Nirma University, Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
Inspired by its Founder Shri Karsanbhai K. Patel, the Nirma Education and Research Foundation, first established Nirma Institute of Technology in 1995, followed by Nirma Institute of Management in 1996 to meet growing demand for professional managers in the country. In a short span of three years the Institute has emerged as a leading self-finance Institute. Besides its two-year full time, and three-year part-time, Post-Graduate Programme in Management, the Institute also offers a doctoral level Fellow Programme in Management. The institute has signed an agreement with the New Mexico State University for exchange programmes.

[ EARLIER KNOWN AS NIRMA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ]
SARKHEJ-GANDHINAGAR HIGHWAY, POST: CHANDLODIA,
VIA: GOTA, AHMEDABAD-382481, GUJARAT
PHONE: (02717) 241900-05, FAX: (02717) 241916
EMAIL: admissions@imnu.ac.in WEBSITE: www.imnu.ac.in

Dr. Anup K Singh
Director
Ph.D.

COURSE STRUCTURE

CAMPUS & ACADEMIC FACILITIES

Course 1	Organizational Behaviour-I	Written Analysis & Communication-II
Course 2	Written Analysis & Communication-I	Financial Management-I
Course 3	Computer Skills in Management	Marketing Management-I
Course 4	Managerial Economics	Economic Environment & Policy-I
Course 5	Social Project	Managerial Accounting-II
Course 6	Managerial Accounting-I	Quantitative Management-II
Course 7	Quantitative Management-I	Organizational Behaviour-II
Course 8	Operations Management-I	Operations Research

First Year - Term 1

First Year - Term 2

Accommodation/Hostel Facilities : The PGDM is a residential programme and all the students are expected to stay in the hostel. Permission to stay outside may be granted in exceptional cases. The Institute has hostel facilities for boys & girls separately. The boys hostel is located in the campus whereas the girls hostel is located in the city, about 12-km from the campus. Both hostels comprise spacious and well furnished rooms and permit excellent live-in facilities to the students. The hostel also provides facilities for sports & other recreational activities. The Institute provides free transport to the girls hostel residents to be on the campus till late evening encouraging them to make effective use of campus facilities such as the computer centre and the library. A separate hostel for girls in the campus is under planning. It is expected that the hostel may be available for the girl students of 2000 batch. The hostel residents are expected to adhere to a set of hostel rules and regulations. Violation of hostel rules may result in withdrawal of hostel facility or even suspension from the programme.

Recreation :

Catering/Mess : The hostel mess is operated by a private contractor. Only vegetarian food is served in the mess.

Health and Welfare :

Computing : Computing facilities for the students include labs equipped with 80 computers connected to the Windows NT and Linux-based local area network. This network also connects the faculty computers for information sharing and communication between the students and the faculty. There is an online setup for the electronic bulletin board, schedule, instant messaging, etc. Students also have access to the Internet. The Linux server is set up as a proxy server for the Internet and E-mailing, whereas Windows NT server is acting as the file and print server. The computers at the lab are also connected to the library server to explore information resources available in the library

Library : The LRC is one of the key academic facilities provided to augment the learning of students of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Management. It is fact developing into a leading business library comparable to the best in the country. The library includes a wide range of management literature, provides a extensive access to leading national and international business periodicals and an impressive collection of business databases in addition to corporate annual reports. Issues of the Harvard Business Review from 1921 form an important part of the collection.

The LRC is the first in the country to subscribe to the EBSCO's Business Source Elite, a database (Internet and DVD Version) of 929 international periodicals in full text format and 1423 periodicals in full text format and 1423 periodicals whose articles are abstracted. Vans Electronic Library - a CD database of 12 leading Indian business dailies and magazines like The Economic Times, Business Line, Business India, Business Today, Business Week and so on, Business India on CD, and Prowess - a financial software of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy from the Electronic Information section in the Library.

The library is fully computerized with an eight terminal LAN operating on specialized library software Alice for Windows. The user-friendly package facilitates issue and return of books, online access to the catalogue, and reservation of books. The Library has adopted the latest information technologies like CD, DVD, Multimedia Kits, Barcode Scanners, Text and Graphic Scanner and so on.

Providing a larger access to business and industry information, the resource centre is a member of the British Library - Ahmedabad and shares resources with other leading libraries of Ahmedabad.

Name	Qualification / Information
Dr. Anup K Singh	(Director) Ph.D. Degree from the University of Allahabad and his Post- Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan, Ann Harbor
Dr. Abhijit Bhattacharya	Ph.D. in Economics (Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow) M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow) Area : Enterpreneurship
Mr. Bharat C. Dalal	M.B.A. (Stanford) I.T.P. (Harvard) Area : Marketing and Business Policy
Mr. Devashish Das Gupta	M.B.M. (Dayalbagh University) PGDMS (Bhavans Bombay) Area : Marketing
Ms. Keren Priyadarshini	Fellow (IIM Ahmedabad) (in progress) M.A. Economics (D.A.V., Jalandhar) Area : Economics
Dr.M. Mallikarjun	Ph.D. in Economics (Aligarh Muslim University) M.Phil, in Economics (Aligarh Muslim University) M.A. in Economics (Aligarh Muslim University) Area : Economics
Dr. Manipadma Datta	FCS/Fellow ICSI Area : Finance, Accounting and Business Legislations
MS. Nina Muncherji	M.A. in Phychology (Gujarat University) Diploma in Training and Development (ISTD, New Delhi) Area : Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Mr. Prabhat Kumar Yadav	M.B.A in Marketing (R.D. University) B.E. Electrical (Vikram University) Area : Marketing and Communication
Dr. Pramod Verma	Ph.D. in Economics (University of Manchester, England) M.A. in Economics (Delhi School of Economics) Area : Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
Mr. S. Ram Kumar	PGDM (IIM, Ahmedabad) M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics (MS University, Baroda) Area : Marketing
Dr. K.S. Srinivasa Rao	Ph.D in Statistics (Andhra University) M.Phil in Statistics M.Sc. in Statistics Area : Quantitative Management

ACADEMIC STAFF

A three-year bachelor's degree or its equivalent in any discipline recognised by the Association of Indian Universities/ AICTE as eligible for Post-Graduate studies with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks is required. Candidates appearing in the final examination of a bachelor's degree can also apply.

Applicants for the part-time programme must have atleast two years of work experience at a supervisory level in addition to the above eligibility requirements.

ELIGIBILITY

Step 1	Application Form Prospective candidates are required to fill in the NIM application form. To obtain the application form and prospectus, applicants should send a request along with a demand draft for Rs.700/- favouring Nirma Institute of Management, payable at Ahmedabad to: The Programme Manager, Nirma Institute of Management, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Post: Chandlodia, Via: Gota, Ahmedabad-382 481. Application forms may also be collected personally from the Institute.
Step 2	Written Test Applicants for the full-time programme are required to appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the IIMs. Applicants for the part-time programme are required to appear in a written test to be conducted by the Institute in Ahmedabad..
Step 3	Group Discussion and Personal Interview Candidates Short-listed on the basis of their performance in the written test will be called for a group discussion and personal interview to be conducted in selected cities. The final selection to the programme is based on the candidate's academic achievements, work experience performance in the written test, group discussion, and personal interview.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

FEE STRUCTURE

PLACEMENTS

Alembic Glass Industries Ltd.	Amtrex - Hitachi Appliances	Arvind Mills Ltd.	Atul Ltd.
Birla At&T Communications Ltd.	Bundy India Ltd.	Cannon (I) Ltd.	Cincinnati
Citicorp Credit Services (I) Ltd.	Core Healthcare Ltd.	DDE ORG Systems Ltd.	Electotherm India
GCMMF	Gujarat Informatics Ltd.	Gujarat Industrial Investment Corporation	Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd.
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd.	Housing Development Finance Corporation	Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd.	Indo Gulf Corporation Ltd. (Birla Copper)
Infotech Consultants	Kalupar Commercial Co-operative Bank Ltd.	Modi Xerox Ltd.	NIIT Ltd.
Nirma Consumer Care Ltd.	Nirma Ltd.	Origin Ltd.	Patel Airtemp Ltd.
Pepsico Ltd.	RPG Enterprises Ltd.	RPG Paging Services Ltd.	Saurashtra Cement Ltd.
SBS Organics Pvt. Ltd.	Shree Rama Multitech Ltd.	Swan Foods Pvt. Ltd.	Tata Consultancy Services
Vadilal Enterprises Ltd.

STUDENTS TESTIMONIALS

G. Ramchandran Nair.
The Programme Manager.
Nirma University, Institute of Management
SARKHEJ-GANDHINAGAR HIGHWAY, POST: CHANDLODIA
VIA: GOTA, AHMEDABAD-382481, GUJARAT
PHONE: (02717) 241900-05, FAX: (02717) 241916
EMAIL: admissions@imnu.ac.in
WEBSITE: www.imnu.ac.in

Completed application forms should reach the office latest by: November 30, 2007

CONTACT INFORMATION

Governing Body Members

First Year - Term 3

Fee payable to the School per year is as follows :

Full-time tuition fee per trimester - Rs. 20,000/-

Part-time tuition fee per semester- Rs. 15,000/-

NRIs/NRI-sponsored candidates- US $10,000/- per programme

Hostel fees per trimester- Rs.3500/-
Boarding, books, reading material, electricity use in the hostel room, etc., will be charged separately as per the actuals. The tuition fee and the hostel fee for the second year may be revised upward by about 10%.

Governing Body
Shri Karsanbhai K. Patel	Chairman, Nirma Limited
Shri Shrenikbhai Kasturbhai Lalbhai	Industrialist & Educationist
Shri B.J. Diwan	Former Chief Justice Of Gujarat High Court
Shri Hiralal H. Bhagwati	Industrialist & Educationist
Shri Ambubhai M. Patel	Finance Professional and Educationist
Shri Rajendra D. Shah	Practicing Chartered Accountant
Shri Hiren K. Patel	Chairman, Nirma Credit and Capital Limited
Advisory Council
Shri Hasmukhbhai Shah Chairman	Chairman, Gujarat Gas Ltd. Former Chairman, IPCL
Shri Shrenikbhai Kasturbhai Lalbhai	Leading Industrialist and Educationist Ahmedabad
Shri Deepak Banker	Former President Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), New Delhi
Shri S.K. Birla	Chairman, VXL India Limited, Calcutta
Shri Darbari Sheth	Chairman Emeritus Tata Chemicals Limited, Mumbai
Shri K.D. Agrawal	Former Chairman and Managing Director IFCI, New Delhi
Prof. S.K. Khanna	Former Chairman All India Council for Technical Education New Delhi
Shri Ambubhai M.Patel	Finance Professional and Educationist Ahmedabad
Prof. K.J. Parmar	Director, Technical Education Gujarat State, Gandhinagar
Prof. N.V. Vasani	Advisor to the Chief Minister Govt. of Gujarat (Science & Technology) Former Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University
Shri A.P. Sarvan (IAS Retd)	Former Chief Secretary, Assam
Shri. Hiren K.Patel	Chairman, Nirma Credit and Capital Limited
Dr. Anup K Singh	Director, Nirma Institute of Management

Name	Company/Designation	Testimonials
Rakesh Mishra	Vice President - Hitchusi Auto Limited
Ramesh C.	Marketing Ex. - International Petrochem Industries Limited
Chetan Pandya	zzz

Course 1	Written Analysis & Communication-III	indianmba
Course 2	Business Strategy-I
Course 3	Economic Environment & Policy-II
Course 4	Marketing Management-II
Course 5	Financial Management-II
Course 6	Statistical Tools for Data Analysis
Course 7	Human Resource Management
Course 8	Operations Management-II
Second Year Specialisation Courses	FINANCE Indian Financial System, Mergers, Acq uisitions and Corporate Restructuring, Investment and Portfolio Management, Corporate Tax Planning, International Finance, Project Planning, Select Topics in Finance, Project on Finance MARKETING Industrial Marketing, Advertising and Sales Promotion, Sales and Distribution Management, Services Marketing, Marketing Mechanics, Digital Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Contemporary Issues in Marketing, Project on Marketing HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT People Management and Leadership HR Planning, Recruitment, Selection & Induction, Human Resource Development, Organizational Development & HRM, Management of Conflict and Co-operation, Compensation Systems, Labour Law, Strategic HR Management, International HR Management, HR Workshop and Project INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IT in Business, Introduction to Programming, Database Management Systems, Business Data Networks, Management Information Systems, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming Systems, IT Project INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT International Trade, International Marketing, International Finance, International HR Management, International Logistics, International Business Law, Export-Import Management, Project on International Business GENERAL ELECTIVES Business Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship, Business Ethics, Personal Finance, Managerial Oral Communication, Economic and Business Forecasting, Infrastructure Development and Financing, Environmental Management, Personality Development and Business Etiquette, Small Business Management, Knowledge Management COMPULSORY COURSES Business Strategy-II, Legal Aspects of Business, Industrial Analysis