Department of Management Studies IIT Madras

Department of Management Studies, IIT MadrasEstablished 2004Head Prof. L. Prakash saiLocation Chennai, IndiaEnrollment 60 70 studentsHomepage http://www. doms. iitm. ac. in

The Department of Management Studies of IIT Madras, also known as DoMS, IIT Madras is a business school under the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India.

IIT Madras was established in 1959. The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras offered management education in the form of M. Tech. (Industrial Engineering) from 1959 A MBA program was started by the department in 2001. The Department of Management Studies came into existence in April 2004.

The department offers MBA, PGPEX VLM, MS, and PhD degrees.

The MBA program is a two year program, structured with courses spread over seven quarters and about five to six courses per quarter. The first year contains core courses that are compulsory for all students, whereas the second year mostly has electives and a few core courses. In the summer break between the first and second year, students work on a summer project with a company. Apart from regular academics, course activities include taking courses on audit, field visits, participating in management workshops, organizing professional events and working on live business projects. The program includes three core courses on Industrial and Business Domains spread over the last three quarters. Students of the program can opt for auditing courses (i. e. taking classes but not assignments or exams and not receiving credits) from any of the elective courses offered by the Department of Management Studies or from the more than 300 courses offered by the other 14 departments in the institute. Co curricular courses offered at the department include business communication and presentation skills, negotiation skills, teamwork and conflict resolution skills, time management, business etiquette, and foreign languages (primarily German). The batch size is in the range of 60 to 70 students, picked from over 250,000 applicants who take up the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management followed by a Group Task/Personal interview session later on. Until 2011 admission was based on the Joint Management Entrance Test conducted by the IITs and Indian Institute of Science in rotation. From the academic year 2012 JMET is replaced with the Common Admission Test.

Postgraduate programme for executives For visionary leadership in manufacturing (PGPEX VLM) is a year long joint program of IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras. It is an initiative of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, government of India, for career development/advancement of engineers/ executives with work experience. The PGPEX VLM program was designed by the IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras in consultation with industry, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), NMCC and MHRD. The government of Japan extends cooperation to support transfer of Japanese expertise and visit to manufacturing centers of excellence in Japan for the PGPEX VLM Programs, through JICA. Approximate batch size is 35 40.

Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras ranked 10th amongst management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022. was inaugurated by Mr K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services. Some of the recurring events are business plan contest, panel discussion by industry experts, online quizzing and events on finance, marketing, operations, HR and consulting.

ICON or Inter Corporate Outbound National Championship is a sporting event organized by DoMS, IITM for the corporate community. Teams spanning the country are pitted against each other to demonstrate their teamwork and leadership skills in a fun filled informal way.

In CEO connect business leaders are invited to the campus, to share their experiences. The essence of the event is to provide the students an opportunity to get a perspective from the captains of the industry.

Managers are invited for lectures and workshops.

Management Insights for Social Transformation (MIST) is a forum in the department which invites philanthropists, who have reached out to the society, to share their experiences and enrich the students in their attitude towards the society.

Started in 2011, the Invitation Lecture Series initiative is a lecture event.

DoMS INTERFACE is an initiative to develop a forum whose objective is to be a program communication link to the outside world which includes corporate world, prospective students, alumni and media.

The department has a Memorandum of Understanding with Mannheim Business School Germany for exchange of students and faculty. The students at either universities do courses from the other for a semester.

In November 2007, DoMS IIT Madras & The Indian School of Business (ISB) inked a pact for collaborative research.