Acharya Institue of Management and Sciences, 1st cross, 1st stage, Peenya, Bangalore 560 058, Karnataka

Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences

Introduction: The AIMS Center for Admissions facilitates the admission process of the prospective students by offering them necessary counseling and career guidance to help them select the right programme and the professional assistance they require. AIMS Center for Admission conducts selection rounds for admissions from time to time during the year at the Campus as well as at different regional centers within the country and across the globe. The center and guides and helps students in processing their applications for the admission in the institute.

MISSION: The Admissions center at AIMS is committed to offer efficient and comprehensive service to all prospective students and to ensure a transparent and prompt admission process.

Admission Philosophy: An important trait of AIMS is to include culturally diverse student population. AIMS strongly believes that students from all over India as well as other countries, who represent a broad spectrum of diversified cultural and economic environments, develop communal harmony and add to rich learning experience. Hence, the selection process is carefully designed to take account of this aspect. Each applicant is objectively assessed by the selection committee, which is constituted of technical and HR experts, on the basis of his / her academic accomplishments, analytical, communication and presentation capabilities. All the applicants who make through the preliminary selection process are personally interviewed by the CEO before the final acceptance. Admissions are finalized only after completing all the formalities and submission of required documents.

Programmes:

(1) Master of Business Administration (MBA): was set up in the year 1998 with the broad objective to impart professional education & training in various aspects of modern management and provide them with opportunities to develop conceptual & analytical skills and foster attitudes essential for their development into competent and effective managers. It provides the perfect learning ambience to budding management professionals with the help well qualified and experienced faculty, internships and projects with the industry, industrial tours, opportunities in research and consultancy projects undertaken by the institution, exposure to guest speakers from the industry, participation in seminars, workshops and other events, intensive training in soft skills and so on.

Course Eligibility :
• A graduate degree under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 pattern under any discipline securing at least 50% marks in aggregate including languages from a recognized university.

• Honours degree under 10+2+4 pattern from a recognized university under UGC Act having at least 50% marks in aggregate including languages.

• Candidates who have passed bachelor / master degree through correspondence / Open University system from this university or from any other university recognized by law are exempted from 10+2 pattern. The duration of the degrees must be 3 years 2 years respectively.

• Candidates who pass bachelor/master degree in any university system in single sitting pattern are not eligible.

• In case of SC/ST/Cat I candidates, there will be a relaxation of 5% in the aggregate of marks obtained.

• Admission to the program will be effected through MBA PGCET or state approved admission test from time to time.

Duration of the Course :

• MBA is a two year course spread over four semesters. Each semester is for a period of five months.

• The first semester exposes students to the basics of management; the second semester introduces the different functional areas of management.

• The third and fourth semesters focuses on elective courses. The Program offers a wide choice to the students with functional /sectoral areas of specialization to choose from.

Approval :

The program has approval of Bangalore University and is also approved by AICTE. The MBA degree is awarded by Bangalore University

I Semester – Basic Subjects

(a) Managerial Communication
(b) Accounting for Managers
(c) Organisation Behaviour
(d) Managerial Economics
(e) BUMASTICS
(f) Information Technology for Business
(g) Business Perspectives

II Semester – Core Subjects
(a) Research Methodology & Technical Writing
(b) Financial Management
(c) Production and Operations Management
(d) Human Resource Management
(e) Marketing Management
(f) Quantitative Methods & Operations Research
(g) Legal Aspects of Business

III Semester – Core Subjects and Specializations
(a) Entrepreneurship Development
(b) Business Ethics & Corporate Governance
(c) Electives 1 from specialisation
(d) Electives 2 from specialisation
(e) Electives 3 from specialisation
(f) Electives 4 from specialisation
(g) Electives 5 from specialisation
(h) Internship Report and Viva-Voce

IV Semester – Core Subjects and Specializations
(a) Strategic Management
(b) International Business
(c) Electives 1 from specialisation
(d) Electives 2 from specialisation
(e) Electives 3 from specialisation
(f) Electives 4 from specialisation
(g) Electives 5 from specialisation
(h) Dissertation
(i) Dissertation Viva-Voce

(2) AIMA Programmes

1. Four-Semester Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM),

2. Four-Semester Post Graduate Diploma in IT Management (PGDITM)

3. Two-Semester Management Certificate Programmes (PGCM) in Marketing, Pharmaceutical Marketing, IB, HRM, Retail Marketing and Finance

AIMS Programme

4. Four-Semester Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), AIMS Institutional Program for which the accreditation from IACEB is in the process.

Eligibility :
• 50% in any under graduate program

• A minimum score of 500 in Management Aptitude Test of All India Management Association(AIMA)

DURATION :

years (4 semesters) for PGDM & PGDITM

1 year (2 semesters) for PGCM

APPROVALS :

AIMA Programs are approved by AICTE, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, and are well received by the Industry and has International recognition.

AIMA Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) and AIMS Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) - 4 Semester Programmes

I - SEMESTER
• Quantitative Techniques
• Management Functions & Organizational Behavior
• Financial Management
• Information Technology
• Managerial Economics
• Business Communication
Live Project

II - SEMESTER
• Financial Management
• Research Methodology
• Marketing Management
• Human Resource Management
• Operations Management
• Economics and Social Environment
Organization Study with a Special Task

III - SEMESTER

SPECIALIZATION SUBJECTS (any one of the following specializations can be chosen)

1. MARKETING MANAGEMENT
• Sales and Distribution Management
• Advertising and sales promotion Management
• Marketing of Services
• Consumer Behaviour

2. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
• Management control system
• Security Analysis and Portfolio management
• Corporate Finance
• Management of Financial Services

3. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• Performance Management
• Training and development
• Managing change through organizational development
• Managerial Leadership

4. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• International Marketing Management
• International Finance
• International Human Resource Management
• Indian Foreign Trade
• Import Export Documentation
• Globalization of Business

5. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• Family Business Management
• New Venture Creation & Development
• Small Business Policy & Procedure for Establishing Small Enterprises
• Finance for Small and Medium Enterprises
• Small Business Going International
• Strategic Management for Small Business

6. OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Technology Management
• Project Management
• Supply Chain management
• Quality Management
• Operations Strategy

7. INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• Computer Networks
• E Commerce
• Software Engineering
• Database Management
• Management of Information Technology

IV SEMESTER
• Business Law & Corporate Governance
• International Business
• Entrepreneurial Management
• Strategic Management & Ethics
• Project Work preferably in an MNC / International Organization

AIMA Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Management (PGDITM). Lab classes are conducted by HCL Technologies.

I - SEMESTER
• Management Functions & Organizational Behavior
• Management Information Systems
• Quantitative Techniques for managers
• Operating Systems (Lab)
• Accounting Information Systems
• Web Application Development (Lab)
Live Project

II - SEMESTER
• Computer Networks
• Database Management
• Marketing Information Systems
• Operations Management
• Financial management
• Business Process Analysis & Design
Organization Study with a Special Task

III - SEMESTER

SPECIALIZATION SUBJECTS (any one of the following specializations can be chosen)

1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
• Data Structures, Algorithms & Programming (Lab)
• Object Oriented Analysis & Design (Lab)
• Knowledge Management
• Network Security Management
• Software Quality Management
• IT Governance

2. FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
• IT Applications in Retail Banking (Lab)
• IT Applications in Non Banking Financial Services
• Security Analysis & Portfolio Management
• Financial Engineering
• Developing Financial Portals (Lab)

3. RETAIL SYSTEMS
• Fundamentals of Retailing
• IT Applications for Merchandising
• IT Applications for Retail Supply Chain Management
• Business Intelligence
• ECRM (Lab)
• E-Retailing (Lab)

4 OPERATIONS SYSTEMS
• Advanced Operations Research
• IT Applications for Facility Planning
• Supply chain Management (Lab)
• Change Management & Business Process Reengineering
• Project management (Lab)
• IT Applications in Service Operations

IV SEMESTER
• Software Project Management (Lab)
• Data Warehousing & Data Mining
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Information Risk Management
• E Commerce (Lab)
• Enterprise Application Integration
Project Work
• Candidates with minimum one year work experience can apply with MAT Score of 450