Asian School of Business (ASB) - Admission to Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) 2006
The latest addition to South Indian’s knowledge hub destined to be India’s Leading Business Schools
Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM)
The latest and a prestigious addition to the knowledge hub of South India is Asian School of Business (ASB) at Technopark, Trivandrum, promoted with the vision of “creating component and caring management professionals with the passion to lead”.
The winning differentiators of ASB are the outstanding faculty, cutting-edge curriculum, a Board whose collective wisdom few, if any, Business School can match and, most of all a driving passion to get everything right.
Exceptional Faculty:
ASB has been able to assemble an exceptional faculty, the key strength of any Business School, when you consider that it is just into its second academic year. The greatest advantage of ASB is that, they have the option to pick and choose the most appropriate faculty from within and outside the country for each core subject. A visit to the School site, www.asb.edu.in does validate this point.
Well-Designed Curriculum:
What is equally important is that management teachers and practicing professionals with extensive experience have designed the curriculum of the School. The academic programmes of the School are being led by prof. M.N.V. Nair, who was the first Dean at IIM (B) and Prof. S. Jagadish, the Director of ASB, who spent over 30 years as a senior member of the faculty at IIM (B).
According to Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan, (IIT-M, MS-Syracuse, MBA- Stanford) of ASB, who also teaches at IIM (B) “the curriculum content that ASB offers is world-Class.”
Impeccable Credentials:
ASB is actively guided and governed by a group of outstanding professionals of impeccable credentials. The Board is chaired by Mr. S. Ramadorai, CEO of India’s biggest IT company (TCS). Other members are Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan, co-Founder Dy. MD and COO, Infosys Technologies Ltd.; Prof. Prakash G. Apte, Director of IIM Bangalore; prof Samuel Paul, former Director IIM (A); Mr. Arun M. Kumar Partner KPMG, USA; Mr. Raj Nair, Chairman, Avalon Consulting; Prof. M.R Rao, Dean, Indian School of Business Hyderabad; Prof, M.N.V. Nair; Mr. George, M. Thomas; Prof. S. Jagadish and Mr. Vijaya Ragaven, former CEO, Technopark.
Courses to Create Professionals the Industry Needs Most:
The two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) is the flagship course of ASB which provides a firm general management foundation as good as the best management foundation as good as the best management education in this part of the world. Currently, the first batch of 30 students is nearing the end of the first year programme. In addition to core full-time faculty, practising professionals and academicians from leading institutions in India and USA have Delivered courses and offered seminars. For this batch, there has been 100 per cent paid internship with leading national and multinational companies in India and abroad, a rare honour for management school.
The first batch was selected on the basis of a test (similar to the Common Admission Test of IIMs.) Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI). For the 2006-08 full-time PGPM batch, academic excellence and aptitude for a management career will be the prime consideration.
Currently, the School has acquired 16 acres of land on the outskirts of the city to accommodate academic blocks, hostels and other support services. By end 2007 this faculty will be commissioned.
Looking ahead, Mr. George Thomas, the Prime patron, said “the goal is that ASB should evolve itself into one of the finest Business Schools in this region and should be on top of the mind or prospective students / executives looking for quality management education”.
For admission details please contact:
Phone: 0471 5579001/2
Email: Wilma@asb.edu.in
Website: www.asb.edu.in