IFMR conducts a two-year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management offering specializations in Finance, Marketing, HR and IT/Operations. Students securing 85 percentile and above are considered for Group discussions and personal interviews.

Faculty: The strength of the Institute is its large group of dedicated and multifunctional full time faculty comprising economists, statisticians, chartered & cost accountants, engineers, graduates in Business Administration, experts in marketing, strategy and project & infrastructure finance with right mix of industrial exposure and academic experience. Each student at IFMR is assigned a faculty member who acts as his/her mentor.

International affiliations resulting in high quality Management Development Programmes, consultancy research conducted in association with acclaimed international institutions like the London School of Economics, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Texas A&M;
and Commonwealth Secretariat.

IFMR’s links with industry have been established over three decades through various Management Development Programmes, consultancy and research assignments. This include companies like ICICI Bank, Murugappa Group, SANMAR, Polaris, Satyam, TVS Group, ITC, ABN AMRO, UCAL Fuel, GE Capital, etc.

Placement: IFMR has a 100% placement record since its inception. This year the average salary offered was Rs 5.6 lakhs and the highest salary offered was Rs.7.5 lakhs.

Infrastructure: There are 3-Well equipped state of the art IT labs, all networked supported by databases, software packages and other applications. These include Bloomberg Professional, Financial Trading System (FTS), Barra on Campus (containing Aegis and Cosmos), Prowess, Capital Line, eViews, Statistica, Gauss Optimization Software and Project Management Software.

Scholarship: IFMR has been selected by Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) as one of the five Business Schools in India to receive the prestigious T. Thomas Scholarship award of Rs.1.00 Lakh to be given to the best outgoing student of the two year full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) program. So far four students have already received the Scholarship from HLL.

6-I Approach: The curriculum has been developed based on the following six I’s namely Internationalization, Interpersonal Skills, Integrated Perspective, ICT Integration, Integrity and Individualization.

Knowledge Repository: Knowledge Management (KM) is an imperative not only for corporates but also for educational institutions where there is ongoing dissemination and sharing of knowledge. Knowledge needs to be captured and used efficiently. At IFMR, a KM portal has been launched which contains daily news, articles, presentations, faculty speak, snippets.

Admissions to the two year Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management closes
on January 31, 2007. You can download the application form at
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/pdf/application.pdf