The
MBA Program offered under The Department of Industrial & Management
Engineering (IME), IIT Kanpur is kind of a unique in its own sense in various
aspects and perspectives. Since inception, it has gone through many changes and up gradation
depending on changing needs of the society and industries but always keeping in
mind the ultimate vision of “Transforming
today's professionals in technology into tomorrow's world class leaders”.
With the tremendous help of faculties of top-notch qualifications &
backgrounds, the emphasis of MBA at IIT Kanpur is to nurture the
leaders who dare to unlearn and relearn in the dynamic world of business".
Following are some of the new changes that took place this year (2015) only to
keep the program more industry friendly and to keep track with the changing
needs of time.
i.
Batch Profile: Complete
batch comprises of engineers with a very decent average work experience. Now,
the next year onward IIT-Kanpur has decided to open the gate to non engineering background students (With Math/Stats/Eco as bachelors’ subjects)
too. Considering this IIT-K is going to be the first IIT in this country to take
such an effective decision.
ii.
Ever Evolving Curriculum:
After taking into consideration the feedback from industry and ex students, the
curriculum of IIT-K MBA has again completely re structured, laying more focus
on electives rather than compulsory courses. This year onward students will
have only 7 must compulsory subjects. Rest all of them they can choose from the
entire pool of electives offered. Students are now free enough to design their
own curriculum keeping in mind their ultimate aim and target industry.
iii.
The half credit courses
introduced from this year only side by side the full credit ones are
undoubtedly the special USP of IIT-K MBA, giving the ultimate advantage to
study and learn according to ones wishes. Students can now enhance the number
of subjects taken by designing the entire course as per their flexible wish.
iv.
Real Life Project
Opportunities: The cap stone project of final semester,
containing 50% weightage of the entire semester gives the students a real life
business scenario to analyze and come up with optimum solution. This live project
taken mostly from industries is another important part which the students
should compulsorily carry out thus giving them an industry based real life
challenge.
v.
The overall MBA
Curriculum of IIT Kanpur has been designed keeping
in mind the importance of field based project works more rather than solely
concentrating on classroom studies. Because IIT-K believes that without making
ones hands dirty with real life scenarios one can’t become that successful
manager. IIT-Kanpur believes that, nurturing the budding managers in actual
case based live scenario would give them more understating of the critical
business concepts. First semester onward students need to go through live
projects, collecting data, analyzing them and finally reaching the conclusion
to take decision upon.
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