Curriculum for MBM
 | The MBM curriculum provides all the necessary conceptual, skill and attitude development inputs mostly during the first year and partly during the second year, while at the same allowing considerable flexibility to tailor a major part of the learning process towards individual goals through a combination of electives and projects. |
| The curriculum seeks to develop in the students an understanding of the complexities and strategic issues in managing international business as also help them acquire cross-cultural management skills as part of the compulsory package. |
| Courses geared towards building an entrepreneurial orientation and leadership capabilities are an integral part of the core during the second year. |
| For those who are interested in developing their expertise in a particular area through an in-depth project, the curriculum provides such an opportunity during the third semester. Students can work on a company based project for about four months. This can also be combined with the summer internship of two months duration thus allowing the student to address a real life managerial problem in a very intensive and comprehensive manner. |
| Reduction in formal classroom teaching to enable students to devote time for prior and post class discussion and reflections and to participate in various extra-curricular activities to develop team spirit and leadership capabilities. Students are encouraged to organize various activities in collaboration with industry like symposia, panel discussions, business plan competition through the Corporate Interaction Cell. |
Duration : 2 years (4 semesters)
Total credits required to earn MBM degree : 89 to 93 credits
Core Curriculum : Semester - I, II and IV : 59 credits
Compulsory Courses in Production & Operations, Marketing, Accounting & Finance, Systems, HRM & Industrial Relations, Quantitative Analysis, Economics and Organizational Behaviour, Strategic Management; in written and oral business communication and a foreign language; and in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Technology Management
Total credits required to earn MBM degree : 89 to 93 credits
Core Curriculum : Semester - I, II and IV : 59 credits
Compulsory Courses in Production & Operations, Marketing, Accounting & Finance, Systems, HRM & Industrial Relations, Quantitative Analysis, Economics and Organizational Behaviour, Strategic Management; in written and oral business communication and a foreign language; and in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Technology Management
Quantitative Methods for Management
Production and Operations Management
Economics for Management -1 (Microeconomics)
Individual and Group Behaviour in Organizations
Marketing Management
Managerial Accounting & Control
Financial Management
Organizational Structure and Dynamics
Software Laboratory
Oral Business Communication
Information Technology and Management Information System
Management of International Business
Marketing of Industrial and High Tech Products
Statistical Methods for Management
Strategic Management
Management of Human Resources and Industrial Relations
MIS Laboratory
Written Business Communication
Business German or Business French or Business Japanese
Economics for Management- 2 (Macroeconomics)
Business Value and Ethics
Creating and Managing New Ventures
Strategic & Operational Management of Technology
Leadership
Legal Aspects of Business
List of electives
Summer Internship : 3 credits
Summer internship is a valuable learning experience for the student. It also offers recruiters the opportunity to assess the fit between the internee and the organization before final placement. All MBM students are required to complete summer internship of 10 weeks in the summer break between the second and the third semesters. Those students having prior work experience in industry for at least 2 years may choose to work in a focused area to deepen their expertise with a specialist faculty member of the School during the summer.
Semester III Choices: Elective Courses; Field Application Course ; Dissertation Project : 27 to 31 credits
Students can either do a Dissertation Project (17 credits) during Semester - III Or a combination of electives (13 credits minimum) and one Field Application Course (4 credits). During Semester - IV they would be required to take a few elective courses along with five compulsory courses. The elective courses would have a minimum weightage of 10 credits and a maximum of 12 credits. Students would be required to take the elective courses in different functional areas subject to the total credits from elective courses in Semesters - III and IV in any particular area not exceeding 12.
The elective courses can be taken from amongst those offered by VGSOM and other departments of the Institute, namely, Industrial Engg. & Management, Humanities & Social Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
The objective of the Dissertation Project is to provide students choosing this option an opportunity to learn in a real-world context and enable them to integrate learning across functions and disciplines by working on a project of interest to an organization. It offers recruiters the opportunity to assess at length the fit between the internee and the organization before final placement.
The dissertation project can be undertaken only in Semester-III. Students opting for the dissertation project would not be required to study any other subject(s) during the semester. The dissertation project can be undertaken in the same organization as the Summer Internship.
During Semester-III, students have the option of either doing a Dissertation Project or a combination of electives and 1 Field Application Course (FAC). The object of the FAC is to give the student an opportunity to apply the tools, techniques, skills and concepts she/he may have already learnt, to the study of actual problems through field studies, computer based analysis and library research.
The FAC can be an opportunity to explore a topic in-depth in an area of special interest to a student. It facilitates the integration of several disciplines and functional areas in searching for the solution to a single managerial problem. It provides valuable experience in the definition of a problem, in the search for relevant data, in the analysis of the data and in deriving inferences, conclusions and managerial implications. The FAC can be done by a student individually or in a team having not more than 2 members.
Summer Internship : 3 credits
Summer internship is a valuable learning experience for the student. It also offers recruiters the opportunity to assess the fit between the internee and the organization before final placement. All MBM students are required to complete summer internship of 10 weeks in the summer break between the second and the third semesters. Those students having prior work experience in industry for at least 2 years may choose to work in a focused area to deepen their expertise with a specialist faculty member of the School during the summer.
Semester III Choices: Elective Courses; Field Application Course ; Dissertation Project : 27 to 31 credits
Students can either do a Dissertation Project (17 credits) during Semester - III Or a combination of electives (13 credits minimum) and one Field Application Course (4 credits). During Semester - IV they would be required to take a few elective courses along with five compulsory courses. The elective courses would have a minimum weightage of 10 credits and a maximum of 12 credits. Students would be required to take the elective courses in different functional areas subject to the total credits from elective courses in Semesters - III and IV in any particular area not exceeding 12.
The elective courses can be taken from amongst those offered by VGSOM and other departments of the Institute, namely, Industrial Engg. & Management, Humanities & Social Sciences, Computer Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
The objective of the Dissertation Project is to provide students choosing this option an opportunity to learn in a real-world context and enable them to integrate learning across functions and disciplines by working on a project of interest to an organization. It offers recruiters the opportunity to assess at length the fit between the internee and the organization before final placement.
The dissertation project can be undertaken only in Semester-III. Students opting for the dissertation project would not be required to study any other subject(s) during the semester. The dissertation project can be undertaken in the same organization as the Summer Internship.
During Semester-III, students have the option of either doing a Dissertation Project or a combination of electives and 1 Field Application Course (FAC). The object of the FAC is to give the student an opportunity to apply the tools, techniques, skills and concepts she/he may have already learnt, to the study of actual problems through field studies, computer based analysis and library research.
The FAC can be an opportunity to explore a topic in-depth in an area of special interest to a student. It facilitates the integration of several disciplines and functional areas in searching for the solution to a single managerial problem. It provides valuable experience in the definition of a problem, in the search for relevant data, in the analysis of the data and in deriving inferences, conclusions and managerial implications. The FAC can be done by a student individually or in a team having not more than 2 members.