The Return on Investment - Yeah, Because Money Matters
If you’ll compare the average fees of all Tier-1 business school in the country, XLRI PGDM (GM) will emerge as one of the most economic programs, the reason being that the XLRI General Management isn’t an executive program wherein you have to pay GST in addition to the fees, and being the Jesuit institution, XLRI isn’t in a profit-oriented education business - they charge you what they really require to maintain such a humongous infrastructure which we all were awed by once we reached the campus.
The Most Important Ingredient - The XL Culture
When you travel down the lane of CH Area towards XLRI and you get the first glimpse of XLRI signage at the gate, that moment will take you in awe. There is something different about the vibes of this campus. You don’t need to be very formal with the Professors, neither are there very stringent rules and regulations that limit the way you think, or the way you express. This way, XL gives you new wings to fly high each day.
About the Program
If I have to explain the GM program in a simple line, then I would just say that it’s not easy at all. XLRI has been known for its academic rigour but that is the beauty of this program. After surviving seven terms in one year, you’ll be ready for any future challenges and those 11:59:59 deadlines will make sure that you don’t miss any such deadlines in your professional career.
Apart from academics, an MBA is also about peer to peer learning and that is the most beautiful thing about this program. When you share a classroom with such vast experienced people from various sectors and with a plethora of knowledge - from steel to mass media, from IT to Oil & Gas - it enhances your perspective about everything.
Concluding words
PGDM (GM), along with PGDM (BM) and PGDM (HRM) is a flagship MBA program at XLRI with International accreditations such as AACSB & AMBA, which means this degree holds its mighty value in overseas countries as well. But let’s be honest: in this type of one year MBA program, you come with a baggage of experience on your CV that you cannot deny. So expecting a complete domain change, say from IT to an FMCG company, isn’t completely impossible but it’s also not a cake-walk, as it would be in a two-year MBA program.
But being taught by some of the most distinguished faculty in the country, be it Prof. Venugopal’s way of explaining the complex marketing concepts with jokes and humor or be it Prof. Sengupta’s class like watching a Broadway performance full of accounting melodrama, every class is unique in its own way because the pedagogy which has been adopted at XLRI gives faculty that freedom to sail their own boat. Living in the campus which never sleeps and having the late night chai at XL Dhaba or those 4 AM cravings for the Bishu Da’s Aloo Paratha.
Each and everything about XLRI will change you, knowingly or unknowingly, in some way until you realize the same and say, no matter what happens, this place will always remain XL meri jaan!
Comments
Indu Bhushan
I could feel, while reading it. Awesome work Rahul.
5 Jun 2019, 01.02 PM
Ashly Thampi
Well summarized!!
5 Jun 2019, 04.47 PM
Neha Agarwal
Amazingly written..
6 Jun 2019, 03.21 PM