All About PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) | The ultimate Guide

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What is PGDM?

  PGDM Stands for Post Graduate Diploma in Management. PGDM programme recognized and approved by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) that focuses on providing practical knowledge of management. And PGDM is a two year professional diploma course that provides students with all detailed knowledge about industry standards.

Why PGDM?

  The PGDM program is an extremely popular education option.The perfect thing about a PGDM degree is that it can get you very high salaries, especially if you are from a reputed business school. A PGDM degree can take you places and also allow you to grow vertically to the top position in a business organisation. PGDM admission is mostly based on entrance exams like MAT, CAT, XAT, and more exams.

When to do PGDM?

     PGDM Courses are made to upgrade the skills and meet the requirements of the industry by providing practical approaches. The right time to do a PGDM course depends on the individual.  

    A PGDM course after completion of graduation will not be as fruitful as a few years of experience. Major companies need 3-4 years of work experience and relevant skills to earn that hefty salary and for a managerial level job.

What is required for a PGDM Course?

    To do a PGDM course, it is necessary for the student to have some skills so that later the candidate does not face any problem while doing the PGDM course or after completing the PGDM course.

  For PGDM Course, it is necessary for the student to have these skills –

Communication skills 

After doing the PGDM course, when you go for the job, first of all your interview will be taken.

In such a situation, if you are not able to talk to the interviewer properly or explain your point to him, then you cannot get the job.

Therefore, to be a student of PGDM  your communication skills should be good.

Leadership skill

After the course of PGDM, you will get the job of manager mainly. In such a situation, many people will work under you.

To get the people working under you to work together with them, you must have leadership skills.

Strategic Thinking   

Strategic thinking refers to such thinking, which is systematic and reasonable. Such an idea that if used for the company. The company will benefit in the future.

Types of PGDM course

   There are 3 types of PGDM courses. Students can choose any one of these courses according to their convenience and budget –

1. Full time PGDM
2. Distance PGDM
3. Online PGDM

1. Full time PGDM course

           This is a 2 year course. You have to go to college everyday to do this. Its fees are much higher than distance and online PGDM. Top PGDM entrance exams include CAT, MAT, XAT, SNAP, NMAT, GMAT etc. Full time PGDM fees are around 4-24 LPA.

2. Distance PGDM course  

          Distance PGDM is a best and good option for the person who is doing a job and still wants to study PGDM. The lowest cost of buying books saves money that may help a person elsewhere. To get admission in distance PGDM, entrance exams has to be given and the fee for course ranges from 30,000 to 50,000/-   

3. Online PGDM

         It is a convenient way to pursue a PGDM course for those who run a hectic schedule at work and cannot allocate time separately. Admission is done on the  basis of merit in online PGDM. You can do this sitting at home. Online PGDM fees are around 10,000 to 15,000/-      

Entrance exam for PGDM

To take admission in a PGDM course in most of the colleges, you have to give an entrance exam-

• CAT
• MAT
• CMAT
• GMAT
• NMAT
• ATMA
• XAT

   CAT (Common Admission Test) and MAT (Management Aptitude Test) have been given importance in most of the colleges in India.

PGDM Syllabus

Different institutes have different PGDM syllabus. Still, if we talk about most colleges, then in the PGDM course, the student will get to see two types of subjects.

1. Core Subjects
2. Elective Subjects

Core subjects

 Core Subjects are compulsory subjects which the student cannot choose on his own. The list of Core Subjects in PGDM course in most of the colleges of India is as follows –

• Managerial Economics
• Finance & Accounting
• Organizational Behavior
• Research Methodology
• Business Ethics And Communication

Elective Subject  

Every year the student has to choose 2 Elective Subjects of his own free will i.e. in 2 years a total of 4 Elective Subjects have to be studied. Keeping in mind his interest and in which field he wants to work in future, the student chooses Elective Subjects.

Best PGDM Private Colleges 

• NMIMS University, Maharashtra
• NDIM Delhi – New Delhi Institute of Management
• XLRI Jamshedpur – XLRI-Xavier School of Management
• Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai
• SPJIMR, Mumbai
• Doon Business School, Dehradun
• PSGIM Coimbatore – PSG Institute of Management
• MDI Gurgaon – Management Development Institute
• ITM Navi Mumbai – ITM Business School
• Best PGDM Government Colleges/Institute
• IIMs
• Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management, Pune
• Assam Institute of Management, Guwahati
• IISWBM Kolkata
• Ch Charan Singh NIAM, Jaipur
• STEP – HBTI, Kanpur
• Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore
• AIMA Centre for Management Education, Delhi
• Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna

Top recruiters

If you have done the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) and you do not understand which company to apply for the job, then below are the names of some top companies in India in which if you get a job, then Your salary will be very good.

• Infosys Limited
• Wipro Technologies Ltd.
• IBM Corp
• Accenture
• Deloitte
• Cybage
• capgemini
• HCL Technologies Ltd.
• J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
• Computer Sciences Corporation
• Deutsche Bank
• Cognizant
• Tata Consultancy Services Limited