In India, a
large number of PGDBM students are graduates straight from degree colleges. The
situation poses a great challenge to Business schools to prepare students to be capable of
handling a wide variety of management tasks in the organizations.
VJIM's new PGDBM programme has been
designed precisely to handle this situation.
The programme,
while conforming to AICTE norms and guidelines, seeks to prepare a well rounded graduate
with strong grounding in general Management perspective. It allows for
specialization in two management areas. Further flexibility is provided for a
student to complete his own profile through free option courses of his choice.
Two powerful
yet invisible parts of the VJIM program are the PDP (Personal Development Programmed and
CDP (Case study, project and Dissertation). These innovative and fully interactive
schemes are the common threads running throughout the four semesters as outlines below -
A well
designed PDP, coupled with time tested mentoring practice, aims at helping each student to
take up a SWOT analysis and formulate his / her own career goals under guidance from
mentor faculty. The plan aids the student in periodic review of his / her own
progress, make mid-course corrections as and when needed and put the thrust in appropriate
areas to succeed in his / her goals.
The rigorous
programme of studies is supplemented by a combination of the case-study, projects,
dissertation (CPD) trio as detailed below -
Prepared
case-studies which bring to the classroom, real-time situations occurring in the
industry. These situations are discussed at length to bring home the causative
factors and possible remedies.
On-Course
project assignments, where students visit industry, analyze and report on specific
management activities. On an average, every VJIM student handles sixteen to twenty
such assignments during the program.
An year long
Dissertation work (with five credit points) enable the students to develop the 'self
learning' attitude with necessary analytical and articulation skills.
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