First Year
Compulsory Courses
The first-year courses are aimed at building the foundation of the Programme. Hence, all participants are required to complete all the first-year courses. These courses are designed to provide basic conceptual knowledge and analytical tools in different disciplines and functional areas of management incorporating inter-dependent and inter-related disciplines, functions, and factors that form the core of organizational functioning and managerial effectiveness. Uniquely, the first-year curriculum also consists of courses that aim at inculcating a sense of ethical consciousness and social responsibility.
The first-year core curriculum, which is compulsory, consists of the following courses:
| IIM Sambalpur Course Structure of First-Year Batch 06 (2020-22) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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TERM I |
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|
No. |
Course with Acronyms |
Hours |
No. of Sessions |
Credits |
|
1 |
Financial Accounting |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
2 |
Microeconomics |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
3 |
Legal Aspects of Business (LAB) |
15 |
10 |
1.5 |
|
4 |
Quantitative Techniques I (QT I) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
5 |
Organizational Behaviour I |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
6 |
Marketing Management I (MM I) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
7 |
Business Communication |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
8 |
Managerial Computing |
15 |
10 |
1.5 |
|
|
|
210 |
|
21 |
|
|
Non-Credit Course |
|
|
|
|
9 |
Data Analysis Using SPSS of 1.5 credit |
|
10 |
|
|
TERM II |
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|
1 |
Operations Management I |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
2 |
Macro-Economic Analysis |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
3 |
Marketing Management II (MM II) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
4 |
Organization Behaviour II |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
5 |
Quantitative Techniques II |
15 |
10 |
1.5 |
|
6 |
Management Accounting |
15 |
10 |
1.5 |
|
7 |
Written Analysis and Communication |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
8 |
Financial Management I |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
|
|
210 |
|
21 |
|
|
Non-Credit Course |
|
|
|
|
9 |
Entrepreneurial Orientation of 1.5 Credits |
|
10 |
|
|
TERM III |
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|
1 |
Financial Management II |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
2 |
Operations Management (OM II) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
3 |
Human Resource Management (HRM) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
4 |
Management Information Systems (MIS) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
5 |
Strategic Management (SM) |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
6 |
Marketing Research |
15 |
10 |
1.5 |
|
7 |
Ethics, CSR and Sustainability |
30 |
20 |
3 |
|
|
|
195 |
|
19.5 |
|
|
Non-Credit Course |
|
|
|
|
8 |
Design Thinking of 1.5 Credits out of which .75 credits in Term III and .75 in Term IV |
|
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS OF CREDIT COURSES |
615 |
|
61.5 |
Summer Internship
At the end of first year of the programme, participants are required to undertake an industry-based Summer Project for a period of 8-10 weeks. The placement cell of the Institute provides necessary support in arranging suitable assignments. The Summer Internship is intended to provide participants an opportunity to apply management principles learned during the first year, and get first-hand experience of industry with a new perspective. Summer Internship is a compulsory requirement and without completing it successfully, no student shall be eligible to register themselves for the second year of the programme. At the time of the fourth Term registration, participants will be required to produce a Summer Internship Completion Certificate from the organizations in which they interned. The participants will also be required to submit a feedback form, duly filled and signed by the industry mentor, to the Placement Office. Participants will be allowed for the provisional registration to Term IV till the feedback received from their respective industry mentors. On the successful completion of the Summer Internship project, the participants will be allowed to register formally.
International Immersion Programme
With the objective of enhancing the global competences of the participants, IIM Sambalpur has partnered with a few reputed foreign institutions, e.g., ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece, and Munich Business School, Germany. In this International Immersion Programme, First-year MBA participants, who are interested in International Students Exchange Programme (ISEP) shall register themselves during the second term. The cost shall be borne by the participants only.