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Course Details

MODE

Full time

DURATION

60 Months

The Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai, admits professionally employed persons as Executive Ph.D. Scholars without any financial assistance. The programme encompasses various facets of contemporary Industrial, Business, and Social Issues in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Analytics and Data Science, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics & Strategy, and Sustainability Management.

A Scholar in this category is a professionally employed person, who pursues the doctoral Programme while continuing the duties of his/her service. The Institute does not provide any assistantship/fellowship to such a Scholar. The research work leading to doctoral degree may be carried out largely in the parent organization under the overall guidance provided by a faculty member of the Institute.

a) Officer/ Executive level employees of All India Services/ Central Government (Ministry of Defence, and all other Ministries and Departments)/ State Governments /Public Sector Undertakings/ Autonomous Bodies;

b) Individuals with rich Managerial experience from reputed Private Organizations.

Such Organizations shall be listed in the premier Stock Exchanges and shall have an annual turnover of at least 200 crore rupees.
There would be no residential requirements for such candidates. However, the candidate has to spend at least one week per semester at IIM MUMBAI, interacting with his supervisor(s). During this period, Scholars may avail hostel facilities if available on an actual payment basis.
Candidates should preferably have demonstrated research potential through research papers in reputed International Conferences/ Journals/ Patents/ Technology transfer.

Eligibility Criteria

A 1-year/2-semester Master's degree programme (Full Time) with at least 60% marks in aggregate after a 4 year/8-semester Bachelor's degree programme (Full Time) or a 2-year/4-semester Master's degree programme (Full Time) with at least 60% marks after a 3-year Bachelor's degree programme (Full Time), or its equivalent grade wherever grading system is followed. Candidates applying based on Master's degree programme should have at least 2 years of professional experience after master's degree.

A candidate seeking admission after a 4-year/8-semester Bachelor's degree programme (Full Time) should have a minimum of 75% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade on point scale wherever the grading system is followed. Candidates applying based on Bachelor's degree programme should have a minimum of 4 years of professional experience after Bachelor's degree.

Reservation Policy will be followed as per Government of India rules.

The upper age limit is 45 years. For exceptionally brilliant Executive Executive Ph.D. candidates the age limit can be relaxed to 55 years. Candidates should preferably have demonstrated research potential through research papers in reputed International Conferences/ Journals/ Patents/ Technology transfer.

Candidates who meet the above requirements should look out for prospective faculty member(s) from IIM MUMBAI in the area where he/she is interested to apply for his/her Doctoral Programme. A research proposal approved by the prospective Faculty Guide(s) shall be submitted by the candidate at the time of the application.

Note: In case a candidate is awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks, the equivalence would be based on the equivalence certified by the institution/ university from where they have obtained the bachelor's degree. In case the institution/university does not have any scheme for converting the CGPA into equivalent marks (or percentages), the equivalence would be established by 1/M Mumbai by dividing the obtained CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the result by 100.