KIIT School of Rural Management Bhubaneshwar Admission MBA in Rural Management & Agribusiness Management 2012

KIIT School of Rural Management (KSRM)

KIIT University, Krishna Campus (Declared u/s 3 of UGC Act 1956)
PO-KIIT, Bhubaneswar-751024, Orissa, Tel 0674-2375800, 2375811, Fax 0674-2725378

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Admission MBA (Rural Management, Agribusiness Management) 2012-14

MBA (Agribusiness Management)

The Programme is designed to create a fine balance between class room and experiential learning

Nearly 40% of the programme is through experiential learning, for which, 3 innovative field study segments of 10-12 weeks duration each have been designed

Action Research Segment (ARS): The Action Research Segment (ARS) will allow students to self-train themselves in drawing village micro-plans in greater detail with reference to agriculture

In this segment, the students will also engage themselves in technology transfer process in active collaboration with state departments, Agriculture Universities and industry

At the end of this segment, students will themselves evaluate the impact of their own interventions from the target beneficiaries through a unique feedback methodology

Case Study Segment (CSS): Agri-business case studies are typical in describing a real situation faced by agri-business firms

It allows to practice their analytical and managerial presentation skills

This segment will be done with active collaboration of organizations engaged in business and or promotion of agri-business including SMEs who are likely to be benefitted in a variety of ways

In fact, the case study results in a rigorous analysis which requires research and insights into challenges faced by management and may open valuable opportunities for their business

This segment will be exciting both for the students and organizations engaged in agri-business

Management Traineeship Segment (MTS): The Management Traineeship Segment will be a problem solving segment wherein students will apply their analytical and decision making skills on specific problems received from organizations engaged in agri-business

The students will work under the active guidance of experienced senior managers, which will help them to make decisions under real and more demanding situations

This will be a valuable component to promote industry-students interface of this academic progarmme

Fee: The total fee for the programme is Rs 6.47 lakh (all inclusive including laptop) payable in four installments

MBA (Rural Management)

MBA (RM) is the flagship programme of the School

It is preparing students for managerial positions to professionalize the management of wide variety of institutions working for the rural areas

Curriculum Design: MBA (RM) Programme is designed to balance academics with experiential learning and has two specific segments (Class Room Segment (CRS), spread over 55 weeks in four Semesters and Field Work Segment (FWS) of 33 weeks in three semesters)

The three FWS components are designed in a progressive manner with village study segment in semester II in year one and Management Traineeship Segment (MTS) I and II respectively in Semester III and IV in year two

Pedagogy: The school uses a very broad mix of teaching/learning techniques which includes-lectures by instructors, case studies, individual research projects, group projects, classroom discussions, videos shown in class, classroom presentations by students, computerized learning assignments and reading textbooks

The school also provides a forum for students to develop general business knowledge and exposes them to a wide variety of speakers, presentations, we understand that everybody has a preferred learning style and therefore we encourage self-directed learning wherein individuals can be empowered to take more responsibility with the learning endeavor not necessarily in isolation from others

Fee: The total fee for the programme is Rs 6.47 lakh (all inclusive including laptop) payable in four installments

Placement: KSRM successfully completed its third placement programme achieving cent percent success. The highly diverse batch of 47 students was placed in 21 companies with a total of 56 offers. Around 13 new companies participated in the process which is a testimony to the performance of the pioneering batch and the emergent standing of KSRM amongst the industry. The recruiters were broadly from Development and Corporate Sectors with Development Firms like ACCESS Development Services, ChildFund India, Development Alternatives, and SREI Sahaj e - Village Ltd representing the former category while Adani Wilmar, Digital Green, India Offbeat and Neem India Products Pvt Ltd were prominent in the later category

Admission procedure: The applicants must have appeared for IRMA written test

This year KSRM will also consider registration for admission into MBA (RM) and MBA (ABM) for applicants who have registered in national level written exam namely CAT/XAT/MAT/TISS

Group discussion and personal interview: The GD/PI for short listed candidates will be held in two rounds from 15th January, 2012 to 22nd January, 2012 for candidates who have appeared for IRMA written exam and have registered with KSRM for admission before 31st December, 2011

From 12th February, 2012 to 18th February, 2012 for candidates who have appeared for other national level written exams(CAT/XAT/MAT/TISS) and have registered with KSRM for admission before 31st January, 2012

The group discussion/personal interview for all the short-listed candidates will be held at 5 (five) centre; Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai

Basis of selection: Academic career, performance in respective written exams and group discussion/personal interview

Admission offer: Successful candidates will be intimated of their final selection through admission offer letter containing the terms and condition of the admission

For the offer to be valid, the selected candidates, after going through the contents of admission offer letter, need to confirm and accept the offer with the terms and conditions for taking admission to the programme through acceptance letter along with a demand draft for Rs 30,000/- favouring KIIT School of Rural Management as the case may be, payable at Bhubaneswar towards the admission fees

The admission fee so deposited is refundable if the admitted candidate withdraws before the start of the course for genuine reason

All the candidates who have been offered admission have to pay the fees as stipulated in the admission offer otherwise they would forfeit their seat to the person next on the waiting list