Saturday, July 17, 2010

ONE-YEAR MBA

class of 2010 at IIM-Lucknow’s Noida campus was brimming with enthusiasm. Quite a few of them gave up well-paying positions to enrol in this full-time one-year residential course for mid-and-senior-level managers at a time when others would hang on tenaciously to their jobs.

During the 15-minute break between classes BW got a chance to meet the IPMX students. Most of them were quite clear that an MBA should be pursued after some work experience and not immediately after graduation.

Says Alok Arora who spent six years at Infosys as a technical architect, “Clarity about what you want to do comes with experience.”

Chetan Yadav, who quit Convergys as senior manager after more than six years on the job, had his own reasons to join the course. “If I had done an MBA 10 years ago, by the time I reached a level of overall responsibility, I would have forgotten a lot of things I learnt. The learning now will help me when I reach a position where my actions will have an impact on the organisation.”

One-year full-time MBA courses pioneered in India by the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) appear to be almost as coveted as the sought after two-year MBA courses at premium institutes of management, if not more. While the debate on whether it is the one-year courses or the regular two-year programmes that churn out better managers continues, the number of applications to institutes offering these courses — ISB, Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Kolkata, Xavier Labour Relations Institute and SP Jain Institute of Marketing and Research to name a few — has been steadily increasing.

About 1,400 people applied for IIM-A’s Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) this year, up from 700 in 2005 when it started. The appeal of these programmes has also broadened with professionals from sectors as varied as healthcare, shipping and the armed forces seeking admission in these courses.

The impeccable placement record is no doubt a key factor for the increasing popularity of the executive MBA programmes. Recruitment has been 100 per cent in many institutes despite a slowdown. As Shailesh Gandhi, chairperson of IIM-A’s PGPX, says, “Seventy per cent of the students in the previous batch were placed by convocation day. The rest were recruited by April.”

www.credila.com

9 comments:

  1. It’s a big risk to take when one quits a job to enrol in a one-year MBA program. It also shows the confidence that students have in this program to enhance their careers and ultimately their lives.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Much obliged to you for sharing such extraordinary data. It has help me in discovering more insight aboutEducation Loan For Mba

    ReplyDelete
  3. Much obliged to you for sharing such extraordinary data. It has help me in discovering more insight aboutBest Education Loan In India

    ReplyDelete
  4. Wonderful post,It is momentous to consider your little kind of the activity on the occasion of the Halloween. This is the best way to deal with oversee praise this day with the best way but you can check this page to manage your essay work. You have to respect that you can do the best things with the best way to deal with oversee commend this event.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Good post,Preparing moreover urges how to speak with progressively arranged people Now personalstatementlength.com personal statement length to manage your thesis work. youths rule gets a typical change our character dismissing how availability isn't joking weapon through we can change our condition.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Excellent post,The Target of Education should be undeviatingly connected with the causing of that Area as an ideological structure Now why not look here to manage your thesis work. The contemporariness of spread should answer the intrigue related to the target of Education is.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Good blog post, I am also student of MBA and learn many new ideas in account. I prefer to read this page to manage you thesis work. Supposition like that not next is searched for after very close by shutting eyes and ear close to thought regions forward business factor than social.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Awesome blog entry, It changes into the basic issue of the day that informed individuals are not set up to consider anything in their life as appeared by them they navigate to this website for their up enough reasonable to settle on the choice.

    ReplyDelete
  9. If you're looking for Educational Loan For Mba, I would recommend you to check this for more details
    Educational Loan For Mba

    ReplyDelete