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Director’s
Prof. Virendra Kumar Tewari
Director, IIT Kharagpur
4 VGSoM Admission Brochure 2022-2024
Message
Since its inception as the first School of Management
within the IIT system, Vinod Gupta School of Management
(VGSoM ) aims to mentor social cognizant leaders,
entrepreneurs and managers who contribute to upscale
the skill of creation in world ergonomics. By the generous
support of distinguished alumnus, an entrepreneur and
philanthropist, a PhD Honoris Causa and life time fellow
of IIT Kharagpur Mr. Vinod Gupta whose words are ‘Learn,
Earn & Return’, this management school incubates brilliant
minds as outstanding industry-ready management
professionals, seeding the backbone of national economy.
The students here are exposed not only to management-
prone contemporary participant-centric pedagogies
but also trained in multidisciplinary attributes that are
characterized by prominence of globalisation, dynamism,
complexity and innovativeness. For a heritage that dates
back to 1993, the curriculum of VGSoM are modernized
and designed to accord with the latest industry trends
especially in technology-driven and knowledge based
industries encouraging a unique need-based scholarship
to its students with the sole aim to ensure access or
deserving students to world class management training.
Well-designed education and training programmes with
full-time MBA, Executive MBA for industry professionals
along with training programmes and a unique educational
programme in collaboration with ISI Kolkata and IIM
Calcutta, called the Post-Graduate Diploma in Business
Analytics (PGDBA) with veteran faculties adhering
industry experience from various fields of management,
technology, sciences, artificial intelligence, data analytics,
law and social sciences. I am certain that the latest
industry convergence will boost the transparency of
industry operations for the students of VGSoN who will
imbibe this holistic experience to establish themselves as
global leaders. Welcome friends, welcome to VGSoM!