Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) (AICTE)

Program Structure

Institute of Future Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership (iFEEL) offers 2 year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (AICTE approved) with special focus on Entrepreneurship and Leadership. The trimester system followed in the program will engage students in several live projects and activities that help them to shape their personality. Subjects like Strategic Management, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Business Environment, Change Management, Corporate Tax Planning, Operating Systems, Decision Models for Management, Specialization projects and many more have been incorporated into the curriculum to shape the students to make meaningful contribution in the corporate world.

The program offers specialization in Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Operations and Information Systems and Technology in the second year. Students may select the electives in these areas as per his / her career goals.

The Institute offers 69 courses in the PGDM program, made up of 32 core courses, 37 elective courses and Summer Internship Program (SIP) (the course contents are given later in this booklet). In addition, seminar courses are offered in topics of contemporary relevance. Orientation courses are offered in specific courses according to the concerned faculty's teaching requirements in that particular course. Orientation and core courses are common to all students.

The concept of credits is used to define the weightage of a course in the curriculum. The courses have two or three credits, depending on the coverage of topics. The seminars have one credit. 'One credit' connotes 10 classroom contact hours. Thus, a two-credit course involves 20 classroom contact hours and a three-credit course involves 30 classroom contact hours.

The total number of credits (excluding seminar courses) for the 69 courses offered by the Institute is 168. This is distributed as follows:

The Institute adopts a Trimester pattern and each Trimester comprises of 12 weeks duration and minimum of 50 days of teaching / classroom interaction.

Elective courses are offered in the IV, V and VI terms. The minimum number of credits to be taken is indicated in the table above. The specific electives in each of the three terms will be indicated and students are required to make their choice of credits term-wise. If the number of enrolment for an elective course is less than 5, it will not be offered.

The student can participate in any number of seminars. He/ She will have to nominate 3 seminars to be reported in the grade card.

The evaluation procedure for the PGDM is based on:

• Course-wise evaluation (Grade Point – GP)
• Term-wise evaluation (Grade Point average – GPA)
• Cumulative term-wise evaluation (Cumulative Grade Point average – CGPA)

Two month Summer Internship

At the end of the first year, students are required to undertake projects with organizations. The project assignment intends to expose students to the working of the corporate world and to sharpen their thinking skills for innovative ideas. The work assignment is of 60 days duration and a detailed report has to be submitted at the end to the respective mentor.

Curriculum

C – Core, E – Elective

GEN – General Management

FIN – Financial Management

HRM – Human Resource Management

OPM – Operations Management

IST – Information Systems and Technology

MKTG – Marketing

Subjects mentioned are indicative and will be revised by the Institute from time to time for the betterment of the curriculum. Electives will be offered only if a minimum number of 10 students opt for the same.