POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

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PGDM IN Banking & FINANCIAL Services

The Post Graduate Diploma in Management in Banking and Financial Services (PGDM – BFS) which started in 2008 is a two year full time program approved by All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE).

The program is designed to groom future managers who can successfully handle complex business issues. In the changing global scenario, innovation is a major driving force for achieving competitive advantage through creation of new business opportunities. To meet this challenge there is a huge requirement of trained banking and financial professionals in the country. The program aims to churn out skilled and talented Finance and Management professionals to fulfil the requirement of the corporate sector in general and Banking and Financial Services sector in particular. This rigorous training at IPE would enable them to be industry-ready.

Key Highlights

Dual Electives offered from the range of management areas – Finance, Marketing, Operations, Human Resource Management, Systems etc. Industry oriented curriculum. ERP training and SAP module.
Certification in collaboration with NISM (National Institute of Securities Markets)
Continuous student interaction with Industry Captains.
Encouragement to students for participation in national B-schools events.

Programme Educational Objectives

To impart knowledge on a wide range of concepts relating to management, banking and financial services.
To enhance capabilities for critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making through the 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 & Financial Services in particular.

Program outcomes

Have a thorough understanding of concepts relating to management, banking 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 & Financial Services, with due focus on ethical aspects

CURRICULUM

First Year

Trimester I
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF1101	Management and Organizational Behaviour	3
21BIF1102	Statistics for Management	3
21BIF1103	Economics for Managers	3
21BIF1104	Financial Accounting	3
21BIF1105	Personality Development and Business Communication	3
21BIF1109	Marketing Management	3
21BIF1110	Management of Bank Operations	3
Total Credits		21

Trimester II
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF2112	Human Resource Management	3
21BIF2201	Operations Research	3
21BIF2202	Financial Management	3
21BIF2203	Macro Economics	3
21BIF2208	IT Applications and FinTech	3
21BIF2209	Principles and Practices of Life Insurance	3
21BIF2210	Financial Markets, Institutions and Services	3
21BIF2107	Foreign Language – French	3
Total Credits		24

Second Year

Trimester III
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF3301	Production and Operations Management	3
21BIF3302	Cost and Management Accounting	2
21BIF3303	Business Analytics for Managers	3
21BIF3304	Marketing Research	3
21BIF3305	Priming for Placements (Business Aptitude)	3
21BIF3306	Start Ups and Entrepreneurship	3
21BIF3308	Principles and Practices of General Insurance	3
21BIF3CIS	Contemporary Issues/Seminars	1
21BIF3CV	Comprehensive Viva	1

Total Credits		22

Trimester IV
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF4401	Strategic Management	3
21BIF4406	Legal Environment for BIF	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 1	3
	Elective 1 – Subject 2	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 1	3
	Elective 2 – Subject 2	3
21BIFSIP	SIP & Viva Voce	3
Total Credits		21

Summer Internship Project (SIP) 8 weeks

Trimester V
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF5501	Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility	3
21BIF5506	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		18

Trimester VI
Course Code	Course Name	Credits
21BIF6606	Retail Banking, Rural Banking and Micro Finance	3
21BIF6607	Management of Pension Funds	2
21BIF6608	Project & Infrastructure Management and Financing	2
21BIF6609	Actuarial Concepts and Principles	2
21BIF6RP	Long Term Research Project	3
21BIF6CV	Comprehensive Viva	2
Total Credits		14

Term	Credits
1	21
2	24
3	22
4	21
5	18
6	14
Total No. of Credits	120

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

1. Risk Management
2. Financial Analysis and Credit Management
3. Derivatives and Structured Finance
4. Financial Modelling
5. Financial Planning and Wealth Management
6. Security Analysis and Portfolio Mgmt
7. Tax Planning and Management
8. Corporate Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions
9. Entrepreneurial Finance
10. Strategic Financial Management
11. Strategic Cost Management
12. Financial Analytics
13. Foreign Exchange Arithmetic
14. Private Equity
15. Fixed Income Securities
16. Financial Econometrics
17. Mutual Funds

Marketing

1. Product and Brand Management
2. Integrated Marketing Communications
3. Consumer Behaviour
4. Services Marketing
5. Customer Relationship Management
6. B2B Marketing
7. Strategic Marketing
8. Digital Marketing
9. Rural Marketing
10. Agri-Business Marketing
11. Sales and Distribution Management
12. Retail Management
13. Global Marketing Management
14. Social Marketing
15. Media Management
16. Marketing Analytics

Human Resource

1. Learning and Development
2. Contemporary HRM
3. Industrial Relations I
4. Industrial Relations II
5. Talent Management
6. Organization Development
7. Cross Cultural Management
8. Leadership and Change Management
9. Balanced Scorecard
10. Strategic Human Resource Management
11. HR Auditing
12. HR Analytics

Operations

1. Supply Chain Management
2. Management of Service Operations
3. Total Quality Management
4. Lean Management
5. Optimization Models for Industry
6. Operations Strategy
7. Strategic Sourcing
8. Warehouse Management
9. Technology and Innovations Management
10. Advanced Inventory Modelling
11. Operations Analytics

Systems

1. Cloud Computing for Business
2. Enterprise Resource Planning
3. Relational Database Management system
4. e-Commerce
5. Data Mining and Business Intelligence
6. Data Modelling with R and Python
7. Data Visualising using Advanced Excel
8. Data Visualising using Tableau
9. Digital Governance
10. Cyber Security and Cyber Laws
11. IT Infrastructure

Economics

1. Industrial Economics
2. Public Finance
3. Urban Economics
4. Digital Economy
5. Natural Resource Management
6. Energy Economics
7. Environmental Economics
8. Econometrics
9. Contemporary Government Policies & Business
10. Monetary Economics
11. Economics of Infrastructure
12. Agricultural Economics
13. Mathematical Economics
14. International Economics
15. Green Economy

Entrepreneurship

1. Creating a New Venture from Idea to launch
2. Entrepreneurial Finance
3. Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
4. Digital Marketing for Startups and SMEs
5. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
6. Family Business Management
7. Corporate Entrepreneurship
8. Business Model for Sustainable Growth
9. Aligning Startups with their Market
10. Detailed Project Report (DPR)

Business Analytics

1. R Studio for Data Science and Machine Learning (ver.1.2.1335)
2. Python for Data Science and Machine Learning (ver.3.7.3)
3. Data Visualising using Tableau
4. Web and Social Media Analytics
5. Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence using R Studio (ver.1.2.1335)
6. Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence using Advanced Python (ver.3.7.3)
7. Big Data Analytics
8. SQL for Data Science

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 2022 - 2024

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