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The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Monday launched its new two-year e-Post Graduate Programme in Management (ePGP) for working executives and entrepreneurs with a hybrid learning structure — online as well as classroom learning. This marks the entry for IIM-A into online education.
Online learning solutions provider Hughes Global Education is the technology partner for the course.
Target audience Announcing the course here, IIM-A Director Ashish Nanda said the course has been designed keeping in mind the requirements of the entrepreneurs and working executives to add value to their professional functioning and equipping them with knowledge in areas of management.
“This is the wave of future. This course is targeted at junior, mid and senior level professionals and entrepreneurs seeking skills and strategies to take their organisations to the next level,” Nanda said. The fees of the programme is ₹17 lakh (excluding taxes) for the two-year period.
More programmes IIM-A is also considering to launch six other hybrid programmes, three in partnership with Hughes Global Education and three others in partnership with NIIT. “These programmes will cover different areas of management learning including business financing, business analysis, advanced general management among others,” said Nanda.
“We are already offering courses at other premier business institutes. But the course being offered at IIM-A is a much more intensive and rigorous programme. We have set up 80 tech-enabled classrooms across 45 cities,” said Partho Banerjee, president & managing director, Hughes Communications India Ltd.
The two-year ePGP course will begin in June 2017, and have 800 classroom instruction hours, which will be conducted during evening hours or over the weekends to suit the convenience of working executives or business owners.
Admission criteria Minimum qualification requirements are graduation and three years of work experience. The entry to the course is through an entrance test, either GMAT, CAT or IIM Admission Test (IAT).
In the first year, the programme will comprise compulsory core courses, which is followed by a bouquet of elective courses in the second year.
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