Overview

Gear up to shape businesses around the world with a unique blend of courses which transcends are traditional boundaries of management education. The Integrated MBA programme enables the student to pursue a dual degree- BBA and MBA and prepares them to embark on the journey of management leadership right after School. The programme offers flexible learning paths with specializations and interim exit paths with BBA or BBA(Hons.) tailored to meet the unique needs and aspirations of the students in their learning journey.

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What You'll Learn

Discover what this programme has in store for you.

The program's curriculum is distinctively designed to encompass courses from Technology, Analytics, Humanities, Communications, Digital competencies along with different domains Business Management. This holistic approach to education results in the development of well-rounded individuals who are not only capable managers but also skilled business leaders.

  • Business Management: Master the functioning of an organisation, as you discover the key aspects of marketing, finance, human resources, operations, analytics and supply chain.
  • Liberal Arts: It’s no secret that better efficiency and holistic development of an organisation are a result of a complete understanding of Humanities, Technology, and Legal aspects. This programme helps you excel at all of them so that you’re able to communicate proficiently, and bring about the change in businesses as you intended to.
  • Analytics and Digital Competency: The IMBA programme specifically focuses on teaching students the art of data driven decision making and digital competency. This allows them to manage any organisation in the modern business era.

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Programme at a Glance

Unparalleled managerial capability. Competitive business acumen. Results that matter. Brace yourself to take the business world by storm right after you pass out of school.

Programme Highlights

• Holistic course curriculum with immersive pedagogy and internships with industry interface.

• Ability enhancement through immersion programmes and projects.

• Methodical exposure to domains of management along with science & technology, commerce, humanities and liberal arts.

• Exposure to multiple industrial sectors.

BBA [3 years]

The three years curriculum, apart from the specific management domain related courses, includes various courses from different areas such as technology, commerce, humanities and liberal arts to improve students’ understanding of key aspects in business management.
At the end of third year, a student can choose any of the following career path
a. Continue for another two Years and pursue MBA
b. Continue for one more year and pursue BBA (Hons.)
c. Exit after third year after taking BBA Degree

BBA (Hons.) [4 years]

This four-year career path is curated for students who wishes to pursue a research-oriented education in their chosen area of specialization in an UG Level. Along with the all-inclusive BBA curriculum, the students pursuing this career path are exposed to advanced specialized courses coupled with the knowledge and skills required for undertaking research. The students can choose any one of the offered specializations.

Integrated MBA [3+2 years]

This programme is divided into two phases: BBA and MBA. On successful completion of five years a student will be entitled to get a BBA as well as an MBA degree. The second phase of the programme will be offered in line with the MBA programme at NICMAR Business School and the students can choose to specialize in an area of specializations as per their choice.

Infrastructure Management

Business Analytics

Supply Chain Management

Management Consulting

People and Communications

Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies

Financial Strategies

Courses

  • BBA Phase
  • MBA Phase
  • BBA (Hons.) Path

Exploration

During this stage, students are exposed to the fundamental components of management and its prerequisites. The students are encouraged to collaborate successfully to engage in group work. They cultivate their passions and start relating them to bigger societal challenges.

They will also be exposed to the interfaces of technology, humanities, communication, quantitative methods in the business world to set the basic foundation of managerial education.

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  • Foundations of Mathematics
  • Communicative English
  • Information and Communication Technology
  • Indian Economy
  • Principles of Management
  • Principles of Accounting
  • Principles of Sociology
  • Fundamentals of Visual Design
  • Spreadsheet Modelling
  • Performing Arts-I
  • English Literature
  • Foundations of Statistical Methods
  • Microeconomics
  • Business Communication
  • Database Management with MS Access
  • Environmental Studies
  • Psychology
  • Web Development
  • Fundamentals of Computer Programming
  • Performing Arts-II
  • Content Development and Blogging

Ideation

In this stage the students are introduced to the various domains of management and exposed to various managerial issues of the business world. They shall not only learn the traditional ways of addressing managerial issues but also encouraged to develop solutions using creativity. In this stage, the instructor will stimulate student’s interest and promote group engagement by integrating active learning approaches.

The curriculum for this stage comprises courses of various domains of management along with courses aimed at developing the communication skills and digital competency of the students.

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  • Principles of Organisation Behaviour
  • Principles of Finance
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Legal Aspects of Business
  • Calculus for Business
  • Business History of India
  • Technology Disruptors in IR
  • Foreign Language
  • Computer Programming using Python
  • Community Service
  • Inferential Statistical Methods
  • Sales Management
  • Principles of Operations Management
  • Macroeconomics
  • Financial Markets and Institutions
  • Banking
  • Legal Aspects of Real Estate and Infrastructure
  • Modern Indian Language
  • Presentation Skills Workshop

Incubation

In this stage, the students acquire cognitive knowledge, and retrospect their previous learning experiences to foster problem solving aptitude and gain deeper understanding of the concepts for application in the business world.

The students are exposed to different developments in technological developments, contemporary issues along with different domain specific case studies.

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  • Written Analysis and Communication
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Principles of Human Resource Management
  • Services Marketing
  • Emerging Trends in Marketing
  • Universal Human Values and Professional Ethics
  • Fundamentals of AI and ML
  • Business Intelligence
  • Credit Management
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Marketing Communication
  • ML using Python
  • Business Process Management and Design
  • Case Analysis: Marketing
  • Case Analysis: Finance
  • Case Analysis: Organisation Behaviour and HRM
  • Case Analysis: Operations Management
  • Internship
  • Mini Project Work
  • Business Immersion (Field Visits)

Immersion

This learning pathway is designed for students who after completion of the BBA phase, wishes to pursue a specialized research-oriented education. In this phase the students are equipped with the tools and methods to undertake research. Along with that they also gain proficiency in their chosen field of specialization.

The specializations offered at this phase are: Infrastructure Management; Business Analytics; People and Communications; Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies Financial Strategies.

Specialization Elective Baskets:

Infrastructure Management: Project and Infrastructure Finance|| Infrastructure Development and Management|| Project Analytics|| Project Formulation and Appraisal|| Project Risk Management|| Project Procurement and Contracts

Business Analytics: Project Analytics|| Advances in Operation Systems|| Big Data Analytics|| Advanced Digital Marketing|| Customer Relationship Management|| HR Analytics

People and Communications: Talent Acquisition and Management|| Strategic Performance and Compensation Management|| Organisation Development and Change|| HR Analytics|| Employee Relations and Labour Laws|| Learning and Development|| Customer Relationship Management

Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies: B2B Marketing|| Integrated Marketing Communications|| Brand Management|| Advanced Digital Marketing|| Big Data Analytics

Financial Strategies: Project and Infrastructure Finance|| Big Data Analytics|| Security Analysis and Portfolio Management|| Financial Derivatives|| Project Formulation and Appraisal|| Business Valuation and Corporate Restructuring

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  • Operations Research
  • Business Research Methods
  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling
  • Indian Knowledge System
  • Strategic Management
  • Project Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Project Work
  • Internship

Exploration Stage II

During this stage, students are exposed to the fundamental components of management and learn the abilities required to collaborate successfully to engage in group work. They cultivate their passions and start relating them to bigger societal challenges.

They will also be equipped with knowledge and skills in statistics, principles of management, web-based development, business communication, accounting, psychology, and foreign language, along with exposure to a mini project to gain practical knowledge.

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  • Business Statistics

    This course is an introduction to statistical concepts which are used in understanding various facets of business data.

  • Environmental Studies

    The course covers the process of environmental impact assessment and design and delivery of self-sustained processes in handling business as a means of facilitating the contribution to achieve the goal of sustainable development.

  • Principles of Management

    The Principles of Management Course aims to introduce the participants to fundamentals of management and to impart in the participants key concepts, principles and historical evolution of management thought.

  • Web Based Development:

    The objectives of the course are to prepare students to develop web site projects right from writing various scripting code in HTML, to hosting it on a web server.

  • Business Communication

    This course provides the participants with an understanding of the concept, process, types, barriers and principles of effective business communication.

  • Accounting

    This course develops student understanding of financial accounting and cost accounting concepts along with transaction recording and preparation of financial statements.

  • Introduction to Psychology

    It provides a foundation for the students to be able to analyse human behaviour from a psychological perspective.

  • Foreign Language-I

    This course will enable the students to have a basic understanding of a Foreign Language of their choice. This will help in understanding different cultures and also make a mark when interacting with foreign clients.

  • Mini Project-I

    The objective of the mini project seminar is to develop a broad understanding of the classroom concepts, to provide students opportunity for experiential learning and to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

Ideation Stage I

The primary goal of the Ideation stage is to develop solutions using creativity and innovation while developing the necessary domain knowledge. In this stage, the instructor will stimulate student’s interest and promote group engagement by integrating active learning approaches. The students learn to solve the problem, find fresh perspectives on it and come up with creative solutions.

In this semester the students are exposed to varied aspects of business management namely creative writing, design, microeconomics, marketing, finance, computer programming, database management, self-development and are also involved in community services.

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  • English Literature

    This beginner level course is designed with the aim to help participants, who may not be familiar with the different genres of literature and may not have the necessary skills to understand and critically appreciate the major genres such as short story, novel, poetry and drama. This develops an understanding of different cultures which enables holistic development.

  • Creative Writing

    The objective of the course is to allow students to pursue courses on creativity including public speaking, presentations, advertisements, marketing documents, reports and proposals.

  • Creative Design and Visual Analysis

    This interdisciplinary course brings forth design awareness regarding consumer products and visual communication.

  • Microeconomics

    This course develops student understanding of the importance of the laws of demand and supply, competition and other firm behaviour from the perspective of managerial decision making.

  • Marketing Management

    This course develops student understanding of the fundamentals of the concepts of marketing a product or service and the role of marketing in business.

  • Financial Management

    Students are familiarised with the principles and techniques of financial decision making and trained to analyse, evaluate and develop analytical abilities not only for managing finances of an organisation but also personal finances.

  • Computer Programming

    This course covers the concepts of structured programming using the C programming language.

  • Relational Database Management Systems

    The course equips the students to work with databases for various business applications.

  • Community Services

    The course on Community Service shall provide students with opportunities to interact with and serve individuals, families, or community through community service while being aligned with the chosen non-profit agency/non-governmental organisation.

  • Self-Development

    This course aims to help students to improve their talents, explore potential, and build a strong foundation for employability and better career management.

Ideation Stage II

The primary goal of the Ideation stage is to develop solutions using creativity and innovation. In this stage, the instructor will stimulate student’s interest and promote group engagement by integrating active learning approaches. The students learn to solve the problem, find fresh perspectives on it and come up with creative solutions.

In this semester the students are sensitised to different aspects related to management and arts namely organisational behaviour, consumer behaviour, operations management, yoga, macroeconomics, physical sciences, performance arts, and min-project.

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  • Consumer Behaviour

    An efficient managerial decision-making needs detailed understanding of individuals, groups, or organisations and all the activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services.

  • Organisational Behaviour

    The students are exposed to the conceptual foundations, historical evolution, challenges of an organisation and the roles, functions and skills of managers.

  • Operations Management

    An organisation needs to administer business practices to create the highest level of efficiency. This course familiarises the students with various business processes which aid in improving efficiency and quality.

  • Information and Communications Technology

    A technical and fundamental knowledge of hardware, software, network, internet, cyber security and web technologies along with hands-on creating and developing the systems and models are taught in this course.

  • Yoga

    This course gives information about different yoga asanas. Yoga is believed to help in managing stress and improve thinking ability along with many other benefits.

  • Macroeconomics

    This course focuses on the performance of economies, inflation, interest and foreign exchange rates, balance of payments.

  • Physical Sciences

    This interdisciplinary course involves an overview of the branches of science that involve the application of physics and chemistry.

  • Mini Project – II

    The objective of the mini project seminar is to develop a broad understanding of the classroom concepts, to provide students opportunity for experiential learning and to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

  • Performing Arts-II

    Students will be exposed to various activities to enable them to express their thoughts and feelings.

Incubation Stage I

In this stage, the students acquire cognitive knowledge, and retrospect their previous learning experiences to foster creative problem solving.

The students gain deeper understanding in the following areas - communication, legal aspects of business, financial institutions, human resource management, foreign language, entrepreneurship, cinema and professional ethics.

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  • Written Analysis and Communication

    This is a skill-based course that exposes the participants to a variety of managerial situations. It focuses on developing logical thinking, and communication skills in writing.

  • Legal Aspects of Business – I

    The course deals with the legal aspect of business and essential requirements for its formation and execution.

  • Financial Institutions and Markets

    This course provides introduction to the Indian financial system, markets and evaluation of the institutions, instruments and participants involved in the industry.

  • Human Resource Management

    Human Resource Management is a key foundation to understanding the people resources of an organisation while appreciating the critical need for following the organisational systems created for retaining and engaging a high performing workforce for the organisation as well as the equity and fairness in dealing with them.

  • Foreign Language-II

    This course will enable the students to have a basic understanding of a Foreign Language of their choice. This will help in understanding different cultures and also make a mark when interacting with foreign clients. The student can choose to pursue an advanced course of Foreign Language-I or may take up any other language.

  • Entrepreneurship

    The course is designed to introduce participants to the principles of entrepreneurship and the processes involved in setting up and operating a new enterprise.

  • Critique of Cinema

    This course attempts to explore film cultures of the world that far exceed the popular representation of just one kind of cinema. This activity broadens thinking perspectives and opens the mind to different layers of a thought process.

  • Professional Ethics

    An understanding of ethical principles and reasoning is necessary for every profession in their respective fields. This course enables a management student to do a critical scrutiny of their profession from a moral and ethical standpoint.

  • Public Speaking

    The objective of the course is to introduce students to fundamental principles and skill of public speaking.

Incubation Stage II

In this stage, the students acquire cognitive knowledge, and will get a platform to integrate previous learning experiences. This will foster creative problem solving with a focus on different business sectors.

Additionally, the students will apply the classroom learning in the organisation through internship.

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  • Sector Studies

    This course will give budding managers a sound understanding of some of the major sectors like Manufacturing, Banking & Financial Services, Real Estate, Construction, Hospitality, Health Care, IT and ITES. They may choose any three.

  • Engineering Sciences

    The main purpose of this course is to provide the student with application of mechanics of particles and rigid bodies, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism. This course will enable students to have the basic ideas that are necessary for a manager to understand the functioning of technology driven sectors like manufacturing, automobile, etc.

  • Internship I

    The students will be working with business organisations to apply their classroom learning in real business scenarios.

Illumination Stage I

In this stage, the students would be able to gain insights and probable solutions to the complex business problems. The students have the freedom to specialise in one of the three verticals namely - business methods, real estate management, and information technology.

Note:

* These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Information Technology

** These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Real Estate Management

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  • International Business Management

    The objective of this course is to enable students to analyse and understand the opportunities and challenges that companies face when expanding their activities internationally and when dealing with international competitors in their home markets.

  • Technology and Society*

    The course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Technology and Society to the students. The interface between science, technology and society will be looked into from a range of theoretical perspectives such as social shaping of technology, social constructionist and actor network theoretical perspectives.

  • Real Estate and Urban Infrastructure Principles**

    The objective of the course is to introduce the students to the real estate sector as well as understand and analyse various principles of the real estate field.

  • Operations Research

    The course equips the students with operations research concepts which are aimed at optimal utilisation of the organisational resources.

  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling and Data Visualisation

    This course provides expertise in Advanced Excel, Power BI and Tableau, covering concepts and tutorials.

  • Introduction to Critical Thinking and Logic

    This course helps students to understand and acquaint themselves with logical structures of the primary classes of arguments used in the everyday contexts of life.

  • Data Structures*

    This course develops student understanding on the concepts of data structures and algorithm design methods and its impact on the performance of computer programs.

  • Essentials of Architecture and Interior Design**

    The course will introduce the students to architectural and interior design concepts for various types of real estates.

  • Strategic Management

    The course prepares the student to remember and understand the fundamental terms and concepts of Strategic Management. Further the student should be able to apply these concepts in the companies and organisations while assuming leadership roles as per the industry expectations.

  • Marketing Research

    This course develops student understanding of how the Marketing Research process is to be carried out. It will also cover data sources, scales, questionnaire design, sampling, survey method, data analysis & interpretation and preparation of report and some applications.

  • Software Architecture and Engineering

    This course develops students’ basic knowledge from the area of software architecture. Students should be familiar with the main concepts/definitions and have basic skills in designing and analysing software architectures.

  • Self-development and Managerial Skills

    The aim of the course is to provide an essential foundation to hone the skills and behaviours required for becoming an outstanding manager in all organisations.

  • Social Immersion Programme

    The objective of the course is to provide students with opportunities to research about identified social problems, to help them understand and appreciate underlying causes of identified research problems and to develop feasible solutions with measurable positive social impact.

  • Project Seminar

    The objective of the project seminar is to develop a broad understanding of the classroom concepts, to provide students opportunity for experiential learning and to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

Illumination Stage II

In this stage, the students would be able to provide insights and probable solutions to the complex business problems. The students have the freedom to specialise in one of the three verticals: business methods, real estate management, and information technology.

Note:

* These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Information Technology

** These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Real Estate Management

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  • Project Management

    This course teaches the fundamental aspects associated with project management. It addresses the theory and practices involved in project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closure. It also provides exposure to project planning using Microsoft Project software.

  • Business Development

    This course introduces participants with the concept of business development and techniques and processes of identifying new businesses. It helps the participants understand how business development efforts of an organisation relate to its business environment.

  • Product Management

    This course develops student understanding of the macro-perspective and the concepts of product management.

  • Cloud Infrastructure Development*

    This course develops student understanding on cloud computing and enabling technologies in the present day’s business system. This course will help students to learn and describe different service delivery models in cloud computing, virtualization, cloud infrastructure management and security.

  • Real Estate Development and Practices**

    To familiarise students with basic development concepts governing real estate development projects, covering aspects from concept, sanctions, project mix decisions and sale.

  • Intellectual Property Rights

    This course introduces to students basic content and structure of IPR and acquaints with various forms of IPRs.

  • Cyber Laws*

    This course introduces to students basic content and structure of cyber Laws and acquaints with various forms of cyber laws.

  • Business and Property Law**

    The course deals with the legal aspects of property law such as the law of transfer of property, law of mortgage and other relevant laws.

  • Procurement Management

    This course develops students' understanding of the processes that organisations use to plan, organise, and control the tangible components and services in their manufacturing process or in project execution.

  • Fixed Income Markets

    This course develops student understanding of the relevant knowledge of fixed income instruments and interest rate models.

  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality*

    The course aim is to offer students a broad and comprehensive understanding of this rapidly evolving and commercially viable field of augmented reality, virtual reality, as well as to prepare them to work on highly integrative immersive applications, immersive social platforms, cross-disciplinary academic research projects, and cutting-edge medical, construction, real-estate, industrial, and manufacturing R&D.

  • Real Estate Investments**

    This course develops student understanding of real estate investment regulators in the Indian market.

  • Digital Business Transformations

    The traditional business strategies are evolving with the advent of digital revolution. The power of data driven decision making and planning strategies based on the modern information technology tools are changing the ways of business operations.

  • Legal Aspects of Business – II

    The Course deals with the legal aspect of business and essential requirements for its formation and execution. It specifies the procedure for registration of Intellectual property rights and provision in case of its Infringement.

  • Immersion Programme (Literature & Beyond)

    This immersion programme attempts to give students a basic understanding of literature and other cultural works, as well as linguistics, and creative writing.

  • Honours Project

    This course develops a broad understanding of the classroom concepts and provides students opportunity for experiential learning.

Illumination Stage I

In the Year IV of the programme, the students will be immersed in the curriculum of the MBA programme of NICMAR Business School.

In this stage, the students would be able to gain insights about the advanced management tools, processes and methods and learn ways to address complex managerial issues.
The existing curriculum of the MBA programme at NICMAR Business School is detailed in the following section.

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  • Operations Research
  • Business Research Methods
  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling
  • Indian Knowledge System
  • Strategic Management
  • Project Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Project Work
  • Internship
  • Business Communication
  • Community Service/Rural Immersion
  • Indian Knowledge System (IKS)

Illumination Stage II

In this stage, the students would be able to gain insights about the advanced management tools, processes and methods and learn ways to address complex managerial issues. Further, the students are introduced to the foundation courses of their chosen area of specialization.

The existing curriculum of the MBA programme at NICMAR Business School is detailed in the following section.

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  • Operations Research
  • Business Research Methods
  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling
  • Indian Knowledge System
  • Strategic Management
  • Project Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Project Work
  • Internship
  • Electives (Any Three from below)
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Project Procurement and Contracts
  • Project Formulation and Appraisal
  • Learning and Development
  • Digital Marketing
  • Banking & Financial Services

Realisation Stage III

The students are exposed to specialised courses in their chosen area of specialization. They need to take six elective courses pertaining to the area of specialization or allied areas as identified by the Board of Studies of NICMAR Business School.

In this semester the students are exposed to varied aspects of business management namely creative writing, design, microeconomics, marketing, finance, computer programming, database management, self-development and are also involved in community services.

Specialization Elective Courses:

Infrastructure Management: Infrastructure Development and Management || Project and Infrastructure Finance || Building Information Modelling for InfrastructureII Project Analytics

Business Analytics: Big Data Analytics|| Project Analytics|| Advanced Operations Research|| AI, ML and Knowledge Base

Supply Chain Management: Big Data Analytics|| Supply Chain and Operations Strategy||Logistics Management|| Advanced Operations Research

Management Consulting: Big Data Analytics|| Supply Chain and Operations Strategy|| B2B Marketing|| Project and Infrastructure Finance

People and Communications: Talent Acquisition and Management|| Strategic Performance and Compensation Management|| HR Analytics|| Organisation Development and Change

Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies: Big Data Analytics|| B2B Marketing|| Brand Management|| Integrated Marketing Communications

Financial Strategies: Security Analysis and Portfolio Management|| Project and Infrastructure Finance|| Big Data Analytics|| Project Analytics

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  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Entrepreneurship

Realisation Stage II

The students are exposed to specialised courses in their chosen area of specialization. They need to take four elective courses pertaining to the area of specialization and allied areas as identified by the Board of Studies of NICMAR Business School.

Specialization Elective Courses

Infrastructure Management: Risk Management|| Leadership, Influence and Power|| Advances in Operations Systems

Business Analytics: Risk Management|| Customer Relationship Management|| Fintech

Supply Chain Management: Risk Management|| Advances in Operations Systems|| Fintech

Management Consulting: Risk Management|| Advances in Operations Systems|| Employee Relations and Labour Laws

People and Communications: Leadership, Influence and Power|| Customer Relationship Management|| Employee Relations and Labour Laws

Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies: Leadership, Influence and Power|| Customer Relationship Management|| Advanced Digital Marketing

Financial Strategies: Risk Management|| Fintech|| Financial Derivatives

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  • Business Ethics
  • Business Valuation and Corporate Restructuring

Incubation Stage I

In this stage, the students acquire cognitive knowledge, and retrospect their previous learning experiences to foster creative problem solving.

The students gain deeper understanding in the following areas - communication, legal aspects of business, financial institutions, human resource management, foreign language, entrepreneurship, cinema and professional ethics.

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  • Written Analysis and Communication

    This is a skill-based course that exposes the participants to a variety of managerial situations. It focuses on developing logical thinking, and communication skills in writing.

  • Legal Aspects of Business – I

    The course deals with the legal aspect of business and essential requirements for its formation and execution.

  • Financial Institutions and Markets

    This course provides introduction to the Indian financial system, markets and evaluation of the institutions, instruments and participants involved in the industry.

  • Human Resource Management

    Human Resource Management is a key foundation to understanding the people resources of an organisation while appreciating the critical need for following the organisational systems created for retaining and engaging a high performing workforce for the organisation as well as the equity and fairness in dealing with them.

  • Foreign Language-II

    This course will enable the students to have a basic understanding of a Foreign Language of their choice. This will help in understanding different cultures and also make a mark when interacting with foreign clients. The student can choose to pursue an advanced course of Foreign Language-I or may take up any other language.

  • Entrepreneurship

    The course is designed to introduce participants to the principles of entrepreneurship and the processes involved in setting up and operating a new enterprise.

  • Critique of Cinema

    This course attempts to explore film cultures of the world that far exceed the popular representation of just one kind of cinema. This activity broadens thinking perspectives and opens the mind to different layers of a thought process.

  • Professional Ethics

    An understanding of ethical principles and reasoning is necessary for every profession in their respective fields. This course enables a management student to do a critical scrutiny of their profession from a moral and ethical standpoint.

  • Public Speaking

    The objective of the course is to introduce students to fundamental principles and skill of public speaking.

Incubation Stage II

In this stage, the students acquire cognitive knowledge, and will get a platform to integrate previous learning experiences. This will foster creative problem solving with a focus on different business sectors.

Additionally, the students will apply the classroom learning in the organisation through internship.

Apply Now
  • Sector Studies

    This course will give budding managers a sound understanding of some of the major sectors like Manufacturing, Banking & Financial Services, Real Estate, Construction, Hospitality, Health Care, IT and ITES. They may choose any three.

  • Engineering Sciences

    The main purpose of this course is to provide the student with application of mechanics of particles and rigid bodies, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism. This course will enable students to have the basic ideas that are necessary for a manager to understand the functioning of technology driven sectors like manufacturing, automobile, etc.

  • Internship I

    The students will be working with business organisations to apply their classroom learning in real business scenarios.

Illumination Stage I

In this stage, the students would be able to gain insights and probable solutions to the complex business problems. The students have the freedom to specialise in one of the three verticals namely - business methods, real estate management, and information technology.

Note:

* These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Information Technology

** These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Real Estate Management

Apply Now
  • International Business Management

    The objective of this course is to enable students to analyse and understand the opportunities and challenges that companies face when expanding their activities internationally and when dealing with international competitors in their home markets.

  • Technology and Society*

    The course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Technology and Society to the students. The interface between science, technology and society will be looked into from a range of theoretical perspectives such as social shaping of technology, social constructionist and actor network theoretical perspectives.

  • Real Estate and Urban Infrastructure Principles**

    The objective of the course is to introduce the students to the real estate sector as well as understand and analyse various principles of the real estate field.

  • Operations Research

    The course equips the students with operations research concepts which are aimed at optimal utilisation of the organisational resources.

  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling and Data Visualisation

    This course provides expertise in Advanced Excel, Power BI and Tableau, covering concepts and tutorials.

  • Introduction to Critical Thinking and Logic

    This course helps students to understand and acquaint themselves with logical structures of the primary classes of arguments used in the everyday contexts of life.

  • Data Structures*

    This course develops student understanding on the concepts of data structures and algorithm design methods and its impact on the performance of computer programs.

  • Essentials of Architecture and Interior Design**

    The course will introduce the students to architectural and interior design concepts for various types of real estates.

  • Strategic Management

    The course prepares the student to remember and understand the fundamental terms and concepts of Strategic Management. Further the student should be able to apply these concepts in the companies and organisations while assuming leadership roles as per the industry expectations.

  • Marketing Research

    This course develops student understanding of how the Marketing Research process is to be carried out. It will also cover data sources, scales, questionnaire design, sampling, survey method, data analysis & interpretation and preparation of report and some applications.

  • Software Architecture and Engineering

    This course develops students’ basic knowledge from the area of software architecture. Students should be familiar with the main concepts/definitions and have basic skills in designing and analysing software architectures.

  • Self-development and Managerial Skills

    The aim of the course is to provide an essential foundation to hone the skills and behaviours required for becoming an outstanding manager in all organisations.

  • Social Immersion Programme

    The objective of the course is to provide students with opportunities to research about identified social problems, to help them understand and appreciate underlying causes of identified research problems and to develop feasible solutions with measurable positive social impact.

  • Project Seminar

    The objective of the project seminar is to develop a broad understanding of the classroom concepts, to provide students opportunity for experiential learning and to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

Illumination Stage II

In this stage, the students would be able to provide insights and probable solutions to the complex business problems. The students have the freedom to specialise in one of the three verticals: business methods, real estate management, and information technology.

Note:

* These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Information Technology

** These courses are mandatory for students who wish to specialise in Real Estate Management

Apply Now
  • Project Management

    This course teaches the fundamental aspects associated with project management. It addresses the theory and practices involved in project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closure. It also provides exposure to project planning using Microsoft Project software.

  • Business Development

    This course introduces participants with the concept of business development and techniques and processes of identifying new businesses. It helps the participants understand how business development efforts of an organisation relate to its business environment.

  • Product Management

    This course develops student understanding of the macro-perspective and the concepts of product management.

  • Cloud Infrastructure Development*

    This course develops student understanding on cloud computing and enabling technologies in the present day’s business system. This course will help students to learn and describe different service delivery models in cloud computing, virtualization, cloud infrastructure management and security.

  • Real Estate Development and Practices**

    To familiarise students with basic development concepts governing real estate development projects, covering aspects from concept, sanctions, project mix decisions and sale.

  • Intellectual Property Rights

    This course introduces to students basic content and structure of IPR and acquaints with various forms of IPRs.

  • Cyber Laws*

    This course introduces to students basic content and structure of cyber Laws and acquaints with various forms of cyber laws.

  • Business and Property Law**

    The course deals with the legal aspects of property law such as the law of transfer of property, law of mortgage and other relevant laws.

  • Procurement Management

    This course develops students' understanding of the processes that organisations use to plan, organise, and control the tangible components and services in their manufacturing process or in project execution.

  • Fixed Income Markets

    This course develops student understanding of the relevant knowledge of fixed income instruments and interest rate models.

  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality*

    The course aim is to offer students a broad and comprehensive understanding of this rapidly evolving and commercially viable field of augmented reality, virtual reality, as well as to prepare them to work on highly integrative immersive applications, immersive social platforms, cross-disciplinary academic research projects, and cutting-edge medical, construction, real-estate, industrial, and manufacturing R&D.

  • Real Estate Investments**

    This course develops student understanding of real estate investment regulators in the Indian market.

  • Digital Business Transformations

    The traditional business strategies are evolving with the advent of digital revolution. The power of data driven decision making and planning strategies based on the modern information technology tools are changing the ways of business operations.

  • Legal Aspects of Business – II

    The Course deals with the legal aspect of business and essential requirements for its formation and execution. It specifies the procedure for registration of Intellectual property rights and provision in case of its Infringement.

  • Immersion Programme (Literature & Beyond)

    This immersion programme attempts to give students a basic understanding of literature and other cultural works, as well as linguistics, and creative writing.

  • Honours Project

    This course develops a broad understanding of the classroom concepts and provides students opportunity for experiential learning.

Realisation Stage I

In the realisation stage, the students have the freedom to choose from seven specialisations namely - business analytics, marketing analytics & digital strategies, infrastructure management, financial strategies, people & communications, supply chain management, and management consulting. The students are encouraged to select a stream of their specialisation and get exposure to advanced knowledge related to it.

Ten electives in total must be taken across Semester IX & X. To graduate with a specific specialisation, students need to take at least six electives from the corresponding elective basket. Alongside, they get an opportunity to learn and apply their skills and knowledge in immersion programmes, internship, and project work.

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  • Business Immersion Programme

    The course on Business Immersion shall act as an extension to students' understanding of entrepreneurship and business sense.

  • Project Seminar

    The objective of the project seminar is to develop a broad understanding of the classroom concepts, to provide students opportunity for experiential learning and to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

  • Internship II

    The main purpose of this course is to train students in specific domains of management such as finance, human resources, marketing, operations etc. The training being on the job, students are also expected to perform certain regular duties as may be felt fit by the respective organisation.

  • Elective courses

    Students have to choose six elective courses from the following specialisations - Management Consulting, Business Analytics, People and Communications, Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies, Financial Strategies, Supply Chain Management, and Infrastructure Management.

Realisation Stage II

The realisation stage helps the students to launch their career in seven domain specialisations namely - business analytics, marketing analytics & digital strategies, infrastructure management, financial strategies, people & communications, supply chain management, and management consulting.

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  • Project

    This course develops a broad understanding of the classroom concepts and provides students opportunity for experiential learning. Further, this course will help students to analyse business situations and provide solutions.

  • Elective courses

    Students have to choose four elective courses from the following specialisations - Management Consulting, Business Analytics, People and Communications, Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies, Financial Strategies, Supply Chain Management, and Infrastructure Management.

An enriching environment

Class Profile

Join a diverse community of learners who have passed their Class XII Board exams,
and are ready to transform the business world with their ideas and hard work.

  • 18+

    Average age

  • 10

    Average Courses Each Semester

  • 21

    Average Credits Per Semester

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Our leader

Dr. Dipayan Roy
Head, IMBA

With a doctorate in Financial Economics from IIM, Indore, and a Master’s degree in Computational Finance from Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, Dipayan has over eight years of academic experience, and is passionate about imparting quality education.

Prior to joining NICMAR, he was associated with the Symbiosis International University. He has published several research papers in various journals of repute, and has received many awards for his research work at various academic conferences. He has successfully undertaken multiple consultancy projects related to feasibility assessment studies.

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Admission Requirements

  • Age: Candidate should have been born on or after August 01, 2004 (5 years of relaxation to the candidates from reserved category will be given i.e. born on or after August 01, 1999).
  • Qualifying Exam: Candidate should have passed Standard XII/HSC or equivalent examination in 2022, 2023 or appearing in 2024. Note: Candidates who have appeared for class XII examination and are awaiting their final results will be provisionally admitted to the programme on the basis of their performance in the selection process. These candidates need to ensure that the pending marksheets are submitted within one month of the commencement of programme, failing which the admission will stand cancelled.
  • Minimum Percentage (%) of marks: Candidate should have Minimum 50% in standard X/SSC (45% for the candidates from reserved category) and should have passed standard XII/HSC or equivalent examinations with a Minimum of 50% marks (45% for the candidates from reserved category).

Your trajectory

Career opportunities

Placement assistance and career guidance for students graduating with MBA degree in Year V or BBA (Hons.) in Year IV.
Placement assistance for the students for internships

As an MBA graduate from NICMAR Business School, you can pursue the following careers:

Category Career
Business Analytics - Data Engineer
- Big Data Analyst
- Business Intelligence Expert
- Risk Management Executive
- Management Consultant
Marketing Analytics and Digital Strategies - Brand Manager
- Digital Marketing Expert
- Sales Manager
- Advertising Professional
- Management Consultant
Infrastructure Management - Project Manager
- Planning & Design Professional
- Contracts Manager
- Infrastructure Financing Professional
- Management Consultant
People and Communication - HR Manager
- Corporate Communications Manager
- Public Relations Expert
- Training & Development Professional
- Management Consultant
Financial Strategies - Equity Analyst
- Investment Banker
- FinTech Expert
- Corporate Finance Professional
- Management Consultant
Supply Chain Management - Logistics Analyst
- Procurement and Purchasing Manager
- OpTech expert
- Distribution Manager
- Management Consultant

FAQs

  • How are the placement prospects of the IMBA program?

    NICMAR University Pune is proud of the industry connections that we’ve built and nurtured over the last 40 years, which has allowed us to invite only the best and most sought-after recruiters for our students. We are visited by over 200 companies for on-campus placements. Even though IMBA is our freshest program, you can rest assured that you can leverage the legacy and will be given top-notch placement assistance during the course of your final year and interim internships.

  • What kind of financial aid can you help with?

    NICMAR University Pune is proud of the industry connections that we’ve built and nurtured over the last 40 years, which has allowed us to invite only the best and most sought-after recruiters for our students. We are visited by over 200 companies for on-campus placements. Even though IMBA is our freshest program, you can rest assured that you can leverage the legacy and will be given top-notch placement assistance during the course of your final year and interim internships.

  • Is an internship a part of this program? What kind of support can I expect?

    Of course! The IMBA curriculum includes mandatory internships at the end of Sem IV (Year II) and Sem VIII (year 4) and an optional internship at the end of Sem VI (Year III). The University shall assist the students in this process. What’s more, the internships offered at the end of Sem VIII may also result in attractive PPO (Pre-placement Offer).

  • Is there any compulsory subject I need to take in Class XII to be eligible for IMBA?

    Absolutely not! Students from any stream and with any choice of subjects can apply for IMBA. The program’s courses are taught from the foundation level and from the perspective of a managerial requirement. So, as long as you have passed Class XII, you’re good to go.

  • Is there any restriction on the number of subjects studied in Class XII for students from boards other than CBSE or state boards?

    No, students from all boards are eligible to apply to the IMBA program, irrespective of the number of subjects opted for in Class XII.

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News & Updates

NICMAR University is Recognised as State Private University by UGC.

NICMAR University Pune Act (L. C. Bill No. Of 2022) was passed by Maharashtra State Government on 16th March, 2022 and appeared in “Maharashtra Government Gazette” on 12th May 2022 (Mah. Act No. XXXVI of 2022).