POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (PGDBM)
Through upgradation of its earlier 2-Year Evening Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management (PGCGM) Offered since 1981, IIMC launched this 3-Year Part Time Evening Programme of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) in 1994 as one of its major initiatives.
The Institute's concern for conducting this Evening Programme in Business Management emerged from the appreciation of a responsibility to offer a quality management education to the young practicing and in-service executives of organizations. This also needs to be seen as the critical and continuing effort by IIMC to professionalize the junior and mid-level management within organizations, one of the major agenda of our time. Through this programme, IIMC facilitates a process through which the students integrate their real-life work experiences with the conceptual and analytical foundations and developments in management disciplines. The focus of this Programme is to inculcate among the students such perceptions, knowledge, skills and abilities as would enable them to become effective managers in the modern business - and to assume higher levels of managerial responsibilities.
ADMISSION ELIGIBILITY AND PROCEDURE
The minimum eligibility criteria for admission to PGDBM are
- at least a 3-Year Bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline recognized by the Association of Indian Universities/AICTE ;
- a minimum of 2 Years work experience after graduation at an Executive/Supervisory level, as on May 31 of the year of Admission;
- must be employed in a full time job at the time of Admission.
All applicants seeking admission to PGDBM must appear for the Common
Admission Test (CAT) conducted every year in November for admissions to all IIMs.
Applicants short-listed on the basis of their performance in CAT are called for personal interviews. The final selection for admission is made through a multi criteria assessment procedure based on :
- performance in the Common Admission Test (CAT)
- relevant academic records
- work experience, and
- aptitude, ability and interest to pursue management studies as revealed in personal interviews.
Normally, Admission offers to selected applicants are sent in the first week of May and the First Year Academic session usually commences around 2nd week of June every year.
PGDBM PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The 3-Year span of the PGDBM Programme is conducted through a total of ten Terms of twelve to fourteen weeks each. There are four Terms in First Year and three Terms each in the Second and Third Year respectively of the Programme.
Three courses are offered in each Term. Classes are normally of 3 hours duration held in the evenings between 6.00 and 9.00 PM with at least 3 classes per week per Term.
During the First Year (Terms I - IV ) and the Second Year (Terms V - VII) of the Programme, all the 21 courses offered and the project are compulsory. In the Third Year Programme (Terms VIII - X ) , packages of advanced courses in important functional areas of Management are offered in an elective framework that allows the students to concentrate in a chosen area. Selection of the functional area/s and the advanced course package of electives, however, may vary from year to year.
Sequence of Compulsory Courses : Terms I - VII
1st YEAR PGDBM
Term - I
- Mathematics for Management
- Principles of Economics
- Origination Behavior
Term - II
- Statistics for Management
- Economic Development
- Organization Structure & Administration
Term - III
- Operations Research
- Marketing Management
- Financial Cost Accounting
Term - IV
2ND YEAR PGDBM
- Production Management
- Marketing Research
- Data Processing
Term - V
- Financial Management
- Indian Social Structure
- Evolution of Indian Corporate Sector
Term - VI
- Human Resource Management
- Management Information System
- Strategic Management
Term - VII
- Development Management
- Indian Legal System
- Management Game
- A Project Work ( One course equivalent)
3rd YEAR PGDBM
In addition to the above compulsory courses, students are required to take 9 optional courses in any one or more of the following areas during Terms VIII - X :
1. Finance
2. Marketing
3. Management Information Systems
There is a continuing effort to widen the choice of electives in the 3rd Year PGDBM curriculum through the introduction of few more advanced courses in these as also other functional areas.
PEDAGOGY
Learning is a two-way process. In the PGDBM Programme, most courses require a high degree of participation when the students, practicing executives as they are, can relate their experiences with the classroom discussions and deliberations. Besides lectures, cases based on live problems, management games and the project work are important components of the pedagogic method. Also, in some courses, the students are encouraged to play a useful role in course design and development.
FACILITIES
LIBRARY FACILITIES
To provide the students an easier and regular access to required text books on the courses taught, relevant references and, other publications on management and development, a well-stocked Library with reading and lending facilities is available in the city annexe of the Institute. The students also have access to the resources in the main Library of the Institute located on its Joka campus.
COMPUTER FACILITIES
A small computer laboratory with facilities for internet access and other softwares is located in the city-center premises to provide the PGDBM students with specific course-related practices as also for documentation and analytical supports linked with assignments/ project works. In addition, the students have access to the much larger computer facilities available in the Institute’s campus through prior requisitions.
AWARD OF DIPLOMA
A student becomes eligible for the AWARD of the POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGESMENT of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta on the successful completion of the PGDBM Programme. The Diploma is normally awarded during the Annual Convocation of the Institute held in March every year.
PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATION
Within the overall institutional policy framework and operational guidelines, all matters pertaining to the PGDBM Programme administration and management including students’ affairs related to academic requirements and discipline are looked after by the PGDBM Committee from the Programme office at the city-center premises. The students can discuss their interests and problems with the PGDBM Committee Chairman and the members in the Programme office. On all routine matters the Programme office personnel provide help and guidance.
CONTACT ADDRESS
PGDBM PROGRAMME OFFICE
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA
CITY ANNEXE
HARRINGTON MANSION
FLAT NO. 22
8, HO CHI MINH SARANI
KOLKATA 700 071
Telephone : (91-033) 2282-4598
Fax : (91-033) 2282-1498
E-Mail : iimchm@cal3.vsnl.net.in
