XLRI - Xavier School of Management announced admission to the Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) for Working Executives and Business Owners for the batch 2018-2021.
XLRI has redesigned its three-year AICTE-approved Evening post-graduate diploma programme as a weekend programme from 2017. The three-year part-time weekend programme in business management is designed and structured to enable working executives and business owners to develop the requisite managerial and business skills and competence for a managerial/ownership role.
The last date of receipt of application with payments is March 31, 2018.
Candidates are to be selected through a written aptitude test on April 8. The test will have sections on quantitative ability, logical reasoning, and English language skills. Candidates who have written any of the well-established management entrance examination (for example, XAT, GMAT, CAT, and the like), in the last two years are encouraged to send the copy of the scores along with the application. Personal interviews are to be held from April 7–17 at the XLRI Campus.
Candidates having a three years Bachelors degree or equivalent in any discipline recognised by a University or a Deemed University and a minimum work experience of two years in managerial/supervisory/executive/ownership role prior to April 30, 2018 are eligible to apply for this programme. Candidates who have completed the four-year Bachelors' degree in any Engineering discipline from a University or Deemed University are also eligible to apply. The candidate must have a minimum score of 50 per cent marks (or its equivalent GPA).
The fees of the programme amounts to ₹11 lakhand is payable in instalments as decided by the institute.
The programme is scheduled to commence in the third week of May.
“The programme has been uniquely designed to impart highest quality of management education and develop a general management perspective to the participants through application of the classroom learning in workplace and special projects. The structure of weekend classes allow students to meet their requirements and addressing their general needs for balancing work, education and personal life to the best extent feasible.,” said Fr. E Abraham S.J., Director of XLRI.
Spread over three academic years, the programme comprises 900 hours of coursework interaction with sessions to be conducted mainly in physical classrooms during the weekends at XLRI Jamshedpur to accommodate the time constraints of working executives and business owners. On select weekends, sessions will be conducted virtually to provide greater flexibility to the students. The virtual classes will only be 25 per cent of the sessions. The programme scheduling also provides for breaks between terms and during the financial year ending which is typically a hectic time.
The programme aims to provide maximum interaction opportunities for students with renowned faculty, industry experts and peers, and share their work/marketplace experiences. The programme allows students to apply the conceptual insights gained in the classroom to their respective workplace on a day-to-day basis. In addition to the application opportunities provided in individual courses, the two field-work based projects provide ample scope to apply the knowledge gained during the programme to real-life business settings and decisions. Students are also given multiple opportunities to understand the real-life applications and relevance of the knowledge gained in different courses through in-built evaluation mechanisms such as projects, assignments, case study based assignment cum presentations, and the like.