MBA (Masters in Business Administration), the flagship programme of Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), IIT Kharagpur is a two year residential programme at the end of which, the students get placed with reputed companies and organizations in managerial roles. Some of them also start their own enterprise or nurture a dream of becoming an entrepreneur in the future. They are products of this Institute who are expected to bring about new perspective, knowledge of recent developments and trends, add value and contribute to the long term goals and vision of the organization they join, or in their own personal initiatives as entrepreneurs. The environment of business is rapidly changing all over the world, with unprecedented and unforeseen changes in economy, geopolitics, technology and innovation. Hence training future managers to better fit into the needs of businesses as well as to carve a niche for themselves in their chosen domain, the MBA programme needs to be comprehensive in breadth while imparting them rigour of knowledge and understanding in cutting edge of developments in their chosen domains.
| Subject Name | Credits |
|---|---|
| Financial Accounting & Reporting | 2 |
| Cost & Management Accounting | 2 |
| Statistical Methods for Management | 2 |
| Management Information Systems | 2 |
| Production & Operations Management | 2 |
| Quantitative Techniques I | 2 |
| Marketing Management I | 2 |
| Business Analytics | 2 |
| Organizational Behaviour | 2 |
| Spreadsheet Modelling and Programming for Business | 1 |
| Micro economics for Managers | 2 |
| Business Outside classroom (Project) | 1 |
| Total Credits | 22 |
22 credits are to be completed which includes 9 core subjects and 2 electives.
| Subject Name | Credits |
|---|---|
| Corporate Finance | 2 |
| AMRP (Project) | 2 |
| Supply Chain Management | 2 |
| Business Econometrics | 2 |
| Marketing Management II | 2 |
| Marketing Research | 2 |
| Resource Management | 2 |
| Macro Economics for Managers | 2 |
| Managerial Communication | 2 |
| Two Electives | |
| Total Credits | 22 |
24 credits are to be completed which includes 4 core subjects and 9 electives.
| Subject Name | Credits |
|---|---|
| Strategic Management | 2 |
| Summer Internship Project | 4 |
| Business Government and International Economic Environment | 1 |
| Organizational Design, Change and Transformation | 1 |
| 9 Electives Courses | 16 |
| Total | 24 |
24 credits are to be completed which includes 4 core subjects and 9 electives
| Subject Name | Credits |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Viva | 2 |
| Business Law for Managers | 2 |
| Business Ethics and Corporate Governance | 1 |
| Business Simulation Game | 1 |
| 9 Electives Courses | 16 |
| Total | 24 |
A set of electives courses belonging to various domains are provided by VGSoM. These electives can be chosen in semester 2, 3 and 4
| Elective Name |
|---|
| Software Project Management |
| Security & Risk Management |
| International Management |
| Derivatives & Risk Management |
| Commercial Banking |
| Mergers, Acquisition & Corporate Restructuring |
| Fixed Income Markets & Securities |
| Consumer Behaviour |
| Sales and Distribution Management |
| B2B Marketing |
| Marketing Strategy |
| Retail Marketing |
| Supply Chain Analytics |
| Purchasing & Outsourcing |
| Product Analytics |
| Manufacturing strategy |
| Project Management |
| Organizational Leadership |
| Industrial Relations and Labour Laws |
| Information Systems Strategy |
| E-commerce technology & Applications |
| International Economics |
| Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management |
| Corporate Taxation |
| Intercultural Communication Competence |
| Management of Non Profit Organizations |
| Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in Multinational context |
| Multinational context |
| Services Marketing |
| Technology Management |
| TQM and Six Sigma |
| Risk Management |
| Social Network Analytics |
| Banking & Financial Markets Analytics |
| Algorithmic Trading |
| Market Microstructure |
| Fintech and Alternative Finance |
| Block chain applications in Finance |
| Behavioural & Personal Finance |
| Management Lessons from Movies |
| Women Leaders in Management |
| Customer Relationship Management |
| Pricing |
| Product and Brand Management |
| International Marketing |
| Rural Marketing |
| Advanced Marketing Analytics |
| Marketing of High Technology Products |
| Compensation Management |
| People Analytics |
| Logistics Management |
| Quantitative Techniques II |
| Digital Technologies and Future of Public policy |
| Time Series Econometrics |
| Actuarial Modelling |
| Banking Management |
| Working Capital Management |
| Strategic Cost Management |
| Business Valuation |
| Portfolio Management |
| Business Accounting & Investment Analytics |
| Integrated Marketing Communication |
| Marketing Analytics |
| Competency Management |
The Students can also take a few electives from other departments of the institute, which gives them opportunity to study various multidisciplinary subjects from departments like Computer Science, Law, Humanities, Entrepreneurship, Industrial and System Engineering and so on. The courses which have been taken by students are AI and law, Intellectual Property Management, Change Management, Algorithm Design and Machine Learning, Conflict Resolution and Management and International Commercial Arbitration.
