Curriculum

Curriculum

The first year of the programme offers courses covering various disciplines exposing the students to different facets of business management. On completion of these core courses, the programme provides the option of choosing electives from a pool of specialized courses during the second year. The elective courses are designed to nurture future managers in the area of their interests, aligning them with their career goals and objectives. Students work on a Summer Internship assignment in an organization and also undertake ‘Make a Difference’ Team project as part of the curriculum.

Credits

Students enrolled in the PGPM are required to complete 96 credits made up of 54 credits in the 1st year and 42 in the 2nd year. The institute uses the concept of credit to define the weightage of a course in the curriculum. Courses are listed as one, two or three credit courses depending on the indicated workload for each course. The generally accepted thumb rule is that a three credit course involves about 100 hours of work, about 30% in the class room and the balance outside the class - in preparation and assignments. One and two credit courses would have a proportionately lesser workload.

Core Courses – Year 1 – Terms I, II & III

* The Core Elective is designed as a comprehensive course that provides students with an overview of all elective areas. It enables them to integrate concepts across disciplines and apply this knowledge effectively during their Summer Internship.

Summer Internship 

All PGPM students between the 1st and the 2nd year are required to work on a summer internship assignment in an organization for a period of 8 to 10 weeks. Interns are evaluated by organisations and a satisfactory rating on the evaluation is required in order to complete the requirements for the graduation.

Elective Courses – Year 2 – Terms IV, V & VI

A range of elective courses across areas are offered in the second year. The courses offered every year would depend on the interests of respective batches.The following are the elective courses that were offered for bidding by students in the recent academic years:

General Management

• Business Sustainability: for People, Planet & Profits [BS-PPP]
• Data Visualization for Managers [DVM]
• Crafting Persuasive Narratives: The Art of Strategic Storytelling [CPN]

Economics & Public Policy

• Game Theory for Managers [GTM]
• Contemporary Debates in Development: India and the World [CDD]
• International Trade and Policy for Managers [ITPM]

Finance & Accounting

• Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management [IAPM]
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring [MACR]
• Valuation [VAL]
• Management of Banking and Financial Institutions [MBFI]
• Financial Statement Analysis [FSA]
• Financial Derivatives [FD]
• Strategic Financial Management [SFM]
• Entrepreneurial Finance [EF]
• FINTECH- Revolution, Ecosystem & Application in Finance [FIN-TECH]
• Advanced Corporate Finance [ACF]
• Management of Financial Services [MFS]
• Commercial Bank Management [CBM]
• Corporate Tax Planning for Managers [CTPM]
• Financial Derivatives & Risk Management [FDRM]
• International Finance [IF]
• Project Finance [PF]
• Behavioral Finance [BF]
• Securities Trading [ST]

Information Systems and Analytics

• IT Consulting [ITC]
• Managing Digital Transformations [MDT]
• Business Analytics for Decision Making [BADM]
• Business Insights From Bigdata: Managing Transformation of Data To Insights [BIBD]
• Digital Product Management for Startups [DPMS]
• Digital Product Management [DPM]
• Blockchain Technology: A Managerial Perspective [BCT]
• E-Business and E-Commerce [EBEC]
• Active Digital Debates [ADD]
• Artificial Intelligence for Managers [AIM]
• Enterprise Systems for Managers [ESM]
• Text Analytics using No-Code Platforms [TANP]

Marketing

• Product Policy and Brand Management [PPBM]
• Consumer Behavior [CB]
• Digital Marketing [DM]
• Marketing Initiatives for International Marketing [MIIM]
• Business to Business Marketing [B2B]
• Sales and Distribution Management [SDM]
• Promotion Strategy [PS]
• Pricing Strategy [PRS]
• Brand Crisis Management [BCM]
• Retail Management [RM]
• Strategic Marketing in Action [SMA]
• Marketing of Services [MS]
• Customer Experience Management [CEM]
• International Marketing [IM]
• Marketing Metrics for Managers [MMM]
• Advanced Marketing Research [AMR]
• Personal Selling [PeS]
• Sports Marketing & Sponsorship [SM&SP]

Operations Management & Decision Science

• Business Forecasting [BSF]
• Decision Analytics for Managers [DAM]
• Supply Chain Management [SCM]
• Behavioural Dynamics in Decision Making [BDDM]
• Strategic Management of Services [SMS]
• Logistics Decisions in Supply Chains [LDSC]
• Project Management [PRM]
• Managing Industry 4.0 Transformation [MIT 4.0]
• Operations Process Improvement using Simulation [OPIS]
• Quality Essentials For Managers [QEM]
• Supply Chain Analytics [SCA]

Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management

• Leadership Effectiveness and Performance [LEAP]
• Strategic HR Management [SHRM]
• Managing Difficult People at Work [MDPW]
• Negotiation Essentials for Managerial Effectiveness [NEME]
• Managing & Leading Organizational Change [MLOC]
• Political Risk [PR]
• Nudge and Gamification Skills for Managers & Enterprises [NGS]

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

• Strategies for Growth [SG]
• Innovation and Strategic Renewal [ISR]
• Design Thinking [DT]
• Management Consulting [MTC]
• Dynamics of Framing and Executing Strategy [DFES]
• Strategic Value Creation in the Circular Economy [SVCCE]

International Week

As a part of the International week, reputed faculty members from universities abroad would visit IIM Tiruchirappalli and take courses to our PGPM students. This would ensure that students who do not get an opportunity to go abroad on exchange due to lack of enough exchange slots or due to reasons of affordability could still get an international exposure in the form of attending courses offered by faculty members from universities abroad. Professors from five countries taught the following courses.

• A Business Manager’s Road Map to Planning Strategic Information Technologies
• An Introduction to Health Economics for Managers
• Business Data Analytics with Categorical and Censored Outcomes
• Corporate Environment, Social and Governance Sustainability for Shared Value
• Entrepreneurial Marketing
• Fundamentals of Fixed Income Investing
• Geopolitics and Business
• Global Operations Management
• International Business
• Introduction to E-Governance and Smart City
• Management of Business Project Requirements: A Pre-Requisite to Project Success
• Management of Cyber and Digital Risk
• Managing A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce: Current Status & Implications
• Sustainable Finance
• Sustainable Leadership
• Sustainable Marketing

Course of Independent Study

Students are given an option to take up a ‘Course of Independent Study’ (CIS) during Terms IV or V,under the supervision of faculty member. The objectives of CIS are as under:

• Encouraging students to delve deeply and rigorously into any subject/theme/ live business case of their interest.
• Provided an opportunity for the motivated students to develop the capacity to plan and manage own learning.

‘Make a Difference’ Project

IIM Tiruchirappalli 's vision is to produce socially responsible corporate managers and leaders who also contribute to the immediate community of which they and their organizations are a part of.  IIM Tiruchirappalli believes that organizational leaders should engage with societal issues that affect their community and offer their organizational and managerial expertise in tackling these complex problems. There is also a growing recognition among the leaders of corporate world that they need to look beyond the immediate boundaries of their companies. Business leaders as ‘custodians of society’s most powerful institutions are increasingly expected to ‘reconnect business success with social progress’. Make a difference’ (MAD) project is conceived in this context. As part of this project, all the students of PGPM would work in teams of five or six on an issue of social importance. They work on a specific theme such as education, health etc., or work on a project with an organization like NGO etc. All projects should necessarily involve on-the-field component and should be carried out under the guidance of a faculty member. The projects are evaluated by faculty mentor and external experts. A satisfactory rating in the team project is a mandatory requirement for the graduation.

CFA University Recognition

Our programme is the first IIM programme to be accepted into the CFA University Recognition Program. Programmess which cover at least 70% of the CFA curriculum (CBOK) are considered for the recognition. In addition, the institution also needs to demonstrate a commitment to ethics in their curriculum. As a result of this recognition, PGPM students of IIM Tiruchirappalli are entitled to three scholarships per academic year for the CFA Program. For further details on the University Recognition Program please visit here.