Educational Institutes, Colleges and Universities in India
VNS Institute of Management
VNS Campus, Neelbud, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh-462002
Tel: 0755-2696655-54/5284027/5291985
Fax: 0755-5273534/2696882
Director: Prof. P. K. Chopra
Madhya Pradesh is the emerging as one of the educational hubs of the country even though it started late and Bhopal and Indore are the two cities which has the largest concentration of management institutions in the country. VNS has been an early entrant in this race and has enjoyed the first mover advantage. Not one to sit back on its laurels, the institute has1 been building on its strength through infrastructure and faculty additions.
VNS Institute of Management is a b-school committed to achieve excellence in management education. Established in 1996, VNS Institute of Management is one of the oldest management institutes in Madhya Pradesh The institute has always been innovative in its approach. The institute has developed excellent infrastructure spread over 14 acres. Apart from academics, the institute is comprehensively focusing on research, development and training. VNS publishes a management journal - VNS Management Today.
The institute has been conducting training programmes for academicians and industry. The faculty members have rich corporate and academic experience. The institute believes in making academic purposeful and result oriented to meet the needs of industry and society.
The institute conducts the following programmes affiliated to Barkatullah University, Bhopal.
MBA, full time (2 yrs/ 4 semesters)
MBA, part time (3 yrs/6 semesters)
Vision: Through strategic thinking, proactive and holistic approach, VNS Institute of Management would become an emblem and epitome of management education which co-generates growth in a way that moves the world. The mission of the school is to make ethically strong, morally tenacious, technically sound and environmentally alert citizens.
The foundation which started the institute Vidya Nikcten Samiti is managing four institutions of higher professional education in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Vaikunth Mehta National Inst. of Co-operative Mgmt.
University Road, Pune, Maharashtra-411007
Tel: 020-25537974-78
Fax:91-020-25537726
Director: Bhagwati Prasad
The institute was conceived as an intellectual nerve centre for the co-operative movement and has been functioning as the apex management training institute for over 50 years, catering to the management development, training, research and consultancy needs of various co-operative organisations, government departments and other national bodies.
Started as Co-operative training college in 1947 and was renamed latter as National Co-operative Training College.In 1962 it was further given its name as National Co-operative College and Research Institute (NCCRI). The Institute is functioning with a well-established infrastructure comprising the library, computer unit, auditorium, conference and seminar hall, jubilee hall, several classrooms and well equipped hostels. Faculty and staff housing complex with community centre is also located in excellent environment. One state-of-the-art conference hall will soon be ready as part of the institute.
The mission of VAMNICOM is to facilitate building cadres of professional managers to man key positions in the ever growing number of co-operatives through management development, training, education, research and consultancy. Towards this the institute started a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) and Diploma in Co-operative Business Management (DCBM) Programmes. The institute is also doing and disseminate the same through publications in addition to library retrieval and documentation services. The institute has a strong faculty base and it also draws heavily on the professionals in the co-operative sector and outside to provide state-of-the-art learning modules to its students. The institute faculty have also impressive record of publishing and teaching in international campuses which helps augment the intellectual capital of the institute.
Like any other leading business school, the institute has provided high quality infrastructure and class room facilities along with good IT and other infrastructure to make the learning experience real. It is also active in consulting and management training passing on the research and learning on the campus. The institute looks to future with renewed vigour based on the sharp revival in the co-operative movement which has also become professional.
Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communication Ltd. (TASMAC)
TASMAC House, TASMAC Road, Pune-411 014, Maharashtra, India
Tel: 020-56003871, 56003872, 2663245
Fax: 020-56003871
Director: Dr. Girl Dua
More and more management institutions are discovering the advantages of tieing up with the global business schools, and TASMAC, Pune is one entity which not only has a plethora of such tie-ups but it has also enabled as a resource provider to bringing global b-school education to Indian institutions an experience that it is able to impart to its student managers.
TASMAC was established in February 1990 in Bombay and moved its opera-1 tions to Pune in September 1991. What started of in 1990 from a single room study centre in a basement, is today a large professionally managed limited company. The TASMAC Group today has five divisions, five offices, campus in the two of the most important education cities of the country and over 150 counseling centres in nearly 50 cities in India and South Asia. TASMAC plans to set up 15 more offices in important cities in India within the next one year.
Vision: To be an internationally recognized and renowned institution providing quality education and educational services through its multiple campus, first in India, then South Asia and finally extending its boundaries to the rest of the world. Validation: TASMAC campus at Pune, Bangalore and Kolkata have been validated by University of Wales, the second largest and one of four federal universities in the UK, to offer MBA, MSC (information systems) and the BA (Hons) in business administration programmes.
TASMAC’s centre for distance education conducts a Master’s Diploma in Business Administration programme in eight specializations and has over 15 study centres across India to deliver these programmes. TASMAC is also the South Asia branch of the Association of Business Executives, UK and the role includes establishing and supporting study centres in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. An associate company - TASMAC Management Training Resources Pvt. Ltd. Handles all the soft skills training activities of the group. Since its inception in 1999. TMTR has conducted training programmes for over 75 corporations in Pune and Mumbai region. This company has tie-ups with Kimball Consulting/ITAP, Europe and Drives Consulting, UK amongst others. In 2003 TASMAC set up a Management Education Consultancy division to work with British Universities to ensure the quality and standards of higher education offered in India through partners of these universities.
Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SllB)
Symbiosis Infotech Campus, Plot No. 15, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjewadi,
Pune, Maharashtra-411 057
Tel: 020-22934314,17,18,19
Fax: 020-22934316
Director: Dr. Rajani R. Gupte
The Symbiosis Society was founded to create a community which helps fostering an interaction between the foreign and Indian students. The Symbiosis Institute of International Business (formerly Symbiosis Institute of Foreign Trade [SIFT]), an autonomous institute of the Symbiosis group of educational institutions, came into existence in 1992 to cater to the need to create managers who were equipped to understand the changes caused by the winds of globalization sweeping across the world. The SIIB campus is at Hinjewadi, Pune sharing space with renowned corporate giants such as Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant and Tata Technologies among others.
SIIB offers its flagship two-year, full-time, residential course of Masters Program in International Business (MPIB) in order to impart a world vision to its students through special course modules that incorporate every nuance of global business. Specializations in marketing, finance, supply chain management and human resources (2006 onwards) are offered in the second year. Through its recently introduced two-year, full-time, residential Masters Program in Agri-Business Management (MPABM) course, the institute seeks to meet the growing need for pro¬fessionals who can contribute to and engineer the agri-business revolution.
Symbiosis Institute of International Business has an excellent track record of 100 per cent placements since inception. The class of 2005 clocked a highest salary of Rs.13.1 lakh p.a. with an average of Rs.4.8 lakhs p.a. SIIB is accredited by the National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC). SIIB has a student exchange programme with the Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences, Germany which enables select students to spend one month in Europe, learning international business practice first hand and a faculty exchange programme with Oakland University, School of Business Administration, Michigan.
The five-acre, picturesque campus is wi-fi enabled, has an auditorium, indoor swimming pool, separate hostels for girls and boys and a world class academic block. The academic block, in addition to modern classrooms, comprises of stu¬dents’ committee room, a common room, discussion rooms and conference halls. The SIIB library is widely acknowledged as a one-stop information source for excellent reference material relating to international business as well as for general management.
Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT)
Plot 15, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjawadi, Pune, Maharashtra- 411 057
Tel: 020-22934308/09
Fax: 020-22934312
Director: Shaila Kagal
SCIT has entered the sixth year in 2005 and five batches of its students are doing well in an internationally competitive IT industry, an endorsement of the quality of the information technology institute which is part of the 32 institutes strong Symbiosis group of educational institutions based in Pune.
The mission of the school is to remain outstanding pro’viders of continually evolving, market-responsive IT education; to create proactive IT professionals dedicated to excellence who deliver innovative solutions that improve the performance of their organizations and the goal is to become a significant source of leading edge experiential knowledge in niche IT domains; to be the front line interface between academia, research and industry in advanced IT applications and to be the key enabler in fostering IT-related programmes that increase the change potential of the stakeholders SCIT lays equal importance on student’s development just as on academics in all its residential programmes. It builds these along with an interactive interface with the industry. SCIT provides these inputs for the total growth of a student along with the academics. People-skills are an integral part of the curriculum. Students develop skills on interpersonal relations, teambuilding, communications, etc, that act as a catalyst in moulding team players and leaders. These skills are imparted through workshops conducted in the curricula.
The institute is sensitive to the long hours and great stress the students would have to face in the IT industry and as such prepares them for this sort of discipline through a holistic learning programme.
“SCIT Resource Centre” provides opportunities to work on “live” projects offloaded by the industry. Students and Faculty interact with the client-companies to develop solutions. Nearly 50 speakers come to the campus every year from a range of top IT and knowledge companies. Every year National Seminar is organized by the institute.
The institute has a strong networking with the industry and its placement trackrecord has been impressive from the start.
Suryadatta Institute of Management
2074, Sadashiv Peth, Vijayanagar Colony, Pune, Maharashtra-411030
Tel: 020-24336000
Fax: 020-24330400
Director: Dr. Sanjay B. Chordiya
Pune, the valley of higher education in the country has a few star players and Suryadatta certainly is among them having won a place for itself among its peer by its sheer diversity and scorching growth spanning 14 institutes and scores of students in a short span of less than a decade. The institute started by Sanjay B. Chordiya belonging to a business family settled in Pune has remarkably built itself into a formidable educational enterprise in a short time on the belief of adding value through education. The institutes scattered around Pune are being aggregated into a most modern campus being built closer to the city.
Suryadatta believes in creating a path of knowledge driven by system, thoughts and striving backed by strong dose of intellectual capital. This is the system by which its students are being trained to understand the dynamics of change and leave a mark in the corporate world.
To understand the dynamics of change and reach the zenith of success, Suryadatta students are trained and equipped to take on the world and leave their mark in the corporate world. The institute offers under one roof multi-disciplinary skills (dual qualifications), talent, knowledge, professional skill development programmes and exposure to industry for effective utilization of time and develops a positive attitude which are the most valuable asset for making a successful career. It strives to develop multi-faceted professionals in diverse fields, through absorption of emerging technologies, to understand the rapidly changing needs of the complex global economy and to prepare their mindset to be confident, creative and proactive leaders. The institute has integrated information technology finely with education process equipping its students to become technology savvy managers of relevance.
The institution also believes in developing a sustainable network with high quality academicians and professionals in the corporate and social arena. The vision is to be a world class centre of excellence in learning and innovation driven by social sensitivity and state-of-the-art technology. The institute is well networked with the industry providing support to its students through course development and also summer and final placement assistance.
Smt. R D Gardi Dept. of Business Management
Saurashtra University, Rajkot-360005
Tel: 0281-2577461
Fax: 0281-2589640
Director: Dr. P. L. Chauhan
Gujarat is a nature home for business managers and institutions of management like the Saurashtra University affiliated department of management named after a legendry woman educationist, could comfortably add value to the available talent in the region. The MBA programme of RD Gardi is well received and highly respected in the region for its academic rigour and depth of content. The institute has been in constant touch with the industry to update its information base and it has been continuously fine tuning pedagogy to suit the emerging needs. The institute offers two-year MBA with specialization in areas of system finance and marketing.
The institute as adequate faculty strength with good academic background further augmenting the value of the school. The institute has good infrastructure facilities on campus with well equipped class rooms and computer facilities. The student and faculty have the benefit of access to good connectivity and computer usage. The library facilities of the school is large and adequate and it subscribes to ample journals for the student and faculty use.
The institute has been networking strongly with the industry which has helped its annual placement efforts which has been consistent and good. The institute has built on a strong vision which aligns it well with the ethical and moral responsiveness of the managers, something which the institute takes great pains to instill in the students through the academic and learning efforts.
The institute actively encourages the students to participate in outside seminars and it also equally supports the faculty in its efforts to acquire contemporary knowledge. Being a university school it has also the support from other faculty in enhancing its intellectual capital base. The future for the school is bright based on new opportunities and also its past record of performance.
SIES College of Management Studies (SIESCOMS)
Plot-IE, Sector-5, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400 706
Tel: 022-27708376
Fax: 022-27708379
Director: Dr. A. K. Sen Gupta
The Mumbai-based South India Education Society (SIES) which has promoted the management institute believes strongly in blending tradition with modernity. Keeping this in view the institute for management promoted by the society has achieved the enviable record of producing managers sensitive to the community needs as well as acliieving a high degree of professionalism. The institute has on its own merit rose to become one of the formidable institutes of management in the country counted among the best in its genre.
The institute envisions bringing about further change over the next three to five years blending and experimenting with a complete new course curriculum and teaching methodology which not only grooms students as managers also make them responsive citizens and leaders of reckoning in the society. Possibly that will mean shut from standard teaching of text books to more of experiential learning and hands-on experience with the real world. At the core of the above research is going to be the focus. When the institute talks about research, it is not about pure theoretical research but applied research depending on the needs of the corporate and society at large. The institute also wants to adopt a “Cafeteria approach” akin to some of the western universities whereby even the non-management subjects like music, arts and culture, etc, will be offered as a part of the elective. This would help the students to develop themselves into full-fledged human being with both scientific approach and artistic thinking. SIES hopes this will distinguish the school from other business schools.
The SIES College of Management Studies (SIESCOMS) was promoted in 1995 by the South Indiana Education Society (SIES), one of the oldest and value-based trusts in existence since 1932. During its 10 years of existence SIESCOMS has come to be known as one of the innovative and progressive business schools in the country. The flagship programmes of the institute include Masters in Management Studies (MMS), a two-year full-time management programme affiliated to the University of Mumbai, Masters in Computers Application (MCA), a three-year full-tune technology focused programme affiliated to the Mumbai University, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA), and a 21-month full-time autonomous management programme, Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Management (PGDPM), a 21-month full-time management programme on pharmaceutical management.
Shri Jaysukhlal Vadhar Inst of Mgmt. Studies -JVIMS
B.K.Shah Education Complex, Indira Marg, Jamnagar
Tel: 0288-2567102
Fax: 0288-2563885
Director: Shri Bipin Chandra
The thriving industrial town of Jamnagar, not far from Mumbai has spawned many educational institutes of relevance fueling the fast growth and development in this region. Among these JVIMS stands out for several reasons, “we do not believe paradigm shift, but we make it happen” is the teaser in the promo of the business school which is the credo towards which the institute works. The JVIMS vision is to look beyond and inculcate the vision and character in its students to meet with challenges with approaches which seeks to move beyond the obvious. The institute has pledged to encourage curiosity and creativity among its students and it provides the best atmosphere which can promote competitive spirit in those who are part of it, so that they can excel in this competitive era, where there is no finish line for excellence. In this maze of corporate entangles, the institute believes in providing the best corporate leadership which can affect the necessary strategies to thrive and prevail over the enigmas of globalization.
JVIMS believes a management school is not just a platform for management education, but it should be an embodiment of that management process, which aims at giving the best corporate captains to frame the rules of the global economy. JVIMS is convinced that in the years to come the challenge is neither from the technology nor from the resources but it is from the people, people and nothing except people. As such the institute endeavour to imbibe all those qualities in the students that make outstanding personalities who pose a challenge to others.
JVIMS has qualified, experienced, mature and dedicated faculty with diverse background, supplemented by a large pool of faculty from our sister Institutes. Over and above the faculty, we have a very healthy rapport with a large number of super specialists, practitioners and consultants from the corporate sector and management field who are there to guide the students with their vast knowledge
The focus and direction of the institute has resounded well with the industry which has responded by offering decent placements to the students and also supporting the institutes in its endeavours for curriculum updation and faculty research.
S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
Munshi Nagar, Dadabhai Road, Andheri (West), Mumbai-400058
Tel: 022-26237454
Fax: 022-26237042
Dean: Dr. M. L. Shrikant
The Mumbai based SP Jain belonging to the large group of education institutes led by Bharati Vidyapeeth of Pune is an unique institution of excellence which not only stands apart from its sister institutions of the founding group, but also one of its kind among all the best institutes of the country including even the Indian Institutes of Management, by way of its corporate recognition of its performance. The institute celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2006 has set itself apart right from the inception as a professional management institution with sensitivity towards society and one which practices what it teaches. Keeping this spirit alive has been its focus all these years. For instance, globalization is the credo of the Indian companies is what the business schools including SP Jain teach. But in the case of SPJIMR it also means practice of globalization by diversifying abroad. The institute has set up a branch in Dubai and is now looking Singapore for its next location. In Mumbai, it runs a Masters in IT programme in collaboration with Virginia Tech, USA. The institute is also exploring South East Asia, Africa and Central Europe for further campuses
The mission is to be a world class b-school which influences practice and fosters value-based material growth. To achieve this, the institute uses a judicious blend of western efficiency and eastern ethos. The institute runs a 2-year full time residential MBA programme in marketing finance, information management and operations. A separate Centre for Information Technology runs a post graduate programme in information technology and several ‘career change’ programmes in the areas of ERP, e-commerce etc. The Centre for FMB runs a post graduate programme for Family Managed Businesses. The Centre for DOCC (Development of Corporate Citizenship) runs a knowledge base for CSR(corporate social responsibility), conducts research and coordinates the social projects of the Institute. It conducts a unique programme on Political Governance for Women.
The Centre for Executive conducts management development programmes, in-company training and certificate programmes in project management. T runs a special Executive MBA (EMBA) programme in conjunction with leading companies in India
Research: Most of the research is ‘action research’ with a focus on influencing practice in the Indian context. The institute also runs a PhD programme in association with BITS Pilani.