KIIT School of Management (KSOM) has a long history of academic excellence, providing industry-focused management education. It was founded in 1993 as Institute of Business Administration and Training (IBAT) with a vision to make it a trend setting centre for business education, where young minds are provided the right balance of classroom learning and practical exposure to turn into successful professionals and inspiring leaders.

Today, as part of the prestigious KIIT University, KSOM has delivered on that vision. It has extended its area of influence from Eastern India to the whole country and already has many impressive achievements to its credit. NAAC has rated KSOM in A grade.

This is an institution that believes in making business education highly relevant through constant course updates, regular industries interaction, hands-on exposure, faculty with right mix of industry and academic experience and more importantly a deep sense of responsibility to the society at large.

Vision

•  To create an advanced centre of professional learning of international standing where pursuit of knowledge and excellence shall reign supreme, unfettered by the barriers of nationality, language, cultural plurality and religion. 

Mission 

• Imparting quality value based education of international standard and imbibing skill for solving real life problems.
• Inculcating global perspective in attitude
• Creating leadership qualities with futuristic vision
• Fostering spirit of entrepreneurship and realisation of societal responsibilities
• Cultivating adaptation of ethics, morality and healthy practices in professional life.
• Instilling habit of continual learning
• Encouraging and supporting creative abilities and research temperament
• Establishing and promoting close interaction with industries and other utility sectors and keeping abreast with state-of-the-art technology

Prof. Debasish Das, Director

PGDM, XLRI Jamshedpur, B. E. NIT Rourkela

Debasish Das is a management professional with over 25 years of experience in Human Resources, Quality, Administration, Sales, Contracts and IT functions – across Power, IT, Telecom, BPO, Airlines and Education businesses. His professional experience includes working in start-up as well as mezzanine and operationally stable companies. He has led teams consisting of employees of various nationalities of Asia, Africa, North America, Europe and worked with global managers from US, France, UK and India.

His expertises are in the domains of Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, People System Analytics and Organizational Gaming. Prior to taking over the role of Director, KIIT School of Management, KIIT University he was working as Chief People Officer at Trans Maldivian Airways (a Blackstone Company) where he was responsible for HR Strategies and all HR deliverables for the company.

He has also worked as Global HR Head of Spanco BPO Ventures, Leader – HR Business Control & Automation for IBM and Head HR – Financial Services (India and Philippines) at GE Capital. He did his PGDM from XLRI Jamshedpur (1992-94) in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations and completed his B. E. from NIT, Rourkela. He is also an alumnus of Berhampur University from where he did his Intermediate in Science.

Master of Business Administration

Course Descrpition

• The core and elective courses are delivered over 4 semester of 20 weeks duration for each semester and a summer project of 8 weeks duration after the 2nd semesters (OJT)
• There are 17 core courses in the first year and one core course plus elective courses equivalent to 32 credits in the second year covering seven functional areas. 
•  It is compulsory for a students to select at least ONE area of concentration from the functional areas “Marketing”, “HR”, “Finance and Accounting”, “Information Technology”, “Technology and Operations”. 

Specialization offered are:

• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Management
• Financial Management
• Information Technology Management
• Technology and Operations Management

Eligibility

• A candidate must be a graduate in any discipline with 50% aggregate marks from any university 
• A candidate must have 50% aggregate marks (or equivalent CGPA) in the 10th and 12th board examinations
• Candidates appearing for the final examination for the Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent examination) and expected to complete all the requirements for obtaining the Bachelor’s degree by 30th June, 2019 can also apply, subject to submission of all the required documents to that effect by 30th September, 2019

NRI candidate 

• Foreign/NRI candidates will have the above eligibility for applying for the MBA programme and they are required to submit the filled-up application form along with the requisite documents and application fee of US $50. They will be considered for admission process on the basis of their valid GMAT scores (appeared in year 2018).

Selection Criteria

• Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their KIITEE MGT/CAT/XAT/CMAT/MAT/GMAT Scores for appearing in the Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI).
• The final selection will be based on Entrance score, career marks and performance in GD&PI

The GD&PI will be conducted at New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneswar

Placement Highlights 2017-18

• Highest  International Salary: 15.13 Lacs
• Highest Domestic Salary: 12 Lacs
• Average Salary: 6.2 Lacs

Some of the recruiting companies 

• KHIMJI RAMDAS LLC
• SOBHA LLC
• TRAFIGURA
• DELL
• BAJAJ FINSERV
• SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
• ITC HOTELS
• ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
• SURESTEP PCDM (MICROSOFT)
• AFCONS INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
• SBI CARDS & PAYMENT SERVICES PVT. LTD.
• DIGICHAMPS
• EMA PARTNERS
• H&R JOHNSON
• THE HACKETT GROUP
• VODAFONE
• ICICI BANK
• YES BANK