MBA in Advanced Project Management

Project Management is ultimately about influencing people at all levels and ensuring that all the separate work streams are delivered to specification, completed in a timely manner, meet or are below designated budgets, follow regulatory or legal mandates & requirements, and assist in identifying new approaches based on the underlying engineering and economic principles

Note:

• Support for National or International certification based on program will be provided subject to conditions
• 8-10 Weeks Summer Internship is a part of two-year programmes

What You'll Learn

• Strong theoretical and practical project management skills.
• Conceptualization, planning, scheduling, control, and delivery of complex projects with minimal supervision.
• Demonstration of ethical approach, professionalism, and governance to work in project teams both locally and globally.

Programme at a Glance

• The MBA APM is one of the most sought Programme since its inception. This Programme provides an extensive study in performance of completed projects. This Programme builds upon the concepts and practices of project engineering and management aspects with project practices.

Semester 1

• Kickstart your academic journey with foundational knowledge of project management Principles and Practices, managing project communications and business decision making from a theoretical point of view. In this semester, you become well versed with the very essentials of accounting, managerial economics and business development and project marketing required for managing the projects.

Accounting and Finance

• Acquire knowledge of the principles and techniques of management accounting and financial management, and evaluate and develop analytic abilities.

Managerial Economics

• Get insights into the key concepts, principles, tools, and techniques of Managerial Economics in analyzing the business/industry/project environment.

Quantitative Techniques in Management

• Understand basic statistical concepts; quantitative techniques for optimal utilization of the organizational resources to enhance bottom-line performance

Marketing Management

• Get knowledge of basic aspects of business-to-business (B2B) marketing and project marketing strategies and practices.

Human Resource and Organisation Behaviour

• Assess and manage behavior of individuals and groups at the workplace; design and implementation of organizational systems.

Business Communication

• Get acquainted with various strategies and aspects of business and project communications.

Project Management

• Understand essentials of professional project management conduct; global project management methodologies and standards.

Legal Aspects and Industrial Relations

• Evaluate the laws relating to contracts, property and infrastructure laws, labor welfare, and environmental issues relating to project management.

Swayam

• A comprehensive transdisciplinary and holistic understanding and basic sensitivity towards Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Semester 2

• Plunge into the legal, operational, and managerial side of project management in this semester. This semester will help you acquire core competencies in concepts like contract and property laws, project risks, formulation and planning, and quality management. The semester concludes with an exciting internship opportunity that helps you gain professional experience and industry exposure.

Operations Management

• Understand different operations management tools for cost optimization and develop an independent and life-long skill set for continuous improvement.

Project Formulation and Appraisal

• Analyze and formulate a project feasibility report in all aspects, to understand the various project financing methods and develop DPR.

Managerial Skills

• Develop managerial communication and presentation skills of students and prepare them to communicate with confidence in project/ business scenarios.

Strategic Management

• To analyze and evaluate real life business situations based on the concepts of strategic management to create strategic alternatives and enable the best possible decision-making.

Advanced Operations Research

• Develop understanding of mathematically modeling real-life optimization problems and solve these models with the help of the available advanced methods of Operations Research.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• Understand important issues related to starting a business, issues important to the day-to-day operations of an entrepreneurial enterprise, strategic importance of innovation; ways and means to deal with innovation.

Research Methodology and Project Seminar

• Develop your understanding of valuation methods and techniques with reference to real properties through case studies and exercises to give an understanding of the practice.

Swayam

• Identify an idea and conceptualize a digital solution for the same using modern tools and techniques.

Summer Internship

• Gain professional experience and industry exposure.

Semester 3

• With the onset of this semester, you will dive deeper into analysis and evaluation of the managerial and governance aspects that make up a large-scale project. Encompassing a comprehensive series of 18 courses, this semester is where you take your project management learnings to the next level.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• Evaluate supply chain plans and coordinate with the supply chain partners using appropriate frameworks for attaining supply chain objectives to enhance competitiveness.

Strategic Management

• To analyze and evaluate real life business situations based on the concepts of strategic management to create strategic alternatives and enable the best possible decision-making.

Social Cost Benefit Analysis

• Formulate and develop a basic proficiency in conducting SCBA relevant to appraising a project/policy.

Enterprise Resource Planning

• Get inputs on different ERP modules and the package selection process supported by hands-on practical sessions on MS-Dynamics AX 2009 ERP package to improve the business performance.

Building Information Modelling and Digital Transformations in Projects

• In-depth understanding of digital advancements, knowledge, and experience with emerging digital technologies as part of the fourth industrial revolution.

Project Management for Education

• Get knowledge and skills required to plan, implement and review education projects.

Management of Infrastructure Projects

• Deal with the processes and policies of infrastructure development and give an understanding of the mechanism of delivering infrastructure projects and related services.

Project Management in Health and Community Services

• Analyze healthcare project data using advanced project management tools and methodologies in the formulation and implementation phases.

Site Administration and Control

• Develop fundamentals of project coordination and supervision and resolve the technical problems at construction sites.

Management of Launching Systems in Bridge Projects

• Understand the fundamentals of construction equipment and machinery, as well as their planning and management for bridge projects.

Management of MEP Projects - I

• Develop the skills to interpret building services drawings and facilitate the operation of MEP services.

Semester 4

• The program concludes with a high-level understanding of global and rural project management, relevant urbanization dynamics, project financing, and more. Get hands on with tools and techniques that help you learn how to optimize costs and energy consumption. Also indulge in project work to utilize research methods that help you arrive at optimum solutions to the problems at hand.

Management of Global Projects

• Understand challenges, opportunities, frameworks and strategic benefits involved in successful delivery of international projects.

Project Finance

• Understand various forms of fund-raising avenues in projects, credit risk assessment, fundamentals of economic viability in projects.

Project Management for Smart Cities

• Understand relevant dynamics in urbanization and impart the skills required for the management of Smart Cities for better resilience. Develop the core fundamentals of anticipated complications that accompany future urbanization.

Public Private Partnership

• Deal with the mechanisms, benefits and contracts involved in public private partnership projects.

Project Management for Rural Development

• Get knowledge and skills required to select, formulate, implement and control rural projects.

Project Management in Software Development Projects

• Successfully manage a software project by learning all aspects of the software project management process, which can be applied to any type of software project.

Management of New Product Development Projects

• An in-depth understanding of planning, organizing and delivering research and development projects catering to the production of novel goods and services.

Management of Renewable Energy Projects and Energy

• Get acquainted with procedures and steps to calculate benchmarking of energy consumption of various equipment.

Management of MEP Projects - II

• Develop the technical and managerial aspects towards selection, commissioning and testing of various components of MEP services (building services) and to understand the concepts related to process piping.

BIM for MEP Projects

• Develop the capability to analyze and evaluate alternative designs for real-world MEP projects using BIM tools in order to optimize cost and energy consumption.

Project Work

• Understand and use research methods and critically examine their research topic and arrive at coherent conclusions and suggestions.

Career opportunities

• Project planning
• Risk management
• Contracts
• Project management consultancy