Management Development Institute - [MDI]

MDIM’s PGPM is designed to nurture students and help them build and enhance their managerial competence. The meticulously structured programme will enable students to:

The PGPM curriculum has been designed to enrich student’s skills and abilities in order to enable them in applying management theories and concepts in live problems existing in business and industry. The programme enables students to identify and diagnose complex problems in management through hands on learning experiences. It includes gamut of pedagogy: lectures, case studies, seminars, assignments, live projects, group discussions, business games, outbound based experiential learning activities, educational excursions, role plays, simulation exercises, structured and unstructured group work, and field visits. Consistent with state-of-art technology, the programme integrates the use of computers (IT) in the learning process. The rigorous curriculum puts students at Achilles Hill by shooting deadlines, submissions and presentations. The students undertake several field based projects so that they can get better insights into real life situation. These all will inevitably assist students to achieve high standards of excellence.

The PGPM course curriculum is spread across six terms each having duration of three months for its completion. The core (compulsory) courses are covered in four terms, with the bulk covered in the first three terms. These core courses will enhance the ability to communicate, analyze situations and make decisions by adopting quantitative and qualitative techniques. It even helps them to develop a holistic view of the different functional areas and the business environment. During this period, it is mandatory to opt for courses in general management and major functional areas, such as finance and accounting, marketing, operations management, information technology management, organizational behavior, human resource and strategic management. They get exposure to the basic disciplines of economics, behavioral sciences, managerial communication, business law, quantitative methods and decision sciences

At the end of the first three terms, students are supposed to undertake an industry internship or summer training by associating with an organization. The internship usually spans over a period of six to eight weeks. This is a compulsory component of the curriculum for the completion of the academic requirements. It is designed to provide exposure to organizational work setting, develop an understanding of business realities, learn how to apply theory in real life business situations and find its relevance.

In the second year, the student opts for elective/ optional courses to specialize in a maximum of two functional areas. These areas of specialization may delve with any of the following:

The evaluation system for the PGPM has been designed to achieve the following:

MDIM follows a system of continuous evaluation. Throughout the term, students have to appear various tests on their ability to understand concepts, learn techniques and apply them to problems in the real life situation relevant to corporate. At each stage of the course through continuous feedback, the students would be in a position to gauge their performance and take remedial measures in order to make improvements. In each course, a student will be thus awarded a grade sheet only. The weighted average of all courses taken by a student in the programme will give the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).

On successful completion of the programme requirements, a student will be awarded a Post-Graduate Programme in Management, PGPM, which has the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education, Government of India.