IIMA/March 13, 2018

To : First Year Students

From : Satish Deodhar

Chairperson, PGP

1. Academic Calendar

The Academic Calendar for the second year programme in 2018-19, divided into three
terms is given in Appendix 1. Second year fee structure is given in Appendix 2.

2. Summer Placement Certificate

You are also required to submit to the Placement Office on the reopening date, the Summer
Placement certificate duly completed in all respects. If you fail to do so, you will not be
permitted to register for the second year programme.

3. Second Year Curriculum

Total Credit requirement for the year will be a Minimum of 20 credits and a
Maximum of 23 credits under any combination of courses in different terms, subject
to the maximum and minimum credit requirement for each term as specified in the
table below:

Required Credits for Each term

and Total for the Year
Minimum Maximum
Term 4* 7 9
Term 5 6 8
Term 6 5 7
Total Permitted 20 Credits 23 Credits
* Including core courses of 1.00 credits

You must choose the electives at the time of bidding itself.

4. List of Second Year Courses

A list of second year elective courses to be offered during Term 4 is given in Appendix 3.

Subject to condition that may be applicable, you may register for maximum 3 courses
across the other programmes (FPM, PGP-ABM and PGPX) during the academic year 2018-
19.

5. FPM Courses

You may take FPM courses subject to the following conditions:

 You may register for one FPM course per term with the prior permission of the
instructor(s) concerned. (According to FPM guidelines, not more than four PGP students
can register for any one FPM course.)

Please note that if the FPM courses are not chosen by enough participants from that
programme, those courses may not be offered. The list of FPM courses proposed to be
offered during Term 4 is enclosed as Appendix 4.

You are required to mention the full title of the course you wish to register for and the
name of the instructor(s). You are also required to obtain the consent letter from the
instructor concerned and submit to the PGP office at least a day before the registration. In
the absence of this information, your registration to the FPM Course will not be valid.

7. PGP-FABM Courses

Please note that if the PGP-FABM courses are not chosen by enough participants from that
programme, those courses may not be offered. The list of FABM courses proposed to be
offered during Term 4 is also as attached as Appendix 5.

8. Term Break Courses

You are permitted to register for up to 1.25 credits for courses offered during a
break which is less than two weeks. You may account the “between-term course”
credits towards either of the adjoining terms, up to a maximum of 1.25 credits in
each term (to ensure a balanced workload across terms).

9. Registration Formalities

a. Announcement: The courses on offer will be announced five or six weeks before
start of the relevant term.

b. Course Bidding: You are required to bid for Term 4 courses now. The dynamic
bidding process for the courses will be conducted by the Academic Council 2018-
19.

The bidding process for Term 4 is strictly binding on you in the sense that the
electives you finally choose for Term 4 have to be from among the elective courses
you have either won or are waitlisted during the dynamic bidding process. You will
not be permitted to register for fresh courses, even if there are vacant seats. (This is
because the entire PGP academic planning is done on the basis of the bidding
results from the dynamic bidding of courses. You are advised to think carefully
during the bidding process to ensure that you get to do the courses you really want
to.)

c. Bidding Workshop: A bidding workshop may be organized by the Students'

Academic Council soon after the course announcement, to enable you to seek more
information on the bidding process and the courses being offered. You may, if you
wish, meet the instructors concerned to obtain more details about the courses you
wish to select. If necessary, the PGP Office would arrange a meeting between you
and the instructors.

d. Dropping of courses after pre-registration: Courses with pre-registration of less

than 20 students will be dropped as soon as pre-registration is completed. This rule
 may not applicable in the following situations:

i. If a course with less than 20 registrations is offered for the first time,
ii. If the course with less than 20 registrations forms part of a concentration
package and at least five students opt for the package.

Courses which are dropped can be converted to a project course, if the interested
pre-registered students and the instructor wish to do so.

Students pre-registered for courses which are dropped and not converted to a
project course can register for other courses.

e. Scheduling of Classes: Several courses will be scheduled simultaneously.

While every effort will be made by the PGP Office to respect your choice of
courses, it may not be possible for every course. So you must choose your
term courses within the framework of the tentative timetable, which will be
forwarded to your Acads Council.

f. Registration: You are required to fill in the regular course registration

form on the term opening date, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 with the PGP Office
after payment of Term 4 fees at the Accounts Office. Your registration
should be strictly within the pre-registered courses.

Students, who fail to register on the reopening date without prior

permission of the Chairperson, PGP, are deemed to have withdrawn from
the programme. In special circumstances a student may be permitted to
register late, in which case she/he will be required to pay a late registration
fee as decided by the Chairperson, PGP and which in no case will be less
than Rs.4000 per day.

g. Final Registration: You are expected to attend classes of all pre-registered

courses, if scheduled, during the first week of the term. At the end of the
first week, you would be required to submit your final choice of courses for
the term.

However, if the classes of any of the courses that you have pre-registered
begin either after the first week or mid-way of the term, you would be
permitted to finalize the registration of such courses after attending 2-3
classes. You would be permitted to drop a course. Any further drop of
courses will only be subject to approval of Chairperson, PGP and payment of
fine as applicable. While exercising your option to drop a course, you will
have to ensure that the requirements for a term are met.

h. Withdrawal of Course Offerings after Final Registration: After final

registration, new courses with less than twenty students may be dropped
and other courses with less than twenty students will be dropped; or
converted to a project course with the consent of the instructor and the
students.

Students pre-registered for courses which are dropped and not converted
 to a project course can register for other courses. No concession is given
for missed classes or any segments of evaluation as a result of changes in
the first week. No change of elective courses is permitted after the last
date for finalizing electives in a term.

The students must not to register for courses which have clash of class schedule
with other course(s) in the timetable given to you. Any shortfall of attendance
due to violation of this condition will be solely the responsibility of the
participant.
 Appendix I

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Two Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management
PGP II - Academic Calendar 2018-2019

Tentative
Second Year
Term Details Dates
Registration June 05, 2018
Classes June 06 – July 14, 2018
Term 4 Mid-term Examination July 15 – 18, 2018
Classes July 19 – August 21, 2018
End-term Examination August 23 – 27, 2018
Registration September 05, 2018
Classes September 06 – October 13, 2018
Term 5 Mid-term Examination October 15 – 17, 2018
Classes October 22 – November 30, 2018
End-term Examination December 01 – 05, 2018
Registration December 17, 2018
Classes December 18, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Term 6 Mid-term Examination January 21 – 24, 2019
Classes January 28 – March 02, 2019
End-term Examination March 04 – 09, 2019
August 28 – September 04, 2018
Break
December 06 – 16, 2018
Final Placement Interviews February 06 – 16, 2019

Events Dates * (all tentative)

Red Brick Fest September 29-October 02, 2018
Chaos January 25 – 27, 2019
Convocation (Tentative) March 23, 2019
 Appendix 2
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Two-Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management
Expenses & Schedule of Payment for 2018-2019

Second Year

Term IV (Due on
Sl Description (Rs.)
1. Tuition fees 3,02,000
2. Academic Support 65,000
3. Hostel & Facility 24,000
4. Welfare 8,000
5. Membership & Subscription 17,000
Total Fees 4,16,000

Total Payment 4,16,000

Yearly Expenses (Amount in Rupees)

Sl. Description Amount Total Fees for Overseas students* US$10,000
1. Tuition fees 7,94,000
2. Academic Support 1,95,000 Term V (Due on September )
3. Hostel & Facility 72,000 Sl Description (Rs.)
4. Welfare 8,000 1. Tuition fees 2,46,000
5. Membership & Subscription 17,000 2. Academic Support 65,000
Total Annual Fee 10,86,000 3. Hostel & Facility 24,000
Fee for overseas students* US$ 25,000 Total Fees 3,35,000
Total Fees for Overseas Student* US$7,500

Term VI (Due on December )

Sl Description (Rs.)
1. Tuition fees 2,46,000
2. Academic Support 65,000
3. Hostel & Facility 24,000
Total Fees 3,35,000
Total Fees for Overseas Student* US$7,500

* Inclusive of food charges for overseas students.

 Appendix 3
PGP II: Term 4 Elective Course List (2018-19)
Minimum Credits: 7
Maximum Credits: 9
Elective Courses
No Area Course Course Name Credit Instructor(s) PGP
Acronym
1 BP BIP Business and Intellectual Property 1.00 Anurag Agarwal 60
2 BP BNLL Business Negligence, Liability and 0.50 M.P. Ram Mohan 20
Law
3 BP BT Business Taxation 0.50 Savan Godiawala (VF) 60
4 BP CCCS Competence, Capability and 1.00 N. Ravichandran 53
Corporate Strategy
5 BP CPSF(A) Consulting and Professional Service 0.75 Sunil Sharma 45
Firms-A
6 BP CPSF(B) Consulting and Professional Service 0.75 Sunil Sharma 45
Firms-B
7 BP LVMR(A) Leadership, Vision, Meaning and 1.25 S. Manikutty (AF) 65
Reality-A
8 BP LVMR(B) Leadership, Vision, Meaning and 1.25 S. Manikutty (AF) 65
Reality-B
9 CIIE NTADBM New Technology Application, 1.00 Rakesh Basant 26
Design and Business Models
10 CMA SY Shodh Yatra ( ) - Off Campus 1.25 Anil Gupta 20
11 COM CCR(A) Communicating Corporate 1.00 Asha Kaul 35
Reputation (A)
12 COM CCR(B) Communicating Corporate 1.00 Asha Kaul 35
Reputation (B)
13 ECO EoO Economics of Organization 1.25 Errol D'Souza 60
14 ECO GTA Game Theory and Applications 1.25 Viswanath Pingali 56
15 ECO MEM Managerial Econometrics 1.00 Sanket Mohapatra, 44
Abhiman Das
16 ECO MTP Monetary Theory and Policy 1.00 Errol D'Souza 50
17 ECO/BP EoS Economics of Strategy 1.00 Rakesh Basant 50
18 FIN FIS Fixed Income Securities 0.75 Jayanth Varma, Vineet 65
Virmani
19 FIN FORM(A) Futures, Options and Risk 1.25 Sidharth Sinha 75
Management-A
20 FIN FORM(B) Futures, Options and Risk 1.25 Sidharth Sinha 75
Management-B
21 FIN MIPM Modern Investment & Portfolio 1.25 Ajay Pandey, 70
Management Sobhesh Agarwalla
22 HRM BS Business & Society 1.00 Nagarajan Ramamoorthy 32
(VF)
23 HRM BTOT Business Turnaround and 0.75 Sunil Maheshwari 40
Organizational Transformation
24 HRM GPP Games People Play: Psychology of 1.00 Promila Agarwal 30
HRM
25 HRM PCIH Personal Competencies for 1.00 Nagarajan Ramamoorthy 32
International HRM (VF)
26 IS SIE Strategies for Internet Economy 0.75 Rekha Jain 60
27 IS SMIS Strategic Management of 0.75 Rekha Jain 60
Information Systems
28 MKT MMW Marketing Management in the 1.00 Prakash Bagri (VF) 50
World of High Tech. and Innovation
29 MKTG CB Consumer Behaviour 1.00 Abhijit Biswas (VF) 50
30 MKTG MRIS (A) Market Research and Information 1.50 Anand Kumar Jaiswal 30
Systems-A
31 MKTG MRIS (B) Market Research and Information 1.50 Anand Kumar Jaiswal 25
Systems-B
32 MKTG PCG(A) Pricing (A) 1.25 Arvind Sahay 50
33 MKTG PCG(B) Pricing (B) 1.25 Arvind Sahay 50
34 MKTG SM(A) Strategic Marketing-A 1.25 Arindam Banerjee, 30
Sanjeev Tripathi(VF)
35 MKTG SM(B) Strategic Marketing-B 1.25 Arindam Banerjee, 30
Sanjeev Tripathi (VF)
36 MKTG SMM Strategic Models in Marketing 0.75 Ramanathan Subramaniam 34
(VF)
37 OB CIW Contemporary Indian Workplaces: 0.75 Ernesto Noronha 40
Decent Work and Diversity
38 OB ERI(A)* Explorations in Role and Identity 1.25 Neharika Vohra 48
(August 28 - September 2)
39 P&QM AMDA Advanced Methods of Data Analysis 1.25 Arnab K Laha 40
40 P&QM SCT Supply Chain Thinking: Value 0.50 Shardul Phadnis (VF) 40
Creation and Adaptation
41 P&QM UCR Why Projects Fail? Uncertainty, 1.00 Goutam Dutta 50
Complexity and Risk in Projects
42 P&QM WwN Working with Networks 1.00 Diptesh Ghosh 27
43 PGP BIO Bionics 0.75 Samir Shukla (VF) 40
44 PGP PFM(A) Philosophical Foundatiuon of 1.25 Ajay Pandey, Sebastian 45
Management-A Morris
45 PGP PFM(B) Philosophical Foundatiuon of 1.25 Ajay Pandey, Sebastian 45
Management-B Morris
46 PSG IDF Infrastructure Development & 1.25 Sebastian Morris*, 70
Financing Biju Varkkey,
Rekha Jain, Ajay Pandey
47 PSG QRMUBHDNS Qualitative Research Methods for 0.50 Navdeep Mathur 40
Understanding Business and
Human Development in a Network
Society
48 PSG RTPM Rail Transport Planning and 1.00 Sundavalli N 35
Management
49 PSG TSM Transformational Social 1.00 Ankur Sarin, Navdeep 30
Movements Mathur,
George Kandathil, Sandeep
Pandey (VF)
*ERI(B) will be offered from December 6 to 16, 2018 (term break)
 Appendix 4
FPM Term 4 Course List (2018-19)
Open to PGP Students

Will be intimated later.

Appendix 5
PGP-FABM II: Term 4 Elective Course List (2018-19)
Open to PGP Students

Elective Courses
Course
No Area Course Name Credit Instructor(s) Seats
Acronym
1 CMA AF Agricultural Finance 1.00 Joshy Jacob 10