One of India’s premier management institutes, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has launched a new two-year Online MBA Programme. This programme will be a degree-granting post-graduate program designed for working professionals and entrepreneurs who seek to balance between the work pressure and their professional aspirations.
Professor Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIM Ahmedabad, said, “This new program will be the turning point in the journey of IIMA. We call it blended mode as around 20% of the sessions will be done through on campus interactions. We had been experimenting with online learning before Covid pandemic, during the pandemic and have continued after that also.”
He further said, “ The Indian economy is standing on a turning point and the demand for good and skilled leadership is far more than all the IIMs can produce together.”
Giving details about the program, Professor Joshy Jacob, Chairperson, Online MBA, said, “In the last few years, there has been a significant change in the perception and the technologies used for online learning that is why we thought that it is the right time to launch a full-fledged degree-granting program online. This program contains 36 credits which qualifies it for a full degree under the NEP. The program will have 720 sessions with 900+ hours of teaching of which 20% of the sessions will be held physically on the campus to cover the topics that would need certain dynamism to be observed by the participants like the consumer-supplier negotiations.”
Jacob further said, “The participants are allowed to utilize the academic facilities of the institute to ensure no compromise in learning outcome. There will be two batches with a strength of 75 students each and the fee will be Rs 20 lakh, including all the taxes.”