POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

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PGDM IN Banking & FINANCIAL Services

Vision of the Institute:

To become an institute of choice for social science research and management education and contribute to the excellence of organizations and society

Mission of the Institute:

To anticipate and respond to the needs of social science and management research of the government, corporate and social sectors through its multidisciplinary competency in social science research and management education.

PGDM-Banking and Financial Services (PGDM-BFS)

In order to churn out trained professionals to suit the requirements of rapidly expanding Banking, Insurance and Financial Services (BIF) sector, the Institute launched PGDM-BIF programme in 2008. This is a two-year full-time, AICTE-approved course. The program has the state-of-the-art curriculum with the thrust on market orientation, globalization, financial and banking sector reforms. It has an intake of 120 and candidates for this program are selected based on their performance in CAT / XAT / MAT / ATMA / CMAT / GMAT and any other test approved by AICTE

Programme Educational Objectives

To impart knowledge on a wide range of concepts relating to management, banking, insurance and financial services.
To enhance capabilities for critical thinking, problem solving and decision making through dissemination of knowledge and relevant inputs.
To facilitate accelerated learning and an in-depth understanding of practices and ethics of management in general and Banking, Insurance & Financial Services in particular.

Program outcomes

Have a thorough understanding of concepts relating to management, banking, insurance and financial service.
Attain technical knowledge and analytical skills in order to solve the critical problems and decision making.
Capable of performing banking operations.
Carryout project appraisal at banks and financial institutions.
Have better clarity on practices in the domains of Management and Banking, Insurance & Financial Services, with due focus on ethical aspects.

Program Specific Outcomes

PSO 1:
Capability to perform Financial reporting analysis, Manage Finances, Credit appraisal, Investment and portfolio analysis, Risk Analysis, and Valuation using Financial models and data analysis tools.

PSO 2:
Ability to use interpersonal communication to market financial products and services, build human relations, and efficiently use operational and technological resources by problem-solving and critical thinking.

CURRICULUM

First Year

Trimester I
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF1101	Management and Organizational Behaviour	3
22BIF1102	Business Statistics for Decision Making	3
22BIF1103	Economics for Managers	3
22BIF1104	Accounting for Managers	3
22BIF1105	Personality Development and Business Communication	LG
22BIF1109	Marketing Management	3
22BIF1110	Management of Bank Operations	3
22BIF2220	Financial Markets, Institutions and Services	3
Total Credits		21

Trimester II
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF2112	Human Resource Management	3
22BIF2201	Operations Research	3
22BIF2202	Corporate Finance	3
22BIF2203	Macro Economics	3
22BIF2208	IT Applications and FinTech	3
22BIF2209	Principles and Practices of Life Insurance	3
22BIF3304	Financial Econometrics & Research Methodology	3
22BIF2207	Foreign Language – French	LG
Total Credits		21

Second Year

Trimester III
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF3301	Production and Operations Management	3
22BIF3302	Cost and Management Accounting	2
22BIF3303	Business Analytics for Managers	3
EF224007	Fixed Income Securities	2
22BIF3305	Priming for Placements (Business Aptitude)	LG
22BIF3306	Start-Ups and Entrepreneurial Finance	3
22BIF3310	Principles and Practices of General Insurance	3
22BIF3CV	Comprehensive Viva	1
Total Credits		17

Trimester IV
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF4401	Strategic Management	3
22BIF4406	Legal Environment for BIF	3
EF224002	Financial Modeling	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 1	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 2	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 1	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 2	3
	Summer Internship Project & Viva Voce	3
Total Credits		24

Summer Internship Project (SIP) 8 weeks

Trimester V
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF5501	Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility	2
22BIF5506	International Banking, Treasury and Forex Management	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 3	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 4	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 3	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 4	3
Total Credits		17

Trimester VI
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
22BIF6606	Retail Banking, Rural Banking and Micro Finance	2
22BIF6607	Management of Pension Funds	Workshop
22BIF6608	Project & Infrastructure Management and Financing	2
	Long Term Research Project & Viva	2
Total Credits		6

Term	Credits
1	21
2	21
3	17
4	24
5	17
6	06
Total No. of Credits	106

Electives

The students have to select any one or two Elective Streams from the list mentioned below as per the norms of the course

Finance

Finance Elective (IV Trimester)		Finance Elective (V Trimester)
EF224001	Financial Analysis and Credit Management	EF225001	Risk Management
EF224002	Financial Modelling	EF225002	Derivatives and Structured Finance
EF224003	Security Analysis and Portfolio Management	EF225003	Financial Planning and Wealth Management
EF224004	Tax Planning and Management	EF225004	Entrepreneurial Finance
EF224005	Corporate Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions	EF225005	Strategic Financial Management
EF224006	Strategic Cost Management	EF225006	Financial Analytics
EF224007	Fixed Income Securities	EF225007	Foreign Exchange Arithmetic
EF224008	Financial Econometrics	EF225008	Private Equity
		EF225009	Mutual Funds

Marketing

Marketing Elective (IV Trimester)		Marketing Elective (V Trimester)
EM224001	Product and Brand Management	EM225001	Marketing Analytics
EM224002	Customer Relationship Management	EM225002	Rural & Agri Marketing
EM224003	Digital & Social Media Marketing	EM225004	Global Marketing Management l Marketing Management
EM224503	Integrated Marketing Communications	EM225005	Social Marketing
EM224404	Sales and Distribution Management	EM225207	Consumer Behaviour
EM224405	Services Marketing	EM225504	Strategic Marketing

Human Resource

HR Elective (IV Trimester)		HR Elective (V Trimester)
EHR224001	Contemporary HRM	EHR225002	Balanced Scorecard
EHR224002	Industrial Relations	EHR225224	Organization Development
EHR224003	HR Auditing	EHR225225	Learning and Development
EHR224004	Cross Cultural Management	EHR225307	Leadership and Change Management
EHR224312	Talent Management	EHR225508	HR Analytics
EHR224408	Strategic Human Resource Management

Operations

Operations Elective (IV Trimester)		Operations Elective (V Trimester)
EOP224001	Supply Chain Management	EOP225001	Total Quality Management
EOP224002	Management of Service Operations	EOP225002	Strategic Sourcing
EOP224003	Lean Management	EOP225003	Warehouse Management
EOP224004	Optimization Models for Industry	EOP225004	Technology and Innovations Management
EOP224005	Operations Strategy	EOP225005	Advanced Inventory Modelling
		EOP225006	Operations Analytics

Business Analytics

Business Analytics Elective (IV Trimester)		Business Analytics Elective (V Trimester)
EBA214001	R for Data Science and Machine Learning	EBA215001	Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence using Advanced Python
EBA214002	Python for Data Science and Machine Learning	EBA215002	Big Data Analytics
EBA214003	Web and Social Media Analytics	EBA215003	SQL for Data Science
EBA214004	Data Visualization using Tableau	EBA215004	Mastering Data Analytics using SAS
EBA214005	Business Intelligence using PowerBI

Systems

Systems Elective (IV Trimester)		Systems Elective (V Trimester)
ESY214001	Cloud Computing for Business	ESY215001	Cyber Security and Cyber Laws
ESY214002	Enterprise Resource Planning	ESY215002	IT Infrastructure
ESY214003	Data Modelling with R and Python	ESY215003	e-Commerce
ESY214004	Data Visualising using Advanced Excel	ESY215004	Data Mining and Business Intelligence
ESY214005	Relational Database Management system	ESY215005	Digital Governance

Economics

Economics Elective (IV Trimester)		Economics Elective (V Trimester)
EECO224001	Industrial Economics	EECO225001	Natural Resource Management
EECO224002	Public Finance	EECO225002	Energy Economics
EECO224003	Urban Economics	EECO225003	Econometrics
EECO224004	Agricultural Economics	EECO225004	Contemporary Government Policies & Business
EECO224005	Environmental Economics	EECO225005	Monetary Economics
EECO224006	International Economics	EECO225006	Economics of Infrastructure
EECO224007	Mathematical Economics	EECO225007	Digital Economy

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Elective (IV Trimester)		Entrepreneurship Elective (V Trimester)
EENT224001	Entrepreneurial Finance	EENT225001	Corporate Entrepreneurship
EENT224002	Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation	EENT225002	Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
EENT224003	Family Business Management	EENT225003	Detailed Project Report (DPR) -Compulsory in nature

NOTE : The list of subjects is indicative. The Institute reserves the right to make modifications at any point during the programme as per the market needs.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Eligibility

The candidates must hold a Bachelor’s Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA. (45% in case of SC/ST candidates), from a UGC recognized university/deemed university recognized by the Ministry of HRD, GoI.

Curriculum and Pedagogy

The program has the state-of-the-art curriculum in emerging finance areas such as Fintech, Financial Modelling, Financial Analytics, Risk Management & Derivatives, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity etc. with the thrust on market orientation along with changing banking and financial sector reforms. The curriculum offered in this program is very robust and it includes Management of Banking & Financial Services aspects and integrated with adequate field exposure component. To provide the practical experience in classrooms, the pedagogy includes case studies, simulations, team activities, workshops, guest lectures from industry captains, conferences & seminars and industrial visits.

Selection Procedure

Step-1 Candidates have to appear in any one of the
admission test (CAT / XAT / MAT/ ATMA / CMAT / GMAT ).

Step-2 Register for IPE Admissions online.

Step-3 Short listed candidates will be called for Group
Discussions and Personal Interviews to be held at IPE
Hyderabad and in major cities. Timely updates on the
same will be posted to all the applicants by Team
Admissions

IPE website provides updates time to time on Course, Hostel and Transport,and Fee details

Practical Application Learning:

To learn the usage of Industry application databases such as CMIE Prowess,INDIASTAT, EPWRFITS, INFLIBNET, etc. to do market research.
To learn technical and practical aspects of the courses, there is a Summer Internship Programme (SIP) for six weeks to attain the employability quotient under the guidance of both faculty & industry mentors.
To cultivate research skills, there is a research project on Banking and Financial Services in the last Term to enhance their ability to specialize on advanced topics of their own choice.
To create industry and market awareness, National & International Visits (Europe & Asian countries) to provide an opportunity to understand the global practices in their field.
The program also offers experiential learning opportunity as a part of industry outreach program for the students and conducted national visits to experience capital market operations with real time insights. The companies and the institutions visited by the students are: Chermas, Stanza Apparels & Bailley Water, Namaste Telangana, NISM, National Stock Exchange, etc.

The program also offers experiential learning opportunity as a part of industry outreach program for the students and conducted national visits to experience capital market operations with real time insights. The companies and the institutions visited by the students are: Chermas, Stanza Apparels & Bailley Water, Namaste Telangana, NISM, National Stock Exchange, etc.

PROGRAM’S PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

By design, this program facilitates placement of candidates in banks, financial Institutions, insurance sector and other non-banking financial companies and financial departments of corporations. The faculty and students actively participate in placements in collaboration with the Placement Division. Some of the companies that regularly recruit PGDM – BIF students include Tata Consultancy Services, Capital First, KPMG, Deloitte India, Axis Bank, Cognizant, SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd., State Bank of Hyderabad, Bank of Baroda, Karur Vysya Bank, Axis Bank, Capital IQ, Crecer Financial Services, Franklin Templeton, IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya Bank, ICICI Securities Ltd., ICICI Securities, IIFL, etc.

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FOR THE YEAR 2024 - 2026

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