PGDM
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)
The Two-Year Full Time Post Graduate Diploma in Management is an AICTE approved Programme which is designed to train and groom the future managers at FORE School of Management. This programme builds students comprehensive understanding of the general business environment and their impact on various management functions like marketing, operations, human resources, finance, strategy and information technology and help students in acquiring conceptual and analytical abilities required for effective decision-making and their implementation enabling the students to operate in the dynamic and complex working environment.
Pedagogy
The instructional methodology comprises an optimum mix of lectures, classroom discussions, case studies, simulations, role-plays, group discussions, special sessions from professionals from the industry, management games, sensitivity training, industrial visits, and industry connectedness built through each of its programmes.
Curriculum
The curriculum of the PGDM at FORE School of Management is an outcome of benchmarking against the best in the world, and continuous review by the faculty in concert with industry practitioners, policymakers, and legal professionals.
The content and design of courses are aimed at developing future managers who have:
(1) Integrated Functional Mastery with Strategic Perspective - Develop a deep, integrative understanding of key functional areas—such as finance, marketing, operations, and human resources—while cultivating appreciation for their interconnected role in creating sustainable business value and positive societal impact.
(2) Industry Readiness through Practice-Oriented Learning – able to bridge theory and practice as they relate to real-world business contexts.
(3) Technology-Enabled Decision-Making Skills - future-ready capabilities in emerging digital tools and analytical technologies, to make informed, data-driven decisions in dynamic and complex business environments.
In the two years of the programme, students have to undergo both core and elective courses. These courses are an eclectic mix of foundational, perspective building, technology oriented, and functional courses. The core courses provide rigorous grounding in the discipline of management and the understanding of business in their specific context. The core courses are taught in the First year, which is divided into three Terms (a Term is typically of 10 weeks of classes and at most 2 weeks of examinations). Elective courses begin from Term-4 onwards. Thus, while Term-1, 2 and 3 have only core courses, Term-4, 5 and 6 have only elective courses. The elective courses allow students to choose and develop proficiency in an Area of Specialization.
After the first year of the programme, students are required to undertake 8-10 weeks of Summer Internship in a public, private, or social sector organization. The successful completion of the Summer Internship Project (SIP) is a mandatory requirement for the completion of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management. Summer Internship is aimed at providing students important industry-readiness insights with regard to assessing business problems, understand the application of management concepts in the industry, and practice-led knowledge of management.
The second year of the programme, from Term-4 to Term-6, consists only of elective courses. These comprise courses offered by different Areas, courses of independent study (CIS), courses studied under exchange programmes, and the complimentary International Immersion Programme (IIP).
The IIP is a complimentary part of the full-time course curriculum that is held after Term-3 for students to have an exposure to international business scenario and global knowledges and best practices in their respective area of specialization. The immersion involves 15 hours of in-class teaching of the elective course opted by the student along with industrial and corporate visits at any one of the international partner institutions abroad. The credits earned in the IIP accrue in Term-4.
Programme Structure and Credits
The institute uses the concept of credits to indicate the number of in-class contact hours in a course. One credit equals 10 in-class contact hours. The 3.0 credits course involves around 100 hours of work i.e., 30 hours in the classroom, and the rest for preparation and assignments.
A student is required to complete 109.5 credits (in total) for the award of Post Graduate Diploma in Management. Out of the required credits, 103.5 credits come from core (60.0 credits) and elective (43.5 credits) courses, and 6.0 credits from Summer Internship. It must be noted that the credits earned from Summer Internship are not used for calculation of Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
The Year and Term wise Course Credit distribution in the PGDM programme is as under:
* The Term-wise credit requirement may vary for students opting for IIP Plus, which signifies extended IIP undertaken by a student.
