Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur

Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur

Type	Public business school
Established	1993
Dean	Prof. K.K.Guin
Director	Prof. Partha Pratim Chakraborty
Students	111: MBA (2016–18) 84: MBA (2015–17) 102: MBA (2014–16)
Location	Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Website	www.som.iitkgp.ernet.in

The Vinod Gupta school of Management, IIT Kharagpur (VGSoM),also known as VGSoM, is a public business school located in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. It was the first business school to be established in an IIT. It is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in India and the Asia-Pacific region.

The institute offers a two-year full-time residential Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, a 3 years post graduate MBA degree(EMBA) course for working executives, an advanced programme in management leading to the award of a Ph.D. degree.

The foundation stone of the School building was laid in 1994 by the then president of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma.

VGSoM

History

Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was established in 1993. The Vinod Gupta School of Management was set up as the first school of management within the IIT system.^[1]^[2]

1993

Mr. Vinod Gupta, distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and former CEO and Chairman of InfoGROUP (previously known as InfoUSA), gave a generous endowment of 2 million US Dollars to IIT Kharagpur for setting up a business school within the IIT system. Mr. Gupta's donation was matched by liberal support from the Government of India, and the first business school under the IIT system came up.

The first batch was inducted in 1993 with 13 students. The current building had not come up yet. Facilities of the neighbouring departments were used to hold the classes.

1994

The foundation stone of the School building was laid in 1994 by the then president of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma. The construction of the new building started.

1996

The School moved to the new building (the current premises) in December, 1996.

1998

VGSoM started various short term industry liaison courses and conferences in an endeavour to establish strong institute-industry partnership.

2000

VGSoM tied up with the Royal Danish Embassy, Dhaka in 2000 to provide Management Development Programmes for mid-level managers in Bangladesh.

2004

VGSoM increased student intake for its flagship MBA course to 120.

2010

The Executive MBA (EMBA) programme was started for working executives. This is a unique programme spread over three years, with two years of weekend contact courses delivered simultaneously in the IIT Kharagpur campus in Kolkata and IIT Bhubaneswar campus in Bhubaneswar, and one year of project work undertaken on live problems in the industry.

Ranking

It was ranked 15th in Best B-School survey of 2015 by career360.^[3] It was also ranked all-India 15th (ahead of all other IIT B-schools) by Business Today magazine in their 2016 annual ranking.

Accreditation

VGSoM is accredited by AICTE.

Recognition

VGSoM was awarded the 18th Business School Affaire and Dewang Mehta Business School award for its outstanding contribution to higher education in India.^[4]

Facilities and infrastructure

Library

Students have access to the school's library and the Institute's Central Library, which is one of the largest libraries in Asia.^[5] These two, between them, offer a collection of about 365,000 books, 1,500 journals, 1,700 CDs and videos and 44 national and international scholarly databases.All hostel rooms have internet nodes that connect to a 100 Mbit/s LAN.The school's own computer laboratory is equipped with hardware and software systems.

Hostel

VGSoM provides on-campus residential accommodation facility to all its students. The halls are not exclusively for VGSoM students but are shared with IIT, Kharagpur students from other courses. Hostels are provided for both boys and girls. All the hostels are provided with internet connectivity in each room for which the students have to pay a nominal but compulsory charge.^[6]

Courses offered

Master of Business Administration

Category: Business Administration

Degree: MBA

Mode: Full Time

Medium: Campus

Duration: 2 Years

The main programme currently offered by the School leads to the degree of Master of Business Administration from IIT Kharagpur. This is a full-time four-semester (2 year) residential program.

Executive Master of Business Administration

Category: Executive MBA

Degree: Master's Degree

Mode: Full Time (Week End)

Medium: Campus

Duration: 3 Years

The Executive MBA program is an on-campus full-time course conducted on every weekend (17 Hours of classes per week). The duration of the course is for 3 years with specialization in Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations, IT and Business Analytics. The program includes an International Immersion program along with a 9 months of Management Research. The students are working professionals with experience ranging from 5 years to 20 years coming from different background like IT, Telecom, Manufacturing and Govt.

Doctor of Philosophy in Management

Category: Fellow Programme in Management

Degree: Ph.D.

Mode: Full Time

Medium: Campus

Management Development Programme

Category: Management

Degree: Master's Degree

Mode: Full Time

Medium: Campus

Duration: 3-5 Days

Clubs and committees

Mad (Marketing & Advertising Club)
Finterest (Finance club)
VC2 – The consulting club of VGSoM
ScOpe – (The Supply chain & Operations club)
Entrepreneurship Cell
VGSOM Quiz Club
Olympia – Sports Committee
Drishtee capital – student-run investment fund
Corporate and Media Interaction Cell
Alumni Committee
Placement Committee
Saamanjasya
Admissions Committee
Cultural Committee
Springfest & Kshitij Committee

Events at VGSoM

Purvodaya- Signifying the Rise of East, is the flagship Business fest of VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. Purvodaya is the amalgamation of events spread across all the business domains of management. Purvodaya derives its strong roots from 'MADison Avenue', the national level marketing extravaganza and 'Saamanjasya', a one of a kind Social business event with Inclusive growth as its central theme. Both these events were hugely successful in the past and received tremendous response from both the student fraternity and Industry.

Spread across 3 days, Purvodaya provides the ideal training ground for young managers and future business owners to sharpen their knives, hone their skills and test their wits against their peers before heading out for the actual battle. Apart from the high-intensity clash for supremacy, Purvodaya will also feature the wisdom talks and panel discussions featuring the best from the world of business, eminent academicians and Bureaucrats.^[7]

Kshitij - It is the annual techno-management festival of IIT-Kharagpur. The fest basically concentrates on encouraging new technologies, conducting workshops, guest lectures by famous educationalists and technocrats over the world.
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Alumni

Sourav Niyogi, Managing director, Accenture
Shreya Singh, Vice President (GPCM), HSBC
Shibashish Roy, General Manager, Tata Sons
Gopal Agrawal, Chief Investment Officer, MIRAE Asset
Rabin Roy, Managing Director & CEO, SunCraft Energy Private Limited
Krishna Kumar V, Vice President, IL&FS Transportation Limited
Devarsh Vakil, Head Advisory, HDFC Securities
Deepak Semwal, Chief Manager, Spencers Retail
Shouvik Bhattacharya, Sr. Associate, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, New York
Pranab Sharma, Sr. Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners

Palash Deb, Associate Professor, Strategic Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Sumeet Ladsaongikar, Manager, AT Kearney, London
Deepak Vadehra, Area Manager, Mercedes Benz Trucks^[8]
Subhajit Mazumder, Associate Director, KPMG
Swapan Purkait, Director, Nettech.^[9]
Dr. (Mrs) Prabina Rajib, Professor (Finance & Accounts), Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur^[10]

References

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