Executive MBA

When you graduate, you’ll be able to:

• Navigate complex projects or roles with cross-functional/geographical teams by leveraging cross-domain business understanding & structured problem solving.
• Undertake in-depth projects, develop strategies and perform complex analysis in your function/role driven by expertise gained through specializations.
• Lead teams, functions & organizations towards better performance through enhanced decision making, collaboration & leadership skills.

Why study from IIT Roorkee?

• IIT Roorkee is an institute of national importance and ranks 7th in NIRF rankings. It is considered a trend-setter in the fields of technology, and engineering.
• IIT Roorkee’s historic technology background combined with a distinguished management faculty enables a management degree with a technology focus.
• The faculty for this degree have written/published 600+ research papers across domestic & international journals bringing a research driven expertise to learning.
• The curriculum follows a career first course design, designed to help you leverage learning straight away in your professional roles.

Curriculum

• This degree’s curriculum follows a research backed & career-first philosophy that enables you to develop general business understanding & specialize in domains of your interest.
• You will experience both theoretical knowledge & practical applications. Programme concepts are explained through a combination of readings, real world case studies, classroom interactions, projects and simulations.
• The degree is divided into 8 terms. The 1st four terms will focus on building a solid foundation through core courses and projects and the next four terms will allow you to choose elective courses & undertake projects.

Earn a double specialization

IIT Roorkee’s EMBA allows you to customize your degree as per your career goals. Earn upto a double specialization in domains across marketing, finance, human resources, operations and information technology. There are 55 different electives available across the above 5 domains For you to earn a specialization in the degree you will need to select a minimum of 15 electives out of which electives worth of 12 credits should be in a distinct area (i.e. marketing, finance, HR etc).

Minimum required credits vs additional credits

Each core/elective course & project across eight terms has credits mapped to it For you to earn this degree you will have to complete a MINIMUM of 99 credits. Following is the split of 99 credits required across core/elective courses & projects:

• If you wish to select more elective courses than required you are welcome to do so but will incur extra fees per additional credit
• You have a total of 5 years to complete the minimum credits required (99) to earn the degree.

Application based learning

Throughout the programme, you will have opportunities for real-life learning through projects, assignments, and capstone project including business simulation.

Business simulation in capstone

The best way to learn business is to run a business. The capstone business simulation project is designed to provide students with a hands-on learning experience in strategic management and business decision-making.

• Aims to simulate a real-world business environment, allowing students to apply the concepts and theories they have learned.
• It provides a risk-free environment where the students can operate and grow a large company in a dynamic and competitive market
• Skills takeaways: Strategic thinking, Decision-making, Cross-functional collaboration, Financial Management, Market Analysis (Understand changing dynamics of markets and develop competence in competitive analysis)

What the simulation entails:

• Multiple rounds of Intense, comprehensive, and team-based learning experience.
• Focus on strategy immersion- you have to out-think others in competing companies.
• Debriefings and reports are analyzed after each round to show cause and effect – winners and losers.
• Designed for differential learning to ensure each participant gets what they need the most, basis their current career needs.

Term wise courses listings with credits

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

*Refer to Table A and Table B for Elective titles

Term 5

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Term 6

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Term 7

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Term 8

Table A: Open Electives

Table B: Specialisation Electives

I. Marketing

II. Finance

III. Human Resource Management

IV. Operations

V. Information Technology