Emphasising on the essential connection between theoretical learning and professional experience. Theory and experience, this linkage reflects in the core curriculum, ensuring that VJIM students always remain one step ahead in the increasingly competitive global environment. Providing exceptional learning opportunities, which is essential for the development of critical and independent thinkers, VJIM curriculum focuses on developing leadership skills and a sense of social responsibility. The PGDM course focuses not only on learning from books but also getting hands-on experience from industries. The main thrust of the curriculum is designed to make the students industry-ready by inculcating in them an ability to learn from real life situations. The course curriculum is designed to foster strong conceptual orientation on the basics of various management disciplines; a positive attitude with sound business ethics to make the students excel both personally and professionally.

Highlights of PGDM Programme :

•  The courseware has contemporary relevance with cutting edge knowledge that meets the industry needs.

•  The design of the courseware is based on the feedback received from industry experts and alumni with varied levels of experience in the industry. The feedback is carefully studied by the academic body. Contemporariness and relevance of the curriculum is the result of the synthesis of several inputs received from different quarters.

•  The students are trained in a systematic manner to the nuances of cutting edge knowledge with the objective to make them industry ready at the end of the two year programme.

•  Written and oral communication skills in English are given priority to improve articulation of subject knowledge. Communication lab with full infrastructure is available to the students.

•  In company live projects, taken up by students encourages them to enhance their learning by applying theoretical concepts to industry situations. This also fosters discovery learning.

•  Faculty from reputed universities from abroad are invited to impart international perspectives to the learning process.

•  The students are given exposure to real business environment through various guest lectures, panel discussions, seminars that are addressed by experts from the industry. Management festivals of the Institute hone the event management and organizational skills of the students.

•  Participative classroom learning is an integral part of classroom delivery and the students are encouraged and given additional credits for being participative in the class. Simulations, Exercises, Role plays and Group Presentations constitute bulk of teaching strategies besides lectures.

•  The well designed Personal Development Plan (PDP) coupled with time-tested Mentoring practice provides the teachers a very useful tool to monitor the student performance, progress and take mid course remedial actions, if any. The scheme aims at helping each student to take up a SWOT analysis and formulate his/her own career goals under guidance from the Mentor .

•  Term Papers enables students to develop the ‘self learning' ability and discovery learning.

Industry Visits :

The students are given opportunity to visit 4/5 industries to have experiential learning of business environment. They are encouraged to apply the theoretical concepts learnt to real life business situations.