I had put this as an update to my earlier post the MBA game. But then I decided this was too good to be true – it deserves a post all by itself.
MBA after 10th! “Management Studies through Early Intervention for a Borderless Corporate World”.
A New Paradigm in Management Studies, Corporate Institute of Management’s path breaking concept launched in India.
Blah Blah. Full page ad in Mumbai Mirror.
Contact : Corporate Institute of Managament. Blah blah. Goregaon (W), Mumbai – 62
A New Paradigm alright. (Will put up a link when I find it)…
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And while on this, I was searching in Fabmall for some books and I noticed that Arindam Chaudhuri’s book Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch is to be found under the Humorous Section.
Ahem. No comments – from me. Yours welcome as always.
I am sure Rashmi Bansal agrees with this one…
My, ask me. I have worked at one such place, usually ranked from 15-20 in various surveys and what @#$%^^&*@### place it was. Thinking about it, I still get creeps.
the survey methodology is very suspect. i remember seeing something either in India today or outlook – a half page appeal – where the mag asked principals to be honest while filling in the questionairre. i am not sure that the surveys are being done by ‘independent’ authorities. and yes the course is crap. i was asked to take a look at hte Rai Univ’s media course by a student – it was scary. on paper they delivered what Columbia or some such univ has to offer. the reality is that there aren’t the people, the infrastructure or the research available to deliver the course.
arindham choudri’s approach to selling his course is ‘rok sake to rok lo’ 🙂
i liked what rashmi did on both Amity and IIPM. very good journalism. wish that MSM carried such stories instead of the full page ads.
Can you leave me a link to Amity and IIPM stories? I am very interested.
I found the link, had just come back after taking a class and asked first and then looked. Excellent work on IIPM.
Is it only for people who have passed 10th? Things brings me memories of 10th Fail join +2 hoardings in Chennai.
I am reminded of a Tamil film in which a guy runs Gajini Tutorials (where all Class I failures can get a BA degree). I even remember the dialogue: “Madras University…No chance. But there is Bhagalpur. I’ll get you a degree from there.” This is the sad state in our country. All you need is cash – any piece of paper that makes you a degree-holder is yours.
For instance, Tamil Nadu has 234 electoral constituencies and 236 engineering colleges! Roughly a college per constituency. Some 1 lakh “engineers” are churned out year. Who the hell can provide jobs to these guys and girls work? Why, call centres of course. What a shame! First we had the engineering fad, then the computer education racket (SAP, crap, etcetera), now it’s the MBA. What next?
On the point that MBAs are bad for the country’s health, I think institutes need to shed the Western mode of thinking, tailor their syllabi and train their students to meet the challenges of the Indian market. Otherwise you are going to end up with thousands of misfits.
Mridula, I wonder what kind of experience you had at such a school…. one ranked pretty okay at that…
Rashmi Bansal’s pieces on the IIPM and Amity courses is excellent…
Harini, rok sako to rok lo… I remember a reviewer called it ‘dekh sako to dekh lo’ 🙂
A friend of mine recently met someone from that institute during a meeting with another client. And she came away pretty dazed. Must blog about it some time…
Yup about the survey methodology – suspect as most surveys are 🙂 especially those carried out by private colleges / magazines and the like…
Kaps, 10th fail, join +2 is terribly okay compared to THIS. And they proudly call it a New Paradigm. What next, 10th pass, join MD?
Cram, does one really fail in Class I? :))
We already have misfits in the system – which is what I had said in a response to a comment on my earlier post – that people with such degrees would expect the earth and sky and are bound to get frustrated very soon. and then what?
Hi Charu
I think such institutes were started to help people who had to discontinue studies at an early stage. As always, the whole thing just degenerated into a buy-a-degree mechanism, where lack of grey matter is no matter.
Your comment got me thinking. Actually, in the movie the institute admits anyone who has attended Class I. It’s a terrific satire on the state of education, and this was about 20 years ago. Satire is pretty rare in Tamil cinema, which is why I remember it after all these years. Things only seem to have become worse, be it education or cinema.
Perhaps we also need to visit the topic of why the middle class is obsessed with making their children engineers, doctors and/or MBAs. Does society need only these professionals? What about other professions? Why are we unable to think beyond B.Tech and MBBS?
Ciao
Ram, this obsession with engineering and medicine degrees, I have never understood. I know my own parents were disappointed when I did not show the least interest in any of these and went on to join the commerce stream. gasp! and then went on to get a BA degree 🙂
MBA is the latest fad – maybe because people have seen too many jobless doctors and engineers?
hey every day i get some spam or the other promising me a PHD from some univ in the usa – for some decent money.
and in 3 months.
i look forward to meeting a phd form wanasee university very soon 🙂
Hey, I wannasee a PhD soon too 🙂
my brother has given the exam of 10 th. so he want to do mba from u r univerity so pl more information about ur collage.
Nice blog.
Thank you.