IIPM 2-year full time Programme (leading to the award of the MBA degree from IMI)

IIPM 2-year full time Programme in National Economic Planning and Entrepreneurship
(leading to the award of the MBA degree from IMI)

 
This is the renowned two year full time Master’s residential program that leads to the award of the MBA degree from the International Management Institute, Belgium, one of the Europe’s leading business schools. Offered currently at the Asian (New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad & Hyderabad) campuses of IIPM, students have the option of transferring their credits to IMI Belgium and continuing their studies there. Students study core subjects in the first year related to various areas like National Economic Planning, Marketing, Personnel & Industrial Relations, Finance & Accounting, Production, Quantitative Techniques, IT Systems and various other term papers.
  
      
In the second year, students have to undertake compulsory specializations related to Marketing & IT. Apart from these two compulsory specializations, students have a choice of taking up an additional specialization, namely Finance or Human Resources. Students in the second year also study advanced core papers like Business Policy & Strategic Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Marketing etc. Students have to submit a thesis dissertation at the end of the program. Interestingly, this IIPM program has been rated as covering at least 33% more credits than any other MBA course in the world. Visit the links on Faculty to view the intellectual strength behind the Full time Programme in National Economic Planning and Entrepreneurship courses and the subjects covered. Students join the best companies in the world after passing out from this course.

Programme Structure

Post Graduate Programme (PGP) / Master of Business Administration (MBA)

FIRST TRIMESTER                                                            36 CREDITS

1          Marketing Management                                                                   
2          Business Law                                                                           
3          Comparative Economic Systems and Development                   
4          System Essentials                                                                    
5          Executive Communication                                                        
6          Quantitative Techniques                                                         
7          Management Accounting                                                          
8          Organization Behavior                                                            
9          Marketing Research                                                                 
10         Micro Economics                                                                 
11         Basic Personnel Management                                                  
12         Case Studies                                                                           

STRUCTURE
Three sessions per day, six days per week.
Executive Communication and System Essentials would be swapped, which would mean the section would be dissected in two halves, so when the first half is taking their communication session the other half would be taking their system essential’s session and vice versa after ninety minutes.

PEDAGOGY
Emphasis is on application based learning

SECOND TRIMESTER                                                        40 CREDITS

1          Basic Industrial Relation                                                           
2          Consumer Behavior                                                                
3          Industrial law                                                                            
4          Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Development      
5          Basic Financial Management                                                     
6          Operational Research-I                                                             
7          Operational Research-II                                                                       
8          Advertising                                                                            
9          Sales Management                                                                  
10         Web Development and Resource Management                        
11         Company law                                                                         
12         Customer Relationship Management                                        
13         Management Information System                                               
14         Knowledge Management                                                          
15         Business Economics                                                                
16         Executive Communication                                                       
18         National Economic Planning (I)                                                 
19         National Economic Planning (II)                                                 
20         Welfare Economics                                                                 

THIRD TRIMESTER (PROJECTS)                                     12 CREDITS

1          Sales Management                                                                  
2          Financial Management
3          Industrial Relations
4          Advertising Management
5          OB and HRD

STRUCTURE
A group comprising of 4 to 5 students depending on the class size has to undertake three projects under the guidance of a faculty member. The duration of the project trimester is for 6 weeks. The first week is scheduled for orientation and the last week is scheduled for the final viva. The final evaluation can be based on
Oral viva/ presentation,                          30%
Project submission,                               30%
Project participation / sincerity etc.         40%

Each and every project would carry a weightage of 4 credits.

Students failing to clear the project trimester have to necessarily undergo a research project under IIPM Research under the guidance of an internal faculty after the end of their term (fifth trimester) 

PEDAGOGY
After the orientation session, students have to associate themselves with organizations for a real time analysis of the project. The group effectively gets four weeks to conclude the projects.

 

SUMMER TRAINING                                                          10 CREDITS

The summer training starts the moment the project trimester ends. The training period is anywhere between 45 to 60 days. It is mandatory for every student to submit a copy of the training in a hard bound format along with a soft copy to the Career Management Cell at every node. The CMC would be responsible for collection, evaluation and archiving of these projects.The projects should also carry the copy of letter of intent and the project completion letter from the respective organizations in original. Without these copies the summer training stands void and nullified. All the projects have to be submitted within one month of joining the fourth trimester. Any delays beyond this would not be entertained at all.  

FOURTH TRIMESTER                                                       40 CREDITS

COMMON                                                                          24 CREDITS
1          Organization Development                                                        
2          Strategic Marketing                                                                   
3          Power Business Strategies                                                      
4          Production Management                                                         
5          International Marketing and Research                                        
6          Brand Management                                                              
7          Services Marketing                                                                
8          Macro Economics                                                                   
9          Distribution Management                                                         
10         Executive Communication                                                         
11         Advanced System Management                                                       

FINANCE ELECTIVE                                                         16 CREDITS

1          Forex Management                                                                 
2          Management of financial services                                              
3          Indian Financial System                                                                
4          Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management                         
5          Advanced Accounting                                                              
6          News Paper reading                                                              
7          Corporate Taxation                                                                 

HR ELECTIVE                                                                   16 CREDITS

1          News Paper reading                                                                
2          Advanced Personal Management                                             
3          Group Dynamics                                                                      
4          Management of Training Programs                                           
5          Performance Appraisal & Management                                      

FIFTH TRIMESTER                                                            40 CREDITS

COMMON                                                                          24 CREDITS
1          Rural Marketing                                                                        
2          Global Economic Environment of Business                               
3          Corporate Ethics & CSR                                                          
4          Research Methodology                                                                     
5          India’s Foreign Trade                                                                
6          Export Procedures and Documentation                                     
7          Entrepreneurship                                                                      
8          Social Marketing                                                                    
9          Total Quality Management                                                        
10         E-commerce and Security                                                        

FINANCE ELECTIVE                                                        16 CREDITS
1          Project Appraisal                                                                      
2          Derivatives                                                                               
3          Insurance and Banking                                                             
4          Multinational Business Finance                                                 
5          Mergers & Acquisitions                                                                     
6          Applied Finance                                                                     

HR-ELECTIVE                                                                   16 CREDITS
1          Cross-Cultural Management                                                  
2          Compensation Management                                                   
3          Strategic Human Resource Management                                  
4          Work Psychology                                                                    
5          Manpower Planning