Programme
The two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), rated as the toughest MBA programme in the world to get admission, is the flagship programme of IIMA. Its main objective is to develop young men and women into competent professional managers, capable of working in any sector of organized activity, proceeding leadership and achieving excellence in performance while contributing to the welfare of the larger society. The programme specifically attempts to:
- Equip students with the required conceptual and interpersonal skills and sense of social purpose for managerial decision-making,
- Develop leadership capabilities to act as change agents and be a source of motivation in the organizations they work in,
- Nurture the desire to excel in performance without compromising integrity, honesty and fairness.
IIMA is known for the depth and rigour of the programme. The curriculum, reviewed and revised periodically, remain relevant and contemporary.
Curriculum
The PGP curriculum is the result of constant innovation and continuous review by the faculty with help from practitioners in industry, alumni and students. The programme offers four types of courses spread across two years viz. foundational, tools and techniques oriented, functional and perspective-building courses. It also provides opportunities for project courses and courses of independent study during the second year.
The compulsory/ core courses focus on rigorous grounding in the rudiments of every discipline in management and the development of a common foundation of business knowledge and management theory. The core courses consist of 480 sessions (Approx.) encompassing 24 credits (Approx.).
After the first year of programme, students undertake summer training with Institute's corporate partners for a period of eight to nine weeks. The Summer Internship is a powerful source of practical managerial insights, validation of management concepts, and valuable market knowledge.
The elective courses which are offered in the second year of the programme allow students to choose a bouquet of courses that interest them and develop proficiency in the areas of their choice. The elective courses consists of in-class courses (often with project components) offered by different areas, courses of independent study, exchange programmes, and intensive field courses, totalling 19 – 22 credits (380-440 sessions) over three Terms. Each of the Terms consists of 09 to 12 weeks' duration. Each credit requires a minimum of eighty hours of work.
Types of Courses
a) |
Regular Course: This helps a student to learn tools, techniques, skills and concepts primarily through class discussions. |
b) |
Seminar Course: This provides a specified number of class sessions and time for research to explore the frontiers of knowledge. |
c) |
Projects: These are designed to suit individual student needs. There are four categories of projects. (1) An Independent Project, (2) Project Course, (3) Course of Independent Study, and (4) Comprehensive Project. |
- An Independent Project provides an opportunity to apply the tools, techniques, skills and concepts, which a student may have already learnt, to the study of actual problems through field studies, computer based analysis and library research.
- Students can do independent projects (IP) (Non Credit) for up to one per set of two slots. These can be undertaken only with the prior permission of the instructor(s) concerned. The project proposals, duly approved by the guide(s) should be submitted to the PGP Office before the start of slot IX and XI. The IPs would not be taken into account towards meeting the credit requirements in second year and their grades would not be accounted in GPA calculation.
- The Course of Independent Study (CIS) (2 credits) allows exploration of a topic in the student's "area" of interest. It makes possible the integration of several fields of study in searching for the solution to a single problem. It provides valuable experience in the research process such as definition of the problem, search for relevant data, analysis of the data and drawing conclusions. Thus CIS allows for individual initiative, judgment and resourcefulness well beyond what is possible in the regular curriculum.
- The Comprehensive Project (CP) provides an opportunity to learn in a real world context. This provides a vehicle for integration of learning across functions and disciplines. The project must be organization-based, not based entirely on secondary data or library work. It must be multifunctional and multidisciplinary in nature.
Courses Offered
Compulsory Courses in the First Year (Tentative)
| Term 1 | ||
| No | Course Acronym | Course Title |
| 1 | FRA | Financial Reporting and Analysis |
| 2 | FM | Financial Markets |
| 3 | HRM-I | Human Resource Management-I |
| 4 | ID | Individual Dynamics |
| 5 | LAB | Legal Aspects of Business |
| 6 | MC | Managerial Computing |
| 7 | ME | Microeconomics |
| 8 | MKT-I | Marketing-I |
| 9 | OM-I | Operations Management-I |
| 10 | QM-1a | Quantitative Methods-IA |
| 11 | QM-1b | Quantitative Methods-IB |
| 12 | WAC | Written Analysis and Communication |
| 13 | OB Area | Induction |
| Term 2 | ||
| No | Course Acronym | Course Title |
| 1 | CCS | Costing and Control Systems |
| 2 | FM | Financial Markets |
| 3 | HRM-II | Human Resource Management II |
| 4 | IGP | Interpersonal Group and Processes |
| 5 | TBIT | Transforming Business through Information Technology |
| 6 | MEP | Macroeconomics and Policy |
| 7 | MKT-II | Marketing II |
| 8 | OM-II | Operations Management II |
| 9 | PCE | Personal and Corporate Ethics |
| 10 | QM-2 | Quantitative Methods-2 |
| 11 | SCEB | The Social and Cultural Environment of Business |
| 12 | WIP | Workshop on Interviews and Presentations |
| Term 3 | ||
| No | Course Acronym | Course Title |
| 1 | BES | Business, Environment and Sustainability |
| 2 | BRM | Business Research Methods |
| 3 | CF | Corporate Finance |
| 4 | GSP | Government Systems and Policy Process |
| 5 | IEB | Internet-Enabled Businesses |
| 6 | MAC | Managerial Analysis and Communication |
| 7 | MKT | Marketing III |
| 8 | ODY | Organizational Dynamics |
| 9 | SM | Strategic Management |
| Flexicore Courses (FC) | ||
| 10 | MOM | Manufacturing Operations Management |
| SOM | Service Operations Management | |
| 11 | SHRM | Strategic Human Resource Management |
| TCM | Talent and Competency Management | |
Courses Offered in the Second Year (Tentative)
List of Electives Courses in Second year (Area Wise) based on offerings in the past 5 years.
| No | Course Acronym | Course Name |
| Strategy | ||
| 1 | SC | Strategy Capstone (Core Course) |
| 2 | BNLL(A) | Business Negligence, Liability and Law-A |
| 3 | BNLL(B) | Business Negligence, Liability and Law-B |
| 4 | BT | Business Taxation |
| 5 | CCCS | Competence, Capability and Competitive Strategy |
| 6 | CPSF | Consulting and Professional Service Firms |
| 7 | LVMR(A) | Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Reality-A |
| 8 | LVMR(B) | Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Reality-B |
| 9 | BGL | Business Government and Law |
| 10 | BT | Business Taxation |
| 11 | ETA | Entrepreneurial Thought & Action |
| 12 | FBL | Frontiers of Business Law |
| 13 | IBDR | International Business Dispute Resolution |
| 14 | MYM | Mysteries in Management |
| 15 | RTNGB | Reimagining Telecom & Next Generation Businesses |
| 16 | SEM | Strategy in Emerging Markets |
| 17 | BT | Business Taxation |
| 18 | DSDT | Digital Strategy and Digital Transformation |
| 19 | LVMR | Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Reality |
| 20 | MCSIEC | Multinational Company Strategies and International Expansion Choices |
| Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship | ||
| 21 | NTADBM | New Technology Application, Design and Business Models |
| Centre for Management in Agriculture | ||
| 22 | SY | Shodh Yatra - Off Campus |
| 23 | CINE | CINE: Understanding Creativity, Innovation, Knowledge, Networks and Entrepreneurship |
| Communication | ||
| 24 | CCR(A) | Communicating Corporate Reputation-A |
| 25 | CCR(B) | Communicating Corporate Reputation-B |
| 26 | CST(A) | Communication Skills for Team & Leadership Effectiveness-A |
| 27 | CST(B) | Communication Skills for Team & Leadership Effectiveness-B |
| 28 | DC(A) | Difficult Communication-A |
| 29 | DC(B) | Difficult Communication-B |
| 30 | IC | Intercultural Communication |
| 31 | OC | Organizational Communication |
| 32 | PC | Persuasive Communication |
| 33 | SNS(A) | Strategic Negotiation Skills-A |
| 34 | SNS(B) | Strategic Negotiation Skills-B |
| 35 | EPETMC(A) | Media and Society: Economics, Politics, Ethics and Technologies for Mass Communication-A |
| 36 | EPETMC(B) | Media and Society: Economics, Politics, Ethics and Technologies for Mass Communication-B |
| 37 | MC(A) | Managerial Communication-A |
| 38 | MC(B) | Managerial Communication-B |
| 39 | SCDE(A) | Strategic Communication in the Digital Era-A |
| 40 | SCDE(B) | Strategic Communication in the Digital Era-B |
| Economics | ||
| 41 | EoO | Economics of Organization |
| 42 | GFT | Global Finance and Trade |
| 43 | GTA | Game Theory and Applications |
| 44 | MEM | Managerial Econometrics |
| 45 | MTP | Monetary Theory and Policy |
| 46 | HITCH | Hitchhiker's Guide to Business and Economies Across Five Centuries |
| 47 | IEST | Indian Economy and Society Today |
| 48 | REM | Real Estate Management |
| 49 | BEE(A) | Behavioral and Experimental Economics-A |
| 50 | BEE(B) | Behavioral and Experimental Economics-B |
| 51 | EDPG | Economic Development Policy and Growth |
| 52 | EFQ | Economics Of Food Quality |
| 53 | GRFS | Governance and Regulation in the Financial Sector |
| 54 | GTA(A) | Game Theory and Applications-A |
| 55 | GTA(B) | Game Theory and Applications-B |
| 56 | HITCH(A) | Hitchhiker's Guide to Business and Economies Across Five Centuries-A |
| 57 | HITCH(B) | Hitchhiker's Guide to Business and Economies Across Five Centuries-B |
| 58 | WEBGP | World Economy: Business, Government, and Policy |
| 59 | EoS | Economics of Strategy |
| 60 | EMBI | Economics and Management of Biopharmaceutical Industry |
| 61 | IPBD | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Big Data |
| Finance and Accounting | ||
| 62 | FIS | Fixed Income Securities |
| 63 | FORM | Futures, Options and Risk Management |
| 64 | FSA | Financial Statement Analysis |
| 65 | MIPM | Modern Investment & Portfolio Management |
| 66 | SPB | Strategic Perspectives in Banking |
| 67 | VoF | Valuation of Firms |
| 68 | AVI | Applied Value Investing |
| 69 | BB | Bitcoin and the Blockchain |
| 70 | CG | Corporate Governance |
| 71 | FoF | Financing of Firms |
| 72 | FSA | Financial Statement Analysis |
| 73 | MACR | Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Restructuring |
| 74 | MFM | Microfinance Management |
| 75 | QAT | Quantitative & Algorithmic Trading |
| 76 | SCF | Stochastic Calculus in Finance |
| 77 | VoF | Valuation of Firms |
| 78 | AI | Alternative Investments |
| 79 | BF | Behavioural Finance |
| 80 | BSGR | Black Swans and Gray Rhinos: Managing under Financial Crises |
| 81 | PTP | Principles of Transfer Pricing |
| 82 | UEPC | Unlisted Equities & Patient Capital |
| Human Resource Management | ||
| 83 | BS | Business and Society |
| 84 | GPP(A) | Games People Play: Psychology of HRM-A |
| 85 | GPP(B) | Games People Play: Psychology of HRM-B |
| 86 | PCIH | Personal Competencies for International HRM |
| 87 | HRMSS | Human Resource Management in Service Sector |
| 88 | MCEO | Making of a CEO |
| 89 | MHCP | Managing Human Capital in Projects |
| 90 | UBG | Understanding Bhagavad Gita: Managerial Perspective |
| Information Systems | ||
| 91 | DMBI | Data Mining and Business Intelligence |
| 92 | SIE | Strategies for Internet Economy |
| 93 | SMIS | Strategic Management of Information Systems |
| 94 | BDA | Big Data Analytics |
| 95 | DVDM | Data Visualization for Decision Making |
| 96 | BDA | Big Data Analytics |
| 97 | MSPE | Management of Software Projects and Enterprise |
| 98 | PPIDI | Public Policy for Inclusive Development of India |
| Marketing | ||
| 99 | B2B | Business to Business Marketing |
| 100 | DM | Digital Marketing |
| 101 | MCVD | Managing Customer Value Delivery |
| 102 | MME | Mobile Marketing Essentials |
| 103 | SBM | Strategic Brand Management |
| 104 | UNG | Understanding the New Gold: Digitalization, Fintech and Associated Technology, Regulation and Adoption |
| 105 | DBBD | Driving Better Business Decisions Through Superior Customer Insights and Sensemaking |
| 106 | INL | Innovation, Live |
| 107 | ML | Marketing Luxury |
| 108 | NCB | Neuroscience and Consumer Behaviour |
| 109 | MRB | Managing Retail Business |
| 110 | SMBC | Semiotics: Strategies for Media and Brand Communication |
| 111 | CBBS | Customer Based Business Strategies |
| 112 | CB | Consumer Behaviour |
| 113 | DMCDM | Descriptive Models of Consumer Decision Making |
| 114 | MMW | Marketing Management in the World of High Tech. and Innovation |
| 115 | MRIS (A) | Market Research and Information Systems-A |
| 116 | MRIS (B) | Market Research and Information Systems-B |
| 117 | PCG | Pricing |
| 118 | SM(C) | Strategic Marketing-C |
| 119 | SMM | Strategic Models in Marketing |
| Organizational Behaviour | ||
| 120 | CIW | Contemporary Indian Workplaces: Decent Work and Diversity |
| 121 | ERI(A) | Explorations in Role and Identity - Off Campus |
| 122 | CSW(A) | The Creative Self at Work-A |
| 123 | CSW(B) | The Creative Self at Work-B |
| 124 | ERI(B) | Explorations in Roles and Identity-B - Off Campus |
| 125 | ITES | Inner Theatre: An Encounter with Self |
| 126 | NS(A) | Negotiation Strategies-A |
| 127 | NS(B) | Negotiation Strategies-B |
| 128 | HPT | High Performing Teams: A Journey |
| Production and Quantitative Methods | ||
| 129 | AMDA | Advanced Methods of Data Analysis |
| 130 | EC(A) | Elephants and Cheetahs: Systems, Strategy and Bottlenecks-A |
| 131 | EC(B) | Elephants and Cheetahs: Systems, Strategy and Bottlenecks-B |
| 132 | MAOR | Managerial Applications of OR |
| 133 | OS | Operations Strategy |
| 134 | SCT | Supply Chain Thinking: Value Creation and Adaptation |
| 135 | UCR | Why Projects Fail? Uncertainty, Complexity and Risk in Projects |
| 136 | WwN | Working with Networks |
| 137 | AMMMD | Advanced Mathematical Modeling for Managerial Decisions |
| 138 | EC | Elephants and Cheetahs: Systems, Strategy and Bottlenecks |
| 139 | SCM | Supply Chain Management |
| 140 | SMDA | Statistical Methods in Data Analysis |
| 141 | ACD | The Art and Crafts of Decision Making |
| 142 | BA | Business Analytics |
| 143 | BMDA | Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis |
| 144 | CTC | Coordinating the Crowd |
| PGP (Others) | ||
| 145 | BIO | Bionics |
| 146 | PFM(A) | Philosophical Foundation of Management-A |
| 147 | PFM(B) | Philosophical Foundation of Management-B |
| 148 | DBI | Doing Business in India (Only for Exchange) |
| 149 | IHC | India: History and Culture (Only for Exchange) |
| 150 | CFI | Contemporary Film Industry: A Business Perspective |
| Public Systems Group | ||
| 151 | IDF | Infrastructure Development & Financing |
| 152 | QRMUBHDNS | Qualitative Research Methods for Understanding Business and Human Development in a Network Society |
| 153 | RTPM | Rail Transport Planning and Management |
| 154 | TSM | Transformational Social Movement |
| 155 | CaF | Carbon Finance |
| 156 | GGPLP | Good Governance & People Living in Poverty |
| 157 | IMUT | Innovations in Managing Urban Transport |
| 158 | ITS | Intelligent Transportation Systems (15 session + FV) |
| 159 | MMMkt | Manipulation, Myth-Making and Marketing |
| 160 | MVE | The Philosophical Underpinnings of Public Policy: Morals, Values, and Ethics |
| 161 | PP | Public Policy |
| 162 | PTfD | Participatory Theater for Development |
| 163 | SEISC | Social Entrepreneurship: Innovating Social Change |
| 164 | EBPD | Experiments for Business and Policy Decision-making |
| 165 | MEnB(A) | Managing Energy Businesses-A |
| 166 | MEnB(B) | Managing Energy Businesses-B |
| 167 | URBAN | Urban Economy and Business Environment |
| 168 | PPO | Power and Politics in Organization |
| 169 | ICSI | Investigating Corporate Social Irresponsibility |
| Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Education Innovation | ||
| 170 | SGCISE | Second Generation Challenges in Indian School Education |
| 171 | EIE | Enterprise and Innovation in Education |
