TAPMI Manipal creates Rs. 1 Crore Finance Lab: Boost to PGDM in BKFS

TAPMI Manipal is investing one crore rupees in creating the finance lab in its campus. The finance lab will be equipped with Bloomberg terminals and supported by data feed from BSE and NSE.

According to the Director of TAPMI Dr. R. C. Natarajan, the lab will provide to the students of the newly started PGDM in Banking and Financial Services (BKFS) hands on experience in Investments and Portfolio Management, Forecasting, Risk Management and Understanding of the Global Financial Management, up to date. The laboratory will also be useful in helping the students of the PGDM programme who specialize in finance in gaining relevant knowledge by experiential learning process. The objective is to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of finance. We want classroom lessons to be linked to actual markets he said.

World over, many of the top ranking Ivy business schools have installed state of the art finance lab in recent times. TAPMIs proposed finance lab is expected to make the learning process at the Institute to newer heights. With this, TAPMI expects to improve its industry interface with the finance sector multifold.

Dr. Natarajan envisages that TAPMIs students going through this process will be entrepreneurial, job-ready and have deeper understanding of the realities of financial markets and institutions better than the rest. He assured that the lab will be operational in the current academic year 2014-15.

TAPMI is a leading B School in Karnataka, reputed for its outcome based learning and faculty-student interaction. TAPMIs mission is to provide professional management capability. TAPMI Manipal commenced 2 year residential PG Program in 1984 which received recognition amongst the well-known industrial houses.

Apart from regular PGDM and PGDM-Healthcare(PGDM-HC) programmes with 420 and 60 seats respectively, this year TAPMI has launched PGDM-Banking and Financial services(PGDM-BKFS).This program would help all those aspiring to take up managerial positions in the Financial Services Industry. The PGDM - BKFS program is in demand as there is a high need for efficient BKFS professionals.

TAPMI and University of Dubai (UD) have also joined hands to offer 18 months MBA programme beginning from admission year 2014 with an intitial intake of 20 students. All the students pursuing this programme will have an assured campus placement. According to Dr Natarajan There is assured Placement for students of this programme and the students will be placed in suitable jobs in Dubai after the completion.

TAPMI saw an excellent placement season 2014 with more recruiters in BFSI sector. More than 8 students at the B school were offered placement package for Rs. 45 lakhs while the highest salary shot up to Rs.55 lakhs.
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