IIM Udaipur Invites Applications for Digital Enterprise Management

IIM Udaipur Invites Applications for India’s only One Year Full Time MBA in Digital Enterprise Management

Eligible experienced professionals can apply with CAT or GMAT or GRE Score

Indian Institute of Management Udaipur is inviting applications for the second batch of its path-breaking full-time one-year MBA program in Digital Enterprise Management (DEM).

The DEM program is India’s only one-year, full-time MBA program for experienced professionals who wish to build or enhance their managerial career in the digital domain. It is aimed at equipping managers and leaders to work efficiently in the fast-changing and emerging digital business enterprises where conventional management concepts and leadership styles are found wanting. The DEM program develops a talent for digital business leadership and entrepreneurship.

This is a full-time, residential program, and admission is through the GMAT/GRE/CAT (2018 onward) exams. The DEM program requires candidates to be holding a graduate degree from a recognized University and 3+ years of work experience.

Announcing the opening of the admission season, Prof. Janat Shah, Director, IIM Udaipur said, “The DEM program aims at developing Business Leaders who will drive the Digital Economy. It is the first MBA in the country in which students focus on learning how to manage digital systems and how to use those systems to make data-driven decisions.” He further mentioned that students would learn from academicians and industry practitioners through case studies, simulations, frameworks, and lab projects that will prepare them to face the challenges of the emerging digital world.

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates with a minimum of 10+2 years of school education and a minimum of 3 years of university education with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any discipline

• Valid GMAT or GRE score, or CAT score (taken in 2018 or later)

• Minimum full-time work experience of 36 months as of March 31, 2021

Applicants will be shortlisted based on the eligibility criteria and called for the second round where they will be screened through a personal interview. An offer of admission is made based on the candidate’s overall academic profile, work experience, score in GMAT/GRE/CAT and performance in the personal interview.

IIM Udaipur has an Academic Advisory Board for structuring this innovative program. The board constitutes of founders of successful digital companies in the country like Quikr’s Pranay Chulet and Info Edge India Ltd.’s Hitesh Oberoi.

Senior leaders from leading consulting, technology, consumer products and analytics companies including Accenture’s Ganesan Ramachandran, Deloitte’s Kamesh Mullapudi, STAR India’s Nitin Bawankule, IBM’s Sreejit Roy, Kimberly Clark’s K Harishankar, and Flipkart’s Ravi Vijayaraghavan are also members of the Advisory Board.

According to Prof Janat Shah, Director of IIM Udaipur, the B-school has already entered into multiple Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with several leading and start-up companies across business verticals for sharing and development of knowledge in the digital world.

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About IIM Udaipur:

The IIMs have a proud record of quality and accomplishment. IIM Udaipur is positioned to carry forward this illustrious legacy and is breaking ground by focusing on world-class research and transforming the learning of students who will be managers and leaders of tomorrow. The Institute has arrived on the global education stage by getting accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in merely eight years of its establishment. With this accreditation, IIM Udaipur is now counted in the same league of global institutes like Harvard Business School, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT Sloan School. IIMU has also recently been listed on the QS 2021 Masters in Management (MIM) Rankings as well as the Financial Times (FT) MIM Ranking 2020. IIMU is the youngest B-school in the world on both these rankings. According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2020, IIM Udaipur is ranked 17th amongst all B-Schools in the country. IIMU is currently ranked 4th in India for research in the field of management according to the methodology used by UT Dallas which tracks publications in the leading global journals.

Besides the flagship two-year MBA Program, IIMU offers one-year full-time, residential MBA programs in Global Supply Chain Management and Digital Enterprise Management. It additionally offers a Ph.D. Program. IIMU also houses an Incubation Centre and Consumer Culture Lab, besides centers for Development Policy and Management, Global Supply Chain Management, and Digital Enterprise Management. Its corporate partnerships extend into multiple engagements for the Institute.

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