Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) is aimed at impelling students and fostering their managerial and leadership skills.
One key aspect of the PGDM curriculum design and pedagogy, especially on the topic of curricula and learning, is to develop students' managerial skills and competencies to use management theories and concepts to apply them in practice to ethical issues and problems that exist in the business world and industry. Pedagogy is "learning centric" and not "teaching centric". The methods of pedagogy are interactive and participative, with a variety of methods such as fieldwork, case studies, simulation games, role playing, simulation games, groups discussion, experience based activities, film reviews, application of theories, structured and un-structured group work, and project work based on industry engagement activities. The expectation is for students to attain high levels of excellence. The focus is mainly on engaging the learners at high levels of cognitive demand and helping them relate concepts and theories to the realities of the business world.
The first three trimesters are, in essence, designed to develop understanding of the basic concepts across functional areas to provide the student with an integrated learning journey, or learning experience. This includes Core Compulsory courses across the functional areas of management. The fourth and fifth trimesters focus on courses that have a primary emphasis on elective courses, based on agreed, or mutual, area of specialization.