sessions a week, each of 90 minutes’ duration. The students’
workload, including class sessions, required readings, term
papers, project work and field visits, is expected to require
about 70 hours of work per week.
Practical Exposure:
Over and above the regular courses offered
in the program, senior executives from industry are also
invited regularly to offer Immersion Courses for the students
with an objective of providing insightful discussions on
specific topics, which are normally not covered in the regular
course curriculum. Moreover, project assignments, seminars
by eminent scholars and executives, and summer training
in industry help the students acquire practical knowledge
about the technical and human problems in organisations.
The students are thereby enabled to observe the prevailing
methods and practices in organisations, and relate them
to the knowledge gained in the class room lectures. These
immersion courses, seminars and projects aim at generating
and evaluating alternative solutions to management issues.
The students are thus prepared to face with confidence, the
problems they may encounter in their professional career.
Student Exchange:
The institute has students exchange
program under which students from XIMB are sent to
Universities in Europe. Similarly, students from Europe visit
XIMB and undergo course work along with the MBA Students
at the institute. For the work done in different places, the
students get credit transfer. Our students have done their
exchange program courses in EUROMED Marseille Institute
of Management, France, IESEG School of Management, Lille
Catholic University, Lille, France and REIMS Management
School, Reims Cedex-France, etc.
Extra-curricular Activities:
As a policy, the Institute
encourages students to develop citizenship qualities in
addition to academic accomplishments. The Institute
encourages students to understand the community in terms of
their problems, difficulties, way of living, livelihood systems,
interface with the market, etc. Enough scope also exists in
the campus for other extra-curricular pursuits such as sports,
social service, book club, music, debates, quizzes, contests,
etc. through area-specific, voluntary student associations.
ACADEMIC SYSTEM
Program Design:
The Program consists of core course-credits
and elective course-credits totalling 105 credits. A course
can be of 1.5, 2, 3 or 4 credits. One credit is equivalent to 10
contact hours. In the first year, the students are exposed to
the core courses only. These are certain basic and functional
area courses. The objective is to expose the students to the
social and economic environment within which businesses
operate in India.
At the end of the first year (during the summer vacation), the
students are required to spend a minimum of eight weeks in
an organisation doing a project on some significant aspect or
management problem to be given by the host organisation.
The objective of the summer project is to provide the students
with an opportunity to observe an organisation in operation
and to relate what they have learnt to actual practice. The
student is required to submit the project report to the guide in
the organisation and also to the faculty guide at the Institute
for evaluation. This is a compulsory requirement to be eligible
for the award of the Degree.
ELECTIVES
Every year, each Area announces the list of electives to be
offered. In an effort to continually update the syllabus, keeping
with the faculty interests and industry requirements, elective
courses can be added or deleted from the list. Currently,
around fifty-three electives are being offered from the
various functional Areas which is one of the highest amongst
B-schools in the country. Only core courses from the OB and
HR area offered to MBA-BM students. Electives from the OB
and HR are generally not available for students of MBA-BM.
Electives will be offered in groups of subjects and students
would be required to choose one elective from each group,
subject to a minimum and maximum.
Academic Calendar:
The academic year consists of three terms,
each of approximately three months’ duration. The first term
extends from June to September, the second from September
to December and the third from December to March. The
full-time residential program involves an average of 14 class
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