Bharathidasan Institute of Management Bangalore, Fees, Courses, Admission Date Updates

He remained a prolific writer and poet till he died in 1964. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award posthumously.

In August 1984 Bharat Ratna Shri. C.Subramanian along with Prof. P.S.Mani Sundaram the Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University chaired a meeting of leading academicians and Industrialists and an idea was born. Their dream was to create an Academy that would be

Grounded in strong theoretical inputs
Have proactive partnership with a large organization
Provide students with a REAL WORLD learning environment

With this vision in mind a partnership was signed with BHEL to create the country's first ever Management Institute that would be housed inside an industrial giant. Thus was born Bharathidasan Institute of Management - School of Excellence. BIM offers one of the most coveted MBA programmes in India. Entry to this course is regulated through a rigorous selection process. BIM has an annual intake of 120 students.

Strengths
Direct linkage with the industry
A highly rigorous and contemporary curriculum

The curriculum at BIM is kept contemporary and relevant to the needs of the industry. This is achieved by a comprehensive revamping effort that takes place every year which is driven by noted academicians and industrialists.
Excellent Faculty

BIM boasts of a faculty profile that would make any institution proud. The core faculty in the various streams are backed with academic knowledge and industry experience and they actively work on research projects throughout the year. The academic structure at BIM is such that the academic inputs provided by the core faculty is backed by industrial knowledge imparted by the Guest Lectures. The visiting faculty are also carefully chosen to ensure only the best teach at BIM.
Impressive Student Profile

The students at BIM come from a multitude of educational backgrounds. While roughly half of the students are engineers the rest is composed of a melange of commerce arts and science graduates. Candidates with prior work experience are preferred but outstanding freshers are also encouraged. This is substantiated by the fact that more than half the class enters the course backed with prior experience in the industry.

Focused Career Planning and Placement leading to challenging management positions.

Collaborations
BIM-BHEL

BIM has pioneered the concept of a business school with an industry linkage through its symbiotic relationship with BHEL since its inception in 1984. This unique association has benefited the students by providing the much needed practical exposure to supplement the strong theoretical inputs.

The following quote by Dr. M.D Athreya - renowned management consultant sums up the above relationship: The young men and women of BIM are keenly absorbing the unique benefits of a close association with BHEL.

Senior Executives of BHEL anchor courses particularly in the areas of Operations, Management and Systems. BIM conducts a number of Executive Development Programs for BHEL in the areas of Corporate Finance, Marketing and Organizational Behaviour. Students also take-up various projects offered by BHEL in different functional areas of management.
BIM-CORPORATE

BIM has forged a tie-up with CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) for developing systems and methodologies for finding solutions to problems faced by Small Scale Industries.

Managing Information Technology and using it as a key source of competitive advantage has been recognized as one of the thrust areas for future research and training in BIM and so BIM is interacting with various companies like Wipro Sonata and Ramco Systems in areas like curriculum development training and summer internship. These collaborations provide the students with hands on exposure to leading software packages and get up to date knowledge on emerging trends in the field of Information Technology.

Curriculum

BIM's curriculum is periodically revised and restructured to meet the needs of ever-changing business environment. Experienced professionals from the Industry and Academia take part in this exercise of restructuring. BIM follows a trimester pattern of evaluation. The first year of the course provides rigorous grounding in all fields of management. The second year operates on a cafeteria approach wherein the student is allowed to choose from a range of courses.Business skills such as effective communication computation analytical and critical thinking managing information creativity and aesthetic awareness.
BIM's curriculum reflects:

Comprehensive understanding of the content organization assumptions and values of a variety of academic areas with hands on training on live cases in an industrial setting.
Preparation for all aspects of life beyond the campus including work service and leadership within local and national communities.
An all-round development of the personality through participation in extra-curricular and co-curricular activities.
An urge to participate in governing the Institute to provide input to the faculty for developing academic programs and to enrich its cultural environment.
An appreciation of the diversity of cultures present in the country.
Sense of loyalty and dedication to the organization.

Marketing

The marketing courses are taught through the use of an innovative learning tool. This tool requires the students to relate all concepts tools and techniques of marketing to a chosen Industry.

The students understand in this process the merits and limitations of applying a conceptual framework. Hence they develop a modified framework that can suit the requirements of the industry.

This approach was successfully practiced by a team of students who did a study on the TATA Indica project and made a presentation of their findings to the TELCO top brass.

Finance
The finance courses emphasize the application of Risk Return Paradigm of finance. The broad areas covered are:

Project Appraisal Planning and Control
Taxation Management
Commercial Bank Management
International Finance and Financial Engineering
Mergers and Acquisitions
Financial Services
Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Derivative Securities

HR

In response to the increasing requirements for HR professionals with contemporary skills in the industry BIMs HRM courses focus on the following areas:

Compensation Management
Advanced Industrial Relations
Strategic Human Resources Management
Performance Management
Competency and Change Management
IR Issues in Emerging Economics
Emerging Trends in HRM
Training and Development

Operations
The focus in this area is on the quantitative underpinnings of Operations Management the recent developments and emerging trends in the practice of Operations Management. The subjects offered are:

Supply Chain Management
Advanced Materials Management
Lean Enterprise for Competitive Advantage

Systems

The focus is on managing Information Technology and using it as a source of competitive advantage. In the era of networked computing security of data and information has assumed tremendous importance. Keeping this in mind various concepts in security procedures and controls are covered in Systems area.

Also offered are the fundamentals of reengineering and implementation strategies using ERP. The role of Information Technology in process redesign is also dealt with in detail.