PGDM

Management Development Institute, Murshidabad (Also known as: MDI Murshidabad)

The PGDM curriculum has been designed to enrich student’s skills and abilities in order to enable them in applying management theories and concepts in live problems existing in business and industry. The programme enables students to identify and diagnose complex problems in management through hands on learning experiences. It includes gamut of pedagogy: lectures, case studies, seminars, assignments, live projects, group discussions, business games, outbound based experiential learning activities, educational excursions, role plays, simulation exercises, structured and unstructured group work, and field visits. Consistent with state-of-art technology, the programme integrates the use of computers (IT) in the learning process. The students undertake several field based projects so that they can get better insights into real life situation. These all will inevitably assist students to achieve high standards of excellence.

Core Courses - The PGDM course curriculum is spread across six terms each having duration of three months for its completion. The core (compulsory) courses are covered in four terms, with the bulk covered in the first three terms. These core courses will enhance the ability to communicate, analyze situations and make decisions by adopting quantitative and qualitative techniques. It helps students to develop a holistic view of the different functional areas and the business environment. During this period, it is mandatory to opt for courses in general management and major functional areas, such as finance and accounting, marketing, operations management, information technology management, organizational behavior, human resource and strategic management. They get exposure to the basic disciplines of economics, managerial communication, business law, quantitative methods and decision sciences.

Specializations

In the second year, the student opts for elective/ optional courses to specialize in a maximum of two functional areas. These areas of specialization may delve with any of the following:

• Financial Management
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Management
• Supply Chain Management
• All elective packages, however, may not be offered, as this would be determined by the number of students showing interest in the aforementioned areas of specialization. Details about the electives are made available to students when they join MDIM. To specialize in an area, a student must opt for a minimum of five elective courses offered in that area that assigns a weightage of 15 credits and three each for a course. Students will be allowed to opt in a range of 14 to 17 electives. However, CGPA of students would be decided based on the best scored 14 electives out of the total electives which a student has opted for.
• The Institute has envisaged new electives in line with latest demands of the corporate like Econometrics and many more expected to be floated in the forthcoming academic session which will preferably entice corporate houses to hire the talent.