Academic/Experience Requirements

Please list any academic or work experience prerequisites or recommendations or restrictions for student applicants.

To do a term at IIMB, one should be currently an MBA student or equivalent in a post programme.  He/she should be in his/her second year of the programme and must have completed the foundation course at the home institution.  Undergraduate or first year students are not eligible to participate in the exchange programme.  If the student is in an integrated course of bachelor and master level programme, the student must be in his/her fifth year.

Full-time Workload:

Approximately how many courses are in a full-time load?  How many credits per semester? How many contact hours per course? How many weeks do courses run?

• Courses are usually 3 credits each but can be 1.5 credits as well. One credit implies 10 contact hours in the classroom.  Most courses will require an average of about two hours of work outside the classroom in the form of readings, assignments, projects, etc., for every hour of classroom contact. The number of credit hours taken by exchange students is determined by their school. Usually, exchange students find the program to be rigorous academically and take four or five 3-credit courses.

Learning Expectations:

What is class format?  How are class participation and attendance evaluated? What are class sizes?

• The class format may be any one of these formats or a combination there of: Lectures, classroom discussions, case studies, individual and group projects, term papers, role plays, student projects, dissertations, business games and films. Every course will have a clear calendar of sessions and this will be made available to the students by the PostGraduate Programme (PGP) office on the first day of the term. Minimum attendance of 80 percent is required in every course. The PGP Office will keep a record of attendance in all courses. Students who do not meet the minimum attendance norm in a course will be awarded one full grade point lower than that secured by them in that course. This will be done by the PGP office and the teaching faculty concerned will be informed of the same. The size of the class depends upon the number of students opting for a particular course. But there should be a minimum of fifteen students in a particular course, if it is to be taught.

Grading:

Summer programs or short-term Programs:

Does your school offer any programs outside the semester exchange that are open to exchange students?  If so, please describe.

• We will intimate to the partner schools once the schedules are finalized.