PGDM

PGDM Programme: (Two Years – Full Time)

MCC BTSBs Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme of study is approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, an apex regulatory body under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. The PGDM is a two years full-time programme, spread across six trimesters.

PGDM Programme & Its Highlights

Management education as it is positioned today in the country manifests itself in various forms ranging from general management to functional specializations that is integrated with exponential technologies. Training in such a broad canvas involves academic rigor, astute sensitivity to the contemporary events and the acumen of local relevance and global worth to transcend space and time barriers. All these call for continuous quality and meaningful inputs. In a situation where most business courses including ours is most sought after by clientele of diverse base, heterogeneity in terms of competency and the state of the art knowledge in subject is a formidable difficulty to reckon with. Our experiences of the past and the strategic understanding of the present particularly leveraging the following nine significant learning considerations formed the basis of our curriculum designing framework.

Bridge Course/ Pre-PGDM

The bridge course or Pre-PGDM is principally designed for students without pre-requisite coursework who are admitted to MCC BTSB. The main objective is that the students get the needed proficiency to pursue technology enabled management education. This is a non-credit course completed in an intensive modular format where the student is likely to lack in terms of prerequisites to pursue the full length management program. Here at MCC BTSB every student must get a basic working knowledge on MS-Excel and Introduction to Statistics.

Curriculum Design

  • The MCC BTSB, PGDM Programme nurtures divergent and holistic thinking, encourages creative ideas, and prepares the students to be future ready. It transforms a novice into a business leader. Feedback from our acclaimed advisory board, industry experts in the academic council, learned professors both in India and globally, are a few significant driving considerations that has driven us into the initiative of developing the state-of-the-art comprehensive curriculum to run a full-time two years, Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
  • The course work is spread across six trimesters over the two years and designed in such a way it fits into the Learning Outcome – Based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) which works towards a more holistic experience for the students, while focusing not just on a knowledge delivery in business education but also on the application of knowledge through field and lab work and emphasis on application of knowledge to real life experience and at the same time fulfil industry 5.0 requirements. This significantly, develop the ability of the students to synthesize a complex situation with a multidimensional approach.
  • MCC BTSB goes an extra mileage to train the students in a most sought after domain knowledge or skill set required to take on the corporate responsibilities at ease. At present, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Business Analytics, Logistics and Supply Chain Management are on the anvil.

Experiential Learning

MCC BTSB provides a platform to go through experiential learning through courses such as, Executive Communication, Social Immersion Programme, Summer Internship Programme, Liberal Arts, Foreign Languages in French, German and Korean help build character and an understanding of the real life scenario to face adversities and uncertainties and make them mobile across the globe.

Work – Integrated Learning

Work – Integrated Learning (WIL) is a curricular, experiential education that formally integrates a student’s academic studies with quality work experiences within a workplace or practice setting. It is an umbrella, that integrates theoretical knowledge with authentic practice in the workplace. WIL, enables students to work directly in an industry or organisation to develop competence and ability to apply knowledge and skills to gain real-world experience in preparation for a future career. At MCC BTSB a Work – Integrated Learning requires every student to register with an internship in a company of their choice. The Placement division will also extend its helping hand in securing Internships.

The Methodology

  • At MCC BTSB, right through the week, the students are expected to be attached with any industry or organization in the second-half i.e. Afternoons.
  • The students have to maintain a work diary on the work done or tasks assigned to them.
     They have to submit an email report on a weekly basis to the Head of Placements
  •  At the end of each trimester, a consolidated report need to be submitted to the Head Placements for review and record.

Executives in Residence

Industry collaboration is yet another feather in the cap of MCC BTSB. This initiative ensures free flow of Industry experts visiting the campus and interacting with the student on a continual basis which brings every student closer to reality and help accomplish their dream career.

Master Class

Leadership with values is the hall mark of MCC BTSB. True to its claim, we create a space for experiential and extensive learning environment beyond the boundaries of the campus. Industry captains engage this space through “Master Classes” which are designed in addition to the classroom concepts, that provides students a different horizon on Leadership dimensions in various sectors of business, technology and management. They dwell among other things on Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation, Creativity and Innovation, Strategy, Global Business, Technology and Ethics. These Master class sessions compliment the curriculum and are ably delivered through interactive discussions, case studies, success stories / lessons learnt, turnaround strategies to enhance learning and engagement.

BSMART App

MCC BTSB in collaboration with Business Standard magazine facilitate a state of the art Digital App viz, BSMART. BSMART is a platform designed to enhance education for success in the modern business landscape. With BSmart, you will experience significant time-to-market advantages with a cutting-edge, curated content, interactive case study competitions, quizzes, career resources and collaboration tools, all tailored to meet the needs of business students. The App’s analytical dashboard provides valuable insights for learning and improving student engagement seamlessly. The Case studies, developed exclusively by Business Standard, are contemporary and connect with Indian businesses. Apart from this, many other features like Quizzes, Business Jargon’s, Leadership Videos, Interview and Resume tips, Webinars etc., are inbuilt into the app BSMART.

Liberal Arts

Liberal arts courses are intended to prepare students to deal with the complexities of today’s modern world. Students who go through this liberal arts classes acquire a broad understanding of the world from a multidisciplinary dimension, that includes social and environmental sciences, society, culture, philosophy, psychology, public policy, theatre, drama, storytelling, and more. Students choose from the choice of subjects as part of their study and the same is offered in Trimesters IV to VI with 2 credits as general elective. These subjects help students in cross pollination of ideas and on how to create persuasive arguments, communicate effectively, solve issues and become confident in one’s life.

Foreign Languages

Foreign language study enhances listening skills and memory that help the student’s engagement effectively and responsibly in a multi-cultural world. MCC BTSB supports students the most sought after foreign languages such as French, German, Japanese and Korean to improve their career and business prospects, build deeper connections and become a global citizen. Each student will have the benefit of learning two foreign languages as this is a credit course spread across two trimesters.

Outbound Leadership Programme

At MCC BTSB we envision to impact lives and influence leadership transformation.  We facilitate teams and leaders through experiential approach to transform individual behaviours that can potentially make them into high-performance leaders. Students will be taken to such outbound training solution agencies which are led by facilitators who are incredibly passionate in equipping young minds.

MOOC/SWAYAM/NPTEL/ NSE KNOWLEDGE HUB etc.,

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology along with Indian Institute of Science to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning. This platform provides web and video courses in management discipline through an online portal for 4, 8, and 12 weeks’ online courses. Students have to compulsorily enrol for any one course (from the list approved by Office of Academic Affairs) during the I year of study and a two courses during their II year of study and submit the photocopy of the Certificates to the Office of Academic Affairs before December of the respective years. This is an extra credit course.

Social Immersion

This program connects the new generation students with the rural and under-privileged community and is planned to be executed in and around Chennai.  It is designed to expose the students to the realities, with an intention of sensitizing them to become a part of rural development through various activities. The entire activity culminates in submission of a report of their observations and analysis and making suitable recommendations that can prove to be helpful, not only at the rural administration level but also the district level.

The student should understand that, the community immersion process is a series of interrelated and intertwined phases which commences with the pre-immersion followed by visit to the NGO/the village concerned/ community interaction, needs assessment and developing a comprehensive report with supporting facts. This is in totality a qualitative approach where students, if warranted, live with people in the own homes for a day or two and gain insights through informal conversations, first-hand observations and experiences.

Summer Internship

In an industrially advanced countries of the world, there exists a long tradition of close partnership between academic institution and industry in promoting education and research. In our country, despite a growing awareness of the importance of forging linkages between institutions and industry, the interaction between them is still rather limited.  Although both sides realize that this gap needs to be bridged.  Therefore, a course like management must aim to provide the student greater exposure of actual industrial process. This internship programme aims at providing students of management an opportunity to compare the theoretical and conceptual understanding of basic management and functional areas of management with the real life situation in a corporate context. Hence this summer internship.

As a partial requirement for the completion of the course each student has to choose a company with the help of a faculty guide by the end of February.  Once the student is placed, a training protocol will be developed in consultation with the person responsible for training. They will work for 8-10 weeks during summer vacation.

The trainee is expected to explore the organization and its activities through observation, interaction, interviewing, focused group discussion and also by performing the tasks assigned by the company. Organization charts, manuals and handbooks can be used as learning sources. The student trainee would use the structural aspects of the organization, the managerial processes and the functional outcomes as framework for observation, analysis and reporting.

Thus, a student trainee will

  • Understand, organization structure, policies and procedures
  • Examine various managerial processes as observed in the real context of the organisation.
  • Compare and contrast functions of one or two departments such as Finance, Human Resources, Marketing and Production management ( preferably in the functional departments where the student intends to specialise in the second year).
  • Take up a real life challenge/ opportunity/pain point and find managerial solutions to the same

Each student must submit the report in the prescribed format and defend himself in the oral board of examination (Viva)

Thus, the PGDM Curriculum portrays the vision of MCC BTSB.

Credit Distribution Summary

A minimum of 128 credits is required to qualify for the PGDM.

Description
Credits
I Year of Study
Program Core
58
Elective Courses
06
Fieldwork/Internships (Social Immersion)
02
II Year of Study
Program Core
10
Elective Courses
46
Viva ( Business Ideas)
02
Fieldwork/ Internship
04
Total
128