About US

Since its inception in 1995, IBS has been one of the best B-Schools in the country, providing excellent academic delivery and infrastructure to its students. At IBS, we offer innovative and globally accepted programs and great opportunities for all-round development. 100% case-based learning is unique to IBS. IBS transforms its students into leaders of the future Set in the financial and industrial capital of India, IBS Mumbai leverages academic rigour with close industrial interaction to bring out the best of every student on campus. The excellent faculty members and state-of-the-art facilities make the intense transformation from student to manager smooth.

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IBS Approach

IBS has a unique and innovative approach to business education, that focuses on providing the right knowledge, imparting the right skills for enduring success in management careers, and shaping the right attitudes.

Knowledge

The right knowledge is clearly a critical success factor in business. The right knowledge implies relevant, contemporary and cutting-edge knowledge, in the theory and practice of a variety of core, functional and integrative subjects. As practice precedes theory in business, equal emphasis is placed on concepts and applications. This blending of ideas and actions is achieved through various pedagogic techniques like lectures, case studies, business games, the summer internship program, the management research project, etc.

Skills

What matters most in business is what one can actually do. Doing well implies mastering and applying the skills – professional, personal and human – required for effective decision-making and execution. IBS trains the students in these skills through a series of soft-skills lab sessions scheduled over the duration of the program. In addition, case-based learning at IBS helps students develop good analytical skills.

Attitude

A critical attribute for success in life is cultivating the right attitudes like positive thinking, risk-taking, opportunity-seeking, adapting to change, and achieving a proper balance between divergent goals of life. IBS helps students develop the right attitudes, and encourages them to grow into balanced and well-rounded individuals capable of taking up leadership positions.

Director’s Message

ICFAI Business School, Mumbai has emerged as a preferred destination for those aspiring for management education and recruiters in search of high quality potential managers. This is well reflected not only in the number of students who join IBS every year, but also in the quality of recruiters offering careers. Prestigious rankings of B-schools have placed IBS Mumbai among the top 25 in the national list of B-schools and among the top 5 B-schools in Mumbai. The story of IBS Mumbai and its steady growth over the years is seeded in its commitment to its vision and mission, and the steadfast harnessing of its rich physical and human resources towards making this vision a reality.

The mission of IBS Mumbai is to emerge as a thought leader with a global perspective and social sensitivity, by providing relevant and rigorous management education to its students, and by establishing a close link with the corporate world. The School seeks to provide the learning techniques, ambience and environment which would encourage students to think out-ofthe- box and assume leadership in their work life. What distinguishes IBS Mumbai from other B-schools is its unique endowments, its innovative processes and its focus on generating new knowledge to flow into its teaching-learning programs.

The School has distinguishing features that makes it a strong and preferred provider of management education viz., spacious campus in a prestigious location with ample provision for learning facilities in Wi-Fi environment, library and electronic resources, facilities for student interaction in its atrium, auditorium, gymnasium and other wide spaces, highly qualified faculty many of whom have been honored with awards, enviable track record of near 100% job placements for students, sustained over the years; rich exposure to the students through short duration and long duration projects and internships; development of Soft Skills through language Lab and Experiential Labs.

These indeed are also the ways in which IBS Mumbai has grown to its present ranking to be among the top B-schools and gain the respect of leading corporates. IBS-Mumbai is proud of the contribution that it is making in developing ethical and meritorious managers equipped with a blend of strong domain knowledge and the needed Soft Skills. It continues its march in pursuit of this relentless mission. I invite all our aspiring students to join IBS Mumbai.

Dr. Pritee Sanjeev Saxena
Director

Programs

1) MBA-

The two year MBA/PGPM Program of IBS is designed to give graduates exposure to management skills needed for the creation of specialists who can integrate across functional areas in a dynamic organization.

The Program provides a broad perspective of all areas of management. The courses offered in the program are practice oriented with emphasis placed on application of principles, tools and concepts to meet challenges and problems faced in today’s organizations. These courses are carefully designed to impart to students a managerial perspective in formulating and implementing corporate strategy. Students learn to take decisions critically and analytically taking into account the business considerations and ethical implications of these decisions and to deepen the understanding of the key functional areas and strategic dimensions of management, and to encourage future professionals to equip themselves with the latest tools and techniques.

SIP

In addition to the core and specialized courses offered in the program, IBS offers Summer Internship Program (SIP) which forms an important component of education at IBS. It is an attempt to bridge the gap between the professional world and academic institutions. At the end of Semester II, students undergo SIP which is for duration of 14 weeks. SIP is a vehicle for introducing students to real-life situation, which cannot be simulated in the classroom and requires the students to undergo the rigor of professional environment both in form and substance. It exposes them to technical skills and helps them to acquire social skills by drawing them onto contact with real professionals.

Soft Skills

IBS supplements the MBA/PGPM Program with soft skills which provide a unique opportunity for the student to develop, upgrade their personality, communication and presentation skills.

The learning outcomes of this program are:

English Language Skills, which include spoken and written skills

Good presentation skills

To be able to develop adequate self-confidence in inter-personal skills, team building and leadership

To be able to take effective part in various selection procedures adopted by the corporate recruiters

To develop self-confidence and self-esteem in themselves so that they are equipped and ready to operate

effectively in the dynamic business environment

Case Methodology

Case teaching methodology occupies a prominent role at IBS teaching. The Case Method assists students in identifying typical problems in specific functional areas of management. It is expected that students will study cases, comprehend the business situation, analyze the problems and come up with alternatives/solutions and then discuss the case in class. A good case is a very powerful instrument in evaluating a student as it puts the student into the shoes of the real-world managers who must face the challenge of decision-making.

Thus the Program offered at IBS is highly rigorous, completely transforming the student to be ready to meet the challenges of today’s corporate world.

The MBA program is offered at Dehradun, Hyderabad,Jaipur, IBS Bangalore (Off Campus of IFHE). The PGPM program is offered at Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.

2) Phd- ( Full –time and part-time)

The PhD program is designed for students interested in management teaching, research, and consultancy. The main objectives of the program are to:

• Develop management teachers well equipped with the skills required for imparting education to business school students
• Develop bright young academics with research skills to conduct research in contemporary issues in management

Course description

The PhD program has 4 phases, namely- Doctoral Coursework, Qualifying Examination, Preparation of Research Proposal and Thesis Work which can be completed in four years.

The candidates seeking admission for Full Time PhD Program with a post graduate degree in disciplines other than Management (MBA) are required to attend and clear the semester-1 and semester-2 courses of MBA program at IBS Hyderabad with a minimum CGPA of 7.5 as a pre-requisite to pursue PhD in Management.

The doctoral coursework ensures the students pick up the necessary functional skills to carry out Doctoral Thesis Research through seminars, courses and research projects. During the first two years, the students learn the basics of efficient and effective management instruction. They also experience the case method through the writing of cases as well as intensive workshops on teaching and soft skills. At the end of the coursework, students undergo the Qualifying Examination, which tests the student’s knowledge of the prescribed areas and their ability to apply it in original research.

Upon clearing the Qualifying Examination, the students register for the independent study seminars and prepare their PhD. thesis proposal under the guidance of a Doctoral Advisory Committee.

In the third year, the full time students are eligible to spend 6 months in a foreign University under the Visiting Scholar Program (optional) on self-supported basis. By the end of second year or early third year, they defend their thesis proposal and start working on their Ph.D. thesis. They complete the PhD. thesis work in the fourth year.

The PhD program trains the candidate to an extent where they can be assured of success in any organization – whether academic or corporate.

The part time PhD works in an almost similar manner. The course work is completed over a period of two years and the candidate is expected to make eight visits to campus for 9 days each in a quarter. The process of Qualifying Examination, Thesis Proposal and Thesis Defense are the same as the Full Time PhD program.

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