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Prof Tiwari said that portion an MoU was signed with IIT (ISM) Dhanbad successful October this year, a akin concern is already successful spot with IIT Patna. (File)
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Mumbai has announced a unsocial collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) successful Dhanbad and Patna, nether which the aboriginal volition connection an integrated dual-degree programme of 5 years that combines BTech with MBA. With an purpose to foster interdisciplinary education, the concern volition let prime engineering students from some these IITs to simultaneously prosecute absorption grade and get an MBA from IIM Mumbai.
The initiative, according to the institutes, is one-of-a-kind accidental for students. IIM Mumbai Director Prof Manoj Kumar Tiwari said, “It volition let nonstop introduction to IIM Mumbai for students wanting to prosecute MBA aft completion of BTech. Furthermore, it volition besides guarantee a excavation of students with a beardown method instauration coming for absorption acquisition astatine IIM Mumbai.”
According to the MoU, a maximum of 15 BTech students from each of the 2 IITs volition get this unsocial opportunity, which volition let them to get MBA grade from IIM Mumbai without having to look for the Common Admission Test (CAT), the mean process for admittance to immoderate IIM.
Engineering students having CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) which is higher than 7.5 astatine the extremity of the 2nd (II) semester successful their respective IITs volition beryllium eligible to registry for this. They volition person to implicit 12 instauration absorption courses successful their respective IITs betwixt semester III and VII and past participate IIM Mumbai successful semester VIII for completion of MBA grade for the remaining tenure of the five-year dual grade programme. Fee operation of the applicable world twelvemonth volition beryllium applicable for students joining IIM Mumbai done this alternate route.
Prof Tiwari said that portion an MoU was signed with IIT (ISM) Dhanbad successful October this year, a akin concern is already successful spot with IIT Patna. “There is large accent connected interdisciplinary learning successful the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. This inaugural fosters the aforesaid rule with a unsocial blend of method and absorption acquisition done this five-year dual grade programme.”
Students selected for this programme volition beryllium awarded BTech grade successful applicable subject on with Diploma successful Management from respective IITs and an MBA grade from IIM Mumbai. Interestingly, they volition enactment successful the placement process of IIM Mumbai aft completing the course.
Lauding the initiative, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad Director Prof Sukumar Mishra called it an charismatic statement for students. “Students entering IITs person already passed the JEE-Advanced exam. In bid to further prosecute absorption education, they are expected to wide CAT. This inaugural volition present connection a unsocial accidental to each BTech students funny to prosecute MBA, station engineering.” Prof Mishra said a survey with IIT (ISM) Dhanbad students besides showed a sizeable fig of them voting successful favour of specified an opportunity.
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