Sunday, March 29, 2009

IIITM-G over the Years:Academic Programs

The institute is conceived to pursue high quality research and postgraduate education, through Doctoral, Masters and five year Dual Degree integrated programmes. The curriculum is designed, and reviewed regularly in consultation with experts from academia and industry. Consistent with institute policy, the course curriculum is kept in a state of dynamic response to changing workplace needs. First academic programme PGDMIT (now MBA) started in July 1998 at the institute . Subsequently PGDIT (now M Tech.) in 1999, Ph.D. programme in July 2000 and 5-yr. Dual degree PG programme in July 2000 were started .

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
This programme is of two years duration and is meant for engineering graduates and distinguishes itself in providing the country with technology savvy managers who can cope up with the stringent demands made on them in today’s corporate world. With strong foundation in management concepts, domain knowledge of business functional areas like Marketing, Finance, Operations, Strategy coupled with understanding of the potential of information technology and its application for effective management and business solutions, the graduates of the programme are most sought after. The programme aims at developing following competencies:
• Managing Business in areas like Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Strategy and Operations;
• Providing Business Solutions in areas like e-Business, IT Strategy, ERP, SCM and CRM, providing them with a cutting edge in the area of management and technology;
• Integrating IT with Business and determine how best to position information technology in an organization for strategic competitive advantage.
Recognizing the need of market place and emerging policy frame four specialized MBA programmes are also offered in Infrastructure Management, IT Enabled Services Management, Public Services Management and e-Governance ,Non Formal Sector Management.

Master of Technology in IT (M. Tech. - IT)
The programme has been designed to cater to the needs of the work place in emerging Information technology areas. It synthesizes fundamental concepts and emerging IT technologies and management aspect needed in for industry professional.The programme offers specialization in: Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Multimedia System and VLSI. The program creates competencies in:

• Analyzing the needs of various IT products / services and guide them throughout their product life cycle;
• Integrating existing & new technologies for resource optimization;
• Developing state-of-the-art IT technologies, solutions and applications to give a competitive edge to the organizations.

5 Year Integrated MBA / M Tech (IT) Programme
The institute conceived and developed a new seamless PG education programme offering two degrees (undergraduate and postgraduate) after completion of ten semesters for the pass outs of 10+2 school The programme has already created a niche for itself and is extremely sought after by the very best students from all over the country . The programme structure gives flexibility to students to opt for either MBA or M Tech (IT) after s/he completes fundamental courses in Science, Humanities, Management, Computers and IT . The students are exposed to the needs of society and business through their placement in NGOs and Industries at different stages of the programme. The curriculum enables students to undertake independent research through projects and dissertation.

Doctoral Programme

Ph D programme is offered in all core areas of Information Technology and Management and inter-disciplinary areas such as CRM, SCM, ERP Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Decision and information sciences, Knowledge Management etc. The programme has attracted bright students having creativity and working professionals from industry, academic institutes and government departments. Eleven (11) candidates have already received their Ph D degrees and many are at various stages of their research work.
The research focus at the Institute is to innovate at the cutting technologies and business initiatives through in-depth integration of the two to render high tech solutions for business problems. Core research areas for IT are: Software Engineering, Network & Information Security, Human Centered Computing, Mobile Computing & Embedded System Design and for Management, the thrust areas are core business functions viz; marketing, finance, CRM, Business integration (SCM, ERP etc.), e- governance, Knowledge Management, Business Analytics, Risk Management, Quality Management & Technology Management.

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