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 51 credits in the 1st year and 45 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

Term I		Term II		Term III
Course	Credits	Course	Credits	Course	Credits
Business Statistics	3	Business Ethics	1	Competition and Strategy	3
Financial Reporting and Analysis	3	Corporate Finance	3	Human Resources Management	1.5
Managerial Economics	3	Legal Aspects of Business	2	Indian Economy and Policy	1.5
Managerial Communication	3	Macro Economics for Managers	3	Information Systems for Managers	3
Marketing Management -I	3	Macro Organizational Behavior	2	Management Accounting	2
Micro Organizational Behaviour	3	Marketing Management-II	1.5	Operations Management	3
		Operations Research for Manager	3	Research for Marketing Decisions	2
		The Entrepreneurial Manager	1.5

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:

Economy & Public Policy

Econometrics

Finance & Accounting

Behavioral Finance
Exchange Rate, Growth and Crises: India's Trilemma
Financial Derivatives
Financial Statement Analysis
Funds Management and Portfolio Selection
International Finance
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Management of Financial Services and Markets
Managing Banks and Financial Institutions
Mergers and Acquisitions
Project Analysis and Finance
Project Appraisal and Finance
Strategic Financial Management
Valuation

General Management

Data Visualization for Managers
International Business Practice
Stories to Caselets

Information Systems and Analytics

Artificial Intelligence Advantage in Business
Artificial Intelligence for Managers
Business Analytics for Decision Making
Business Insights from Big Data: Managing transformation from Data to Insights
Digital Mindfulness
E-Business and E-Commerce
Information Technology Consulting

Marketing

Business to Business Marketing
Customer Experience Planning and Execution
Digital Marketing
Marketing Initiatives for International Marketing
Marketing to the Base of the Pyramid Consumers
Pricing Strategy
Product and Brand Management
Promotion Strategy
Sales and Distribution Management
Semiotics for Marketing Effectiveness
Strategic Marketing in Action

Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management

Dealing Conflict and Difficult People at Work
Leadership Essentials
Managing and Leading Organizational Change
Managing Difficult People at Work
Negotiation Essentials for Managerial Effectiveness
Strategic Talent Acquisition for Gaining Competitive Advantage
Three Key Topics in Managing People in Organizations: Leadership, Organizational Culture, And Strategic Human Resource Management

Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques

Behavioural Dynamics in Decision Making
Business Forecasting
Data science using python
Decision Analysis for Managers
Design Thinking for Business
Getting ready for Industry 4.0
Global Supply Chain Management
Project Management
Strategic Management of Services
Supply Chain Management

Strategy

Competing in Global Markets
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Designing Performance Dashboards: Integrating business models, Strategy Execution, performance measurement and Visualization
Doing Business in USA
Dynamics of Framing and Executing Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Foundations of Strategy Consulting
Innovation and Strategic Renewal
Managing Innovations
Strategic Leadership

International Week

As a part of the International week, reputed faculty members from universities abroad would visit IIM Tiruchirappalli and take courses to our PGP 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.

Artificial Intelligence Advantage in Business
Customer Experience Planning and Execution
Dealing with Conflict and Difficult People at Work
Design Thinking for Business
Digital Mindfulness
Doing Business in USA
Exchange Rate Growth and Crisis: India's Trilemma
Funds Management and Portfolio Selection
Global Supply Chain Management
Introduction to e-Governance for Smart Cities
Managing Innovations
Stories to Caselets
Strategic Talent Acquisition for gaining Competitive Advantage
Three Key Topics in Managing People in Organizations: Leadership, Organizational Culture, And Strategic Human Resource Management

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.