Crescent School of Business, Chennai

About College:

The Crescent School of Business in Chennai is a new institution, but its roots go back much further. It has an urban campus at the heart of the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It comes under the banner of the BS Abdur Rahman University, to which its courses are also affiliated. It has now been renamed as the BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (BSACIST), established in 1984. The full- fledged university status was achieved in the year 2009. The college is named after Shri B.S. Abdur Rahman, who was a noted Tamilian businessman and philanthropist. 

As the other courses are run by the other group colleges, so the Crescent School of Business has a single- programme focus towards management education. Towards this, it runs the UGC (University Grants Commission) approved PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management). Admissions to this programme is via the usual nationally or state- wise accepted entrance exams such as CAT, CMAT, MAT and TANCET. The concept of Professional Mentorship is one that has been successfully adopted here. Students get attached to industry experts within their career areas for personalized sessions. The Chennai location helps, as the city is a magnet for global and top national corporates. 

Research is another key area at the Crescent School of Business in Chennai. A lot of this research that takes place on campus also get published on the journals and newsletters originating from here. There are state-of-the-art research facilities on campus across departments. A research bulleting also gets released from the BSACIST. Regular seminars and workshops have also been held on campus. Some of the key areas for such workshops being hosted include- innovative & quality research, writing techniques for international collaboration project proposals, user awareness using Turnitin, student research, mobile resume website creation, Indus valley inscriptions and others as well. 

MoUs have been etched with several research partners all over the country and even outside. Malaysia, UK and USA are three countries with whose bodies such international collaborations have taken place. The US bodies include the Columbia University, Altera Corporation and the Purdue University. From the UK, it is the Cambridge University and from Malaysia, the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Domestic partners include SISI, CLRI, IGCAR, Cisco, Wipro, IP Rings, IBM India, Frontier Lifeline, Arudra Engineers, Novell, CIPET, Garuda Vaayu Shakti, MSME Development Institute, Oracle India, ACCEL, Sun Micro Systems, SRF and LAMCO Lighting among others. Foreign universities with whom academic collaboration exists are the likes of Missouri State University, Oakland University and the University of Central Florida from USA and the Curtin University and University of Queensland from Australia. 

Another area of much importance to the institute is entrepreneurship. This is why the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) has been an active forum here. It helps develop the budding entrepreneurs among the students for the institute. Experienced trainers and entrepreneurs are invited to campus to deliver guest lectures and interact with those who have such business models. For this, an industry- institute partnership has also been forged. This helps in fast tracking the campus placement opportunities as well. There is also a thriving student life here on campus. The college is extremely proactive on social media, with handles on all major platforms. It also releases a periodic newsletter from campus known as The Heritage. 

The campus has much to offer. There are hostel facilities for both boys and girls. Banking facilities with ATM are available in the campus’s vicinity. There is a sports field where cricket and football may be played. Facilities are also there for indoor sports. The gymnasium may also be used by all. A large auditorium is there to facilitate major events, at both intra and inter college level. The campus is Wi- Fi enabled. Science laboratories have the latest of equipment. A health centre is also there to cater to medical emergencies. Hygienic food is prepared at the college cafeteria. The college even has its own transport to ferry students to and from the campus. A convenience store is also located within campus. The library here is one of the best stocked within the region. Besides the physical books on display, it also provides digital access to en number of international academic journals for research and academic purposes.

The college has also leveraged on its rich alumni list, from the mother group of institutions. Regular industry interaction sessions are held with alumni, as well as other external industry experts. All this and much more has led to favourable placement figures to start with. Some of the key recruiters in recent seasons have been the likes of- Mphasis, CBRE, Kellogg’s, Jubilant Food works, Goldman Sachs, ZS, Adobe, Bosch, TCS, Café Coffee Day, Microsoft, Ashok Leyland, Cognizant, ZOHO, TVS, HCL, Infosys, Renault Nissan, Disha, Jaro Education and The Hindu amongst others of the ilk.