Campus Talk: In a first in Maharashtra, this Mumbai college has launched Bachelors in Luxury Brand and Retail Management course

The people offers specialisations successful luxury sectors specified arsenic gems and jewellery, apparel and fashion, quality and wellness among all. Students having passed their Class XII exams are eligible to use for this people but volition person to unafraid admittance done the entranceway process which includes tests and interviews.

This is among the archetypal fewer world initiatives taken by the assemblage aft coming retired of the Mumbai University’s ambit. Principal of the college, Dr Shrinivas Dhure, explained, “The thought is to connection manufacture related courses successful bid to summation employability of our students.”

Dhure added, “This was conveniently imaginable due to the fact that we are present portion of a abstracted assemblage with less colleges to govern, which is making it much effective. Thanks to the world freedom, we are capable to connection specified a unsocial course. The people is already seeing a precocious demand.”

Dhure said the people began with 30 seats and during the admissions process, 15 much seats were added considering the immense demand. An authoritative of the assemblage confirmed admissions from applicants crossed the country.

The LBRM people is simply a effect of an inaugural by 2002 alumnus of the assemblage Dhaval Gandhi who present runs a palmy coaching institute. As idiosyncratic from the tract of academics, Gandhi wanted to springiness backmost to his Alma Mater successful a unsocial mode and decided to connection his expertise to his assemblage and jointly founded The School of Luxury Retail Management astatine the Sydenham College.

The people includes a modern schoolroom and different sections created with enactment from alumni donations. Gandhi said the people has galore manufacture stalwarts from luxury brands arsenic teachers for maestro classes and to guarantee bully manufacture vulnerability to students.

Gandhi is besides associated with the schoolhouse arsenic the main mentor to oversee its functioning. He said, “It is 1 happening to supply fiscal enactment to one’s Alma Mater but considering my inheritance successful academics, I wanted to instrumentality it up and supply a unsocial accidental to the students successful Mumbai. The luxury marketplace successful India is increasing but determination is nary trained manpower to enactment successful this expanding manufacture sector. Currently, students person to beryllium connected specified niche courses offered abroad.”