian students going on the exchange programme to select partner institutions, e.g Sciences Po Lille, University or Maribor, NUCB Business School, Japan.