The Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) is a full-time, tri-institute residential program in business analytics offered jointly by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp). Naturally, the uniqueness of this program emanates from the amalgamation of business, statistics, and technology. The relevance of its curriculum is heightened in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), as the courses offer comprehensive training in data analytics, enabling students with data-driven leadership capabilities in the industry.
The program employs a rigorous, competitive selection process to maintain a high-quality cohort of serious learners, ensuring a well-balanced mix of experienced professionals and recent graduates, building strong batch profiles over the years. More importantly, unlike any other program, a six-month industry internship sets this program apart, ensuring participants are truly industry-ready. Thus, professionals graduating from this program possess critical thinking abilities to find data-driven solutions to business problems, employing appropriate tools from the field of data science. The significance of this unique tri-institute PGDBA program continues to grow as industrial transformations driven by AI have substantially increased the global demand for data scientists with managerial expertise.
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) is a full time, residential program in business analytics offered jointly by three esteemed institutes: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. Naturally, the uniqueness of this program emanates from the amalgamation of business, statistics, and technology. The program conducts an extremely competitive selection process and maintains a good mix of experienced and fresh graduates to build an impressive batch profile over the years. More importantly, unlike any other program, an industry internship of six months stands this program out from the rest of its cohort as it makes the participants completely industry ready. Thus, professionals graduated from this program possess the ability to think critically and find data driven solutions to management problems using appropriate tools from the field of data science. I am sure that this unique tr-institute PGDBA program will grow more and more in future to cater the increasing demand of data scientists, globally.
Prof. Abhipsa Pal
Chairperson, PGDBA