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IIMB to launch course for middle-level executives

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Bangalore: The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) will launch a one-year, full-time, postgraduate programme (PGP) in management from April 2009. With the introduction of the course, IIMB joins IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta, which already have a one-year PGP course.

Speaking to presspersons about the course were Malay Bhattacharya, chairperson of the course and Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIMB, who described it as being “different from the one-year courses that already exist in the country”. The course attempts to provide interdisciplinary education for those who have a minimum of five years of work experience and an average of seven or eight years of work experience in different fields.

“While the existing two-year PGP gives students function-oriented education, this programme is for middle-level management executives, who need to tackle issues from multiple perspectives,” said Mr. Chandra.

What is unique about the programme is that it requires students to submit a multidisciplinary project at the end of the course. Also, 15 to 20 seminars will be held through its tenure in the fields of science, history and philosophy to name a few, which is not a requirement in other one-year programmes.

“The course has come about after four to five months of initiative and is a result of an extensive strategic visioning process,” he said.

The course also aims at having a 30 per cent student body of international students from the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries and Africa among others. “Eventually, we will aim for half the students to come from other countries,” said Mr. Bhattacharya. The process of admission will require applicants to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and not the Common Admission Test (CAT), and a comprehensive interview, wherein the quality of work experience will be assessed.

The course, with its “market-driven” fee, will bring together achievers from all fields, and 50 per cent of the content will focus on emerging economies, along with offering students electives.

Brochures

The brochures will be available from September this year.

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