Department of Management Studies IIT Madras - Programs Offered - MBA

MBA

The MBA programme is a two-year programme, structured with courses spread over eight quarters and about five to six courses per quarter. The first year contains core courses that are compulsory for all students, whereas the second year mostly has electives and a few core courses.

In the summer break between the first and second year, students are expected to work on a summer project with a company.

Apart from regular academics, course activities include taking courses on audit, going on field visits, participating in management workshops, organizing professional events, and working on live business projects. The programme includes three core courses on various Industrial and Business Domains spread over the last three quarters.

Students of the programme can opt for auditing courses (i.e. taking classes but not assignments or exams and not receiving credits) from any of the elective courses offered by the Department of Management Studies or from the more than 300 courses offered by the other 14 departments in the Institute.

Early recruiters can guide students to opt for selected courses - electives, Industrial and Business Domains, and audit courses - during the last three quarters. Additionally, recruiters can also offer students projects in the last quarter to enable smooth induction.

Co-curricular courses offered at the department include business communication and presentation skills, negotiation skills, teamwork and conflict resolution skills, time management, business etiquette, and foreign languages (primarily German).

The batch size is in the range of 80 to 85 students, picked from over 250000 applicants who take up the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management followed by a Group Task/Personal interview session later on. Until 2011 admission was based on the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) conducted the IITs and Indian Institute of Science in rotation. From the academic year 2012 JMET is replaced with Common Admission Test (CAT).