KMS PGDM FAQS

The business world has become very dynamic and vibrant. A Management degree is a great way to prepare for a changing business environment. The abilities one develop are also the best tools you have to adapt to the unavoidable change of industries, the marketplace, and the ways people do business. Management education helps one to come out of the comfort zones, apply the latest management tool and techniques.

The PGDM program at KMS is a differentiator, industry 4.0 is challenging the way we function, understand an solve problems. The PGDM program addresses the challenges posed by Industry 4.0 and prepares students to hit the ground running in the corporate world.

Industry 4. 0, also referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, conceptualises rapid change to technology. It is the next Economic, Business and Industrial revolution and it has technology as its salient feature. Industry 4.0 has started making inroads in Manufacturing, Real estate, IT, ITES, Retail, Banking and Financial services.

It’s a confluence of Functional Skill, Technological Skill and Analytical Skills. In a disruptively changing world, a management professional to excel in corporate world must have techno-managerial skills.

Industry Immersion project (IIP), where in a student studies an industry of his interest in detail. It sensitizes students about Industry dynamics , it cross functional nature and business realities at the grass root level.  The IIP helps student to Understand, Analyse, Map, Bridge, Integrate and Implement Industry best practices.

Dayitva”-it’s an obligation towards societal development. It inculcates social responsibilities and sensitizes students on social, economic and environmental issues in their immediate surrounding.It helps students to explore the nature of the “triple bottom lines”.

Kohinoor Management School in partnership with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) offers a rigorous 80 hours program in Entrepreneurship concurrently with the PGDM program. The idea is to equip students with “entrepreneurship as an employment skill”

The following certifications are offered along with the PGDM program:

  1. Design Thinking
  2. Digital Marketing
  3. Python
  4. Capital Markets
  5. Fintech and Digital Payments
  6. Marketing analytics
  7. People Analytics

In India, MBA. MMS and PGDM are the three types of post-graduation programs available in the field of management. Although all three are related to management and much similar in the course curriculum, there is a huge difference in the delivery of the course.

MMS is a two-year management degree approved by the AICTE and affiliated to Mumbai University. The MBA degree is exclusive to universities or institutes granting the degree in affiliation to universities, owing to education regulations in India, only allowing universities the right to offer degree courses like Masters. The curriculum of MMS/MBA programs are more technical and theoretical in nature.

PGDM i.e, postgraduate diploma in management is an AICTE approved diploma course of two year, however most of the reputed and top tier colleges in India grant PGDM instead of MBA/ MMS. PGDM courses being autonomous are more contemporary and in sync with the latest skill sets required in industry.