S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai proposes to close its admission application process on the pre announced last date of December 13. No announcement whether application deadline will be extended has been made by SPJIMR Mumbai.
S P Jain is one of the premier and highly ranked B-schools in India and has remained a preferred MBA/PGDM destination for CAT aspirants. According to Dr Ranjan Banerjee Dean SPJIMR, “We are world class on certain dimensions but the fact that we are world class is a well-kept secret. SPJIMR student quality is clearly comparable to an IIM - A, B or C; not significantly better, not significantly worse”
The institute will accept CAT 2016, XAT 2017 and GMAT scores (test taken between January 1, 2014 onwards and December 31, 2016) to shortlist candidates for final admission round.
The PGDM 2017-19 admission application process at SPJIMR is open. SPJIMR Mumbai opened its online application process for admission to PGDM 2017-19 batch on October 1, 2016 and the last date to apply at SPJIMR is December 13, 2016. http://www.mbauniverse.com/mba-college.php?institute_id=423
S P Jain Mumbai has unique assessment criteria during the admission process and offering choice of specialization at the application stage add to its key strengths.
The PGDM programme at SPJIMR is ranked amongst the top 10 in the country by Outlook, Business Today and Business World and among the top-05 best B Schools in India by The Hindu Business Line - MBAUniverse.com Ranking 2015-16.
Eligibility criteria
Announcing the eligibility criteria to apply, SPJIMR clarifies, ‘Applicant must possess a strong and consistent academic background. Applicants must hold a Bachelor’s degree (10+2+3) with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA awarded in any discipline from a recognized university. Students in the final year of graduation can also apply. SPJIMR accepts CAT, XAT or GMAT. Work experience is not mandatory for this programme. Fresh graduates and those with up to 5 years of work experience can apply.’
Application fee
Applicants seeking admission to PGDM 2017-19 at SPJIMR, must complete and submit the application form online when the admission process opens on October 1, 2016.
Application fee is Rs. 1200/- (Rs One thousand two hundred only). The fee can be paid through credit card or net banking. http://www.spjimr.org/pgdm/admissions/india
75 percentile in each Section neededfor admission
SPJIMR Mumbai will accept CAT 2016, XAT 2017 and GMAT (test taken between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2016) scores to shortlist the candidates for final admission round.
Applicants who explore admission opportunity to PGDM 2017-19 batch in SPJIMR on the basis of CAT 2016 or XAT 2017 need to score minimum 85 overall and 75 sectional percentile in either of the 2 exams.
The qualifying scores based on GMAT are 75 each in Verbal & Quantitative and 6 score in Integrated Reasoning. Overall qualifying percentile is 85 for GMAT scores.
Total Intake
The flagship PGDM 2017-19 batch at SPJIMR will have an intake of 240 students for Indian Nationals. An additional 36 seats will be available for PIO/OCI and Foreign Nationals. Hence the total intake for session 2017-19 will be 276 seats.
Fee structure
The two year fee of the PGDM batch 2016-18 programme was Rs.14.60 lakhs. The fee will be subject to revision in accordance with the policy of the B-school. This fee includes tuition fee, basic hostel/ accommodation and global fast track. It does not include cost of travel, boarding, lodging, visa, insurance and incidentals for global fast track and placement fees.
Placements at S P Jain Mumbai
Placement 2016 at SPJIMR has recorded 70 recruiters making 230 offers to 222 students seeking campus placement. Top 10 recruiters at SPJIMR include Deloitte & HCL making 15 offers each followed by KPMG making 10 offers; Amazon with 9 offers; PRTM with 8 offers; GE, Asian Paints & Future Group making 7 offers each; P&G and Mondelez making 6 offers each.
Highest placement package at SPJIMR in Placement 2016 stood at Rs.37 lakhs and the average salary rose to Rs. 19 lakhs.
In contrast to salary packages offered to various IIMs, JBIMS and other top B-schools, SPJIMR has recorded higher compensation packages. A quick comparison follows
| Institute |
Average Placement package 2016 |
|
IIM Indore |
15.67 |
|
IIM Kozhikode |
17.1 |
|
JBIMS Mumbai |
18.13 |
|
SPJIMR Mumbai |
19.00 |
S P Jain & IIMs: Fee comparison
SPJIMR Mumbai has lowest fee as compared to IIMs, MDI, XLRI and other top B-schools. The two year fee of the PGDM batch 2016-18 programme was Rs.14.60 lakhs. The fee will be subject to revision in accordance with the policy of the B-school. This fee includes tuition fee, basic hostel/ accommodation and global fast track.
The fee structure for IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore goes in the range of Rs. 19 lakhs to 19.5 lakhs and IIM Kozhikode needs Rs. 16 lakhs; MDI Gurgaon has a fee structure of Rs.18.86 lakhs, the fee structure at IMI Delhi is Rs. 15.41 lakhs. http://www.mbauniverse.com/mba-college.php?institute_id=423
Choice of 2 specializations at application stage
According to S P Jain Mumbai ‘Applicants to PGDM admission 2017-19 batch at SPJIMR need to opt for two specializations at the time of submitting application. Selecting 2 options at the application stage means that the aspirants who are not short listed for the first option will be considered for the second option. The outcome of the first option will have no bearing on the process for considering the applicant for the second option.’
PGDM at SPJIMR offers 4 specializations – Finance, Information Management, Marketing, Operations. The participants are required to choose their specialisation at the application stage itself. A choice of specialization at the application stage at SPJIMR helps to achieve segmentation at the time of admission based on differentiated need of recruiting organizations. Participants also develop a clear and sharp focus based on their academic background and skills.
S P Jain Mumbai has also increased the flexibility to switch specialisations after the first year, and offers minor specializations. It helps the student to combine a marketing major with an analytics minor.
Introduces Industry relevant curriculum
A core course on Design Thinking has now been introduced across all programs. The Design Thinking movement at SPJIMR was initiated by a workshop by Srikant Datar of HBS.
According to Dr Ranjan Banerjee, Dean SPJIMR “We built on his material, created context specificity, and significantly deepened the insighting component. This has been extremely well appreciated by corporate India, and we are getting a lot of positive reaction from recruiters. We have further strengthened our much appreciated non classroom initiatives, and have deepened engagement and reflection across initiatives.”
International Exposure at SPJIMR
SPJIMR students have the option of undertaking foreign field visits that are facilitated by SPJIMR, after completion of the 18-month programme. In the past, students have visited countries including South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Bangkok as part of the FIV tours.
All the SPJIMR full time course students do a month of advanced specialization courses at top universities in the US like Cornell, CMU. A student project guided by SPJIMR faculty won the best project prize in the Global Network of Microeconomics of Competitiveness , and one of the senior faculty received the prize from Michael Porter at HBS.
Low CAT cut offs for candidates with excellent profile
Candidates with excellent academic profile and work experience will stand fair chances of admission at SPJIMR. The profiles are scored and the applicants will be sorted into two groups: Profile based and Profile-cum-score based.
Profile based shortlisting process of candidates for admission to PGDM 2017-19 batch is proposed to be completed even before the declaration of CAT 2016/XAT 2017 exam result. The selection process for admission to PGDM 2017-19 batch will assess not only the intellectual readiness in terms of academics but also emotional readiness, work experience, extracurricular activities and aptitude for and befitting the institute’s mission of value based leadership. Dr Bindu Kulkarni Admission Chair at S P jain said “We will declare shortlists based on profile and profile cum score. The applicants who are shortlisted on the basis of their profiles are also expected to meet the qualifying scores in at least one of the entrance exams.”
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