Fore School Of Management MBA / PGDM: Overview

Course Highlights:

Introduction

Fore’s 2 Year PGDM is a two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Management which has a rigorous selection process. The applicants are shortlisted by experienced faculty and professionals in the industry. This process is crucial for selecting candidates who can perform remarkably well during the two-year stint at FORE. This ensures that the selected candidates achieve great success in the management field.

That said, the institute encourages diversity on campus – diversity in terms of academic performance, gender, and work experience. The institute is trying its best to encourage students from various regions such as the North-East and South India and ethnic background students to get admission to various programmes at FORE.

Objectives of Fore’s PGDM Program 

• To help students get experience and practical work knowledge of the corporate world.
• To let students implement strategies or come up with new ones that they learned theoretically.
• To equip students with great decision-making ability through conceptual and analytical skills.
• To make students capable of adapting to different work environments and fulfilling the needs of an organization.
• To equip students with great communication skills, ability to persuade, and, above all, to execute

Class profile

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Placements 

This year was impressive in terms of final placements, which brought very good median CTC and job offers to campus students. The average salary package increased, and the campus has seen a great diversity of recruiters.

Talking about the Industry sector, BFSI came up with 32% offers of the total number of offers made to students. In addition to that, IT/ITES made 32% of the offers; also, MR & Consulting and FMCG/FMCD made up 14% and 6% of the offers, respectively.

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Tab 3 – Eligibility

This program only allows students to apply who have a bachelor’s or any other equivalent degree issued by Universities incorporated by an Act of Central or State Legislature in India. The minimum marks requirement is 50%. Anyone with less than 50% marks would not be eligible.

Besides this, the graduate degree must be a 3-year degree obtained by the candidate after 12th (10+2).

Candidates who appear in the final year of their degree examinations in 2021 are also eligible for this programme. However, its important that the candidate furnishes proof of obtaining a minimum of 50% marks in all subjects. In case a student fails to achieve marks as mentioned in the proof, he/she will not be refunded the fee, and the provisional admission will be cancelled for him/her.

Another important requirement is that all applicants must have taken the XAT-2021 conducted by XLRI, Common Admission Test (CAT-2020) conducted by IIMs, or should have a valid GMAT score (these test must be taken between 1 January 2019 and 20 January 2021).

Tab 4 – Admissions 

SELECTION CRITERIA

Factors such as CAT-2020 percentile/ XAT-2021 percentile/ GMAT Score drive the shortlisting process. On the other hand, the final section process depends upon CAT/XAT percentile/ GMAT Score, Academic Performance, Written Ability, Work Experience, Business Awareness, and performance in Personal Interview (PI). However, the institute reserves the right to add or remove selection criteria if required.

Professionals and top faculties of the institute conduct personal interviews to select the right candidate for the programme to ensure that he/she will perform well throughout the programme and subsequently achieve success professionally.

HOW TO APPLY

Candidates will be able to apply ONLINE ONLY at http://admissions.fsm.ac.in . While filling out the form, applicants need to pay a fixed fee for application submission. For this, multiple payment methods are accepted, such as Credit/Debit Card or Net Banking. The fees are mentioned below in the table

Keep in mind that the fees, as mentioned above, are only applicable to students applying for multiple programmes while filling out the form. However, the fees of one, two, or three programmes as mentioned in the table will apply if you select or apply for these programmes at a later stage. Those candidates who are applying under or falls under the Company Sponsored Category need to apply in a given format in the stipulated time frame, and the format can be downloaded from the website.

As an applicant, you must review your application form before appearing for the selection process and make sure to point out any discrepancies.

Tab – 5 Fee & Scholarships

Fee for the PGDM  Programme

Self Sponsored Category – Rs. 15.98 Lakh

Company Sponsored Category – Rs. 23.97 Lakh

Other fees are already included in this fee as mentioned above, such as tuition fee, examination fee, extra and co-curricular activities, library, books and reading material, IT Services, etc. However, there is another one-time Registration fee of Rs 22,000 that a student must pay in addition to the admission fee.

Registration fee includes:

1. a) Rs. 5,000 towards Security Deposit (refundable).

1. b) Rs. 3,000 towards Library Security (refundable).

1. c) Rs. 2,000 towards Journal Subscription for two years.

1. d) Rs. 5,000 towards Medical Insurance with Personal Accident Policy for two years.

1. e) Rs. 7,000 towards Student Activities charges.

MEANS-CUM-MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS

Meritorious and needy students can get scholarship offers for PGDM, PGDM(IB), PGDM(FM), and PGDM(BDA) programmes by the FORE School of Management. Scholarship offers such as Means-cum-Merit Scholarship will be provided to the student based on their economic condition and how better their academic performance is. However, most of the scholarship schemes or supports include the waiver of the full tuition fee.

MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

Not only this, but the FORE School of Management provides scholarships to the rank holders for the first year of the programme. The details are given below.

Students who belong to Jammu & Kashmir and the 8 North-East states, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim, will be provided with a 10% waiver in tuition fee by FEE CONCESSIONS FROM J&K AND NE FORE School of Management.

Tab 6 – Curriculum

Pedagogy

The curriculum is a mix of lectures, classroom discussions, group discussions, case studies, simulations, role-plays, special sessions from professionals in this industry.

The methodology also comprises activities such as management games, industrial visits, sensitivity training, management films, and industry interaction. Students can also present their written case reports, individual or group presentations based on their case analysis.

In the two-year duration of this programme, students must go through the core and elective courses. In the first year, students are introduced to core courses, and this year is divided into three terms (a Term is typically ten weeks of classes and at most two weeks of examinations).

The elective courses start from the third term, and it works like this; in the 1st and 2nd term, students are introduced with only core courses, whereas in the 3rd term, they have to continue with core courses plus elective courses as well. These elective courses help students for further specialization in their area of interest.

However, after the first year of study, all students must go through the Summer Internship of 10 to 12 weeks in a public or private corporate organization.

From Term-4 to Term-6, students only study elective courses, which come under the second year of the programme. Students can choose any courses such as independent study, exchange programmes, and complementary International Immersion Programme (IIP).

To provide exposure to the international business scenarios and global best practices, the institute provides an International Immersion Programme, which is also a part of the full-time course curriculum. The IIP is typically held after the 3^rd term.

Programme Structure and Credits

Fore uses the concept of credits to indicate the number of in-class contact hours. One credit stands for ten in-class contact hours. For instance, a 3.0 credit course includes around 100 hours of work, which means 30 hours in the classroom and the rest for assignments and preparation.

To get the degree from FORE School for the Post Graduate Diploma in Management, a student must obtain at least 103.5 Credits (in total). Where the 97.5 credits come from classroom teaching, and the other 6.0 from the Summer Internship programme. More specifically, from the 97.5 credits, the 54.0 comes from core courses, and the rest 43.5 from elective courses.

However, do note that the credits earned from SIP (Summer Internship Program) would not be applicable for the calculation of CGPA.

The Year and Term- wise Credit Course structure in the PGDM programme is in the table below:

1 week International Immersion Programme* of 1.5 credit (Will reflect in Term-6)

8-10 weeks summer internship Programme  of 6.0 credit

When it comes to the International Immersion Programme (IIP), so for better clarification, it is a complementary component of the PGDM/PGDM-IB/PGDM-FM programmes. And because it is subject to safe international travelling conditions, that’s why the institute reserves the right to cancel it in a Covid like pandemic-like situation.

Courses in Full Time PGDM

PGDM – FMG (Future Managers’ Group) Batch of 2018-20

Courses and Credits

In the first year of the programme, a student must obtain at least 60.0 credits, of which 54 credits can be earned from core courses and the rest six credits from elective courses. Below you’ll find the list of courses, their area, and the associated credits offered to the student (only for the 1st year of the programme).

Term -1

Term -2

Term -3

Electives

From the start of Term-3, students must choose any elective courses as per their choice of specialization. Where in, a student must earn/obtain at least 43.5 credits from this Term-3. Along with that, 1.5 credits can be earned in Ter-6 from the IIP held between Term-3 and 4.

This programme by FORE School of Management allows students to specialize in the two most areas. This is how a student can choose five credits of electives in the area of specialization. And because of the credit system, students will be allowed to opt for the 3rd area of specialization.

Students can find the elective course from each Sentient Area; thus, a student gets better opportunities to choose the area of specialization. The Sentient Area may specify a particular course, such as Specialization Area Prerequisite (SARP), which is only for students who decided to specialize in a specific area of interest.