MBA (Masters in Business Administration), the flagship programme of Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), IIT Kharagpur is a two year residential programme at the end of which, the students get placed with reputed companies and organizations in managerial roles. Some of them also start their own enterprise or nurture a dream of becoming an entrepreneur in the future. They are products of this Institute who are expected to bring about new perspective, knowledge of recent developments and trends, add value and contribute to the long term goals and vision of the organization they join, or in their own personal initiatives as entrepreneurs. The environment of business is rapidly changing all over the world, with unprecedented and unforeseen changes in economy, geopolitics, technology and innovation. Hence training future managers to better fit into the needs of businesses as well as to carve a niche for themselves in their chosen domain, the MBA programme needs to be comprehensive in breadth while imparting them rigour of knowledge and understanding in cutting edge of developments in their chosen domains.
VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur also offers Micro specialization in Business Analytics along with regular MBA program that enable students to meet the industry requirements especially in analytical field.
This micro specialization will have limited seats and can be chosen subject to a minimum set of criteria.To know more about it-Click Here
| Credit Requirements for MBA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semester | Curriculum | |||
| Core | Electives | Project | Total credit | |
| First Semester | 12 | None | None | 23 |
| Second Semester | 11 | 1 | Project | 22 |
| Third Semester | 3 | 7 | GPEI, SIP | 26 |
| Fourth Semester | 2 | 6 | AMRP, VIVA | 20 |
| Total Credits | 91 | |||
| 23 Credits (12 courses, All Core) | |
|---|---|
| No. | Subjects |
| 1. | Financial Accounting & Reporting |
| 2. | Cost & Management Accounting |
| 3. | Statistical Methods for Management |
| 4. | Management Information Systems |
| 5. | Production & Operations Management |
| 6. | Quantitative Techniques I |
| 7. | Marketing Management I |
| 8. | Business Analytics |
| 9. | Organizational Behaviour |
| 10. | Spreadsheet Modelling and Programming for Business |
| 11. | Micro economics for Managers |
| 12. | Managerial Communication |
| 22 Credits (11 Core Courses and 1 Elective) | |
|---|---|
| No. | Subjects |
| 1. | Corporate Finance |
| 2. | Supply Chain Management |
| 3. | Business Econometrics |
| 4. | Marketing Management II |
| 5. | Marketing Research |
| 6. | Human Resource Management |
| 7. | Macro Economics for Managers |
| 8. | Strategic Management |
| 9. | Learning Business Outside classroom (Project) |
| 10. | Business Law for Managers |
| 11. | Business Simulation Game |
| Electives (1 elective to be taken) | |
| 1. | ERP |
| 2. | Digital Marketing |
| 3. | Financial Markets and Institutions |
| 4. | Human Resource Measurement and Decisions |
| 5. | Service Operations Management |
| 6. | Advanced Business Analytics |
| 26 Credits (1 Summer internship, 1 Group project, 3 Core courses and 7 Electives) | |
|---|---|
| No. | Subjects | 1. | Business Government and International Economic Environment |
| 2. | Organizational Design, Change and Transformation |
| 3. | Summer Internship Project |
| 4. | Group project in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (GPEI) |
| 5. | Business Ethics and Corporate Governance |
| Note: All Elective courses given in Table A (below) | |
| 20 Credits (2 Core and 6 Electives) | |
|---|---|
| No. | Subjects |
| 1. | AMRP |
| 2. | Comprehensive Viva |
| Note: All Elective courses given in Table A (below) | |
| No. | Area | Subject Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | BAIS | Software Project Management |
| 2. | BAIS | Information Security & Risk Management |
| 3. | ECOS | International Management |
| 4. | FINA | Derivatives & Risk Management |
| 5. | FINA | Commercial Banking |
| 6. | FINA | Mergers, Acquisition & Corporate Restructuring |
| 7. | FINA | Fixed Income Markets & Securities |
| 8. | MARK | Consumer Behaviour |
| 9. | MARK | Sales and Distribution Management |
| 10. | MARK | B2B Marketing |
| 11. | MARK | Marketing Strategy |
| 12. | MARK | Retail Marketing |
| 13. | PROM | Supply Chain Analytics |
| 14. | PROM | Purchasing & Outsourcing |
| 15. | PROM | Product Analytics |
| 16. | PROM | Manufacturing strategy |
| 17. | PROM | Project Management |
| 18. | OBHR | Organizational Leadership |
| 19. | OBHR | Industrial Relations and Labour Laws |
| 20. | BAIS | Information Systems Strategy |
| 21. | BAIS | E-commerce technology & Applications |
| 22. | ECOS | International Economics |
| 23. | FINA | Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management |
| 24. | FINA | Corporate Taxation |
| 25. | GNRM | Intercultural Communication Competence |
| 26. | GNRM | Management of Non Profit Organizations |
| 27. | GNRM | Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in Multinational context |
| 28. | MARK | Services Marketing |
| 29. | PROM | Technology Management |
| 30. | PROM | TQM and Six Sigma |
| 31. | PROM | Risk Management |
| 32. | BAIS | Social Network Analytics |
| 33. | FINA | Banking & Financial Markets Analytics |
| 34. | FINA | Algorithmic Trading |
| 35. | FINA | Market Microstructure |
| 36. | FINA | Fintech and Alternative Finance |
| 37. | FINA | Block chain applications in Finance |
| 38. | FINA | Behavioural & Personal Finance |
| 39. | GNRM | Management Lessons from Movies |
| 40. | GNRM | Women Leaders in Management |
| 41. | MARK | Customer Relationship Management |
| 42. | MARK | Pricing |
| 43. | MARK | Product and Brand Management |
| 44. | MARK | International Marketing |
| 45. | MARK | Rural Marketing |
| 46. | MARK | Advanced Marketing Analytics |
| 47. | MARK | Marketing of High Technology Products |
| 48. | OBHR | Compensation Management |
| 49. | OBHR | People Analytics |
| 50. | PROM | Logistics Management |
| 51. | BAIS | Quantitative Techniques II |
| 52. | ECOS | Digital Technologies and Future of Public policy |
| 53. | FINA | Time Series Econometrics |
| 54. | FINA | Actuarial Modelling |
| 55. | FINA | Banking Management |
| 56. | FINA | Working Capital Management |
| 57. | FINA | Strategic Cost Management |
| 58. | FINA | Business Valuation |
| 59. | FINA | Portfolio Management |
| 60. | FINA | Business Accounting & Investment Analytics |
| 61. | MARK | Integrated Marketing Communication |
| 62. | MARK | Marketing Analytics |
| 63. | OBHR | Competency Management |
| 64. | FINA | International Finance Management |
| 65. | FINA | Infrastructure and Project Finance |
| No. | Management Domain | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Business Analytics and Information Science | BAIS |
| 2. | Economics and Strategy | ECOS |
| 3. | Finance and Accounting | FINA |
| 4. | General Management | GNRM |
| 5. | Marketing | MARK |
| 6. | Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources | OBHR |
| 7. | Production and Operations Management | PROM |
| SL No | Course | Semester | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component I (2-4 credits core) | |||
| 1 | Advanced Business Analytics | 2 | BAIS |
| 2 | Time Series Econometrics | 3 | BAIS |
| Component II (2 credits in Semester 3 and 2 credits in Semester 4) | |||
| 3 | Supply Chain Analytics | 3 | BAIS |
| 4 | Marketing Analytics | 3 | MKT |
| 5 | Product Analytics | 4 | OM |
| 6 | Advanced Marketing Analytics | 4 | MKT |
| Component III ( Projects in Semester 3 and Semester 4) | |||
| 7 | Project I | 3 | |
| 8 | Project II | 4 | |
