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Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Online)

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Online)

Earn an Online PGDM from one of India’s top B-schools

Application closes 3rd Jul 2024

  • Program Overview
  • Curriculum
  • Certificate
  • Success Stories
  • Faculty
  • Campus Immersion
  • Career Support
  • Fee & Eligibility

Why Choose this Online MBA Equivalent?

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    Industry-Focused Curriculum

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    Industry Relevant Skills

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    Flexible Learning Format

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    Highly Affordable MBA Course

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    Career Support Services

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    Campus Immersion Option Available

  • AACSB International Accredited

    AACSB International Accredited

  • Association of MBAs Accreditation

    Association of MBAs Accreditation

  • Ranked 5th by Analytics B-School

    Ranked 5th by Analytics B-School

  • Association of Indian Universities Accredited

    Association of Indian Universities Accredited

  • Among Top Emerging B-Schools In India - NHRDN-2019

    Among Top Emerging B-Schools In India - NHRDN-2019

  • NBA and SAQS Accredited

    NBA and SAQS Accredited

Skills you will learn

  • Marketing Management
  • Financial Accounting and Decision Making
  • Economics
  • Cost and Management Accounting
  • HR Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
  • Data Science and Analytics
  • Supply Chain and Logistics Management

The Great Lakes Online PGDM Advantage

Great Lakes' 2-year AICTE-approved Online PGDM, designed for working professionals, equips you with the latest knowledge and competencies. Its flexible online format, featuring an industry-relevant curriculum by renowned faculty from a leading b-school, allows seamless integration with your career. It offers a blend of live virtual classes, recorded lectures, and expert guidance. Gain the skills to make impactful decisions, access career support, and become the in-demand management professional organizations seek.

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What is this online PGDM?

This online MBA equivalent program offers a blended curriculum to teach future-ready concepts in Marketing Management, Financial Accounting, Economics, HR Management, Business Analytics, and Strategic Management. The course also offers specializations in Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Data Science and analytics. It is designed for professionals aspiring to become managers and, eventually, business leaders.

How is learning structured in this program?

The 2-year AICTE-approved Great Lakes Online PGDM offers a comprehensive learning pedagogy.
  • Curriculum:
  • Core Business Foundation: Master the fundamentals through 19 core courses.
  • Specialization: Choose your path with a focused sequence of 5 specialization courses.
  • Integrative Capstone Projects: Apply your knowledge through two practical capstone projects.
  • Interactive Learning:
  • Engaging Lectures: Learn at your pace with online video lectures and downloadable materials.
  • Live Sessions: Deepen understanding with weekly live virtual classes.
  • Collaborative Learning: Participate in curated discussions and initiate peer-to-peer learning.
  • Real-World Application: Hone your critical thinking with Harvard Business School case studies and simulations.
  • Continuous Assessment:
  • Regular assessments throughout the program provide valuable feedback for continuous improvement.

What is unique about this online program?

This online PGDM is equivalent to one of the best online MBA courses in India. Program highlights include,
  • Balance & Flexibility: This two-year program offers an online MBA for working professionals. It seamlessly integrates your studies with your current commitments, giving you the flexibility to succeed without pausing your career.
  • Industry-Ready Skills: Developed by industry experts, the curriculum provides an in-depth understanding of real-world business challenges, equipping you with the skills needed in the management competitive landscape.
  • Highly Affordable MBA: Offers unparalleled value compared to traditional/online MBA programs in India, allowing you to invest in your future efficiently.
  • Global Network & Collaboration: Interact with a vibrant cohort from various industries, fostering valuable peer-to-peer learning and building a network of future leaders.
  • Career Advancement Support: Benefit from dedicated career support services that guide you through resume building, interview preparation, and job placement assistance, maximizing your chances of landing your dream role.

Who is this program for?

Designed by one of the best B-Schools in India, this online MBA program equivalent caters to,
  • Aspiring Managers: Launch your leadership journey with a solid business foundation.
  • Early-Career Professionals (0-3 yrs): Gain a competitive edge with a top-tier PGDM.
  • Mid to Senior Professionals (4+ yrs): Transition to leadership and shape business strategy.
  • Upskilling Professionals: Continue your education without career disruption.

Program Curriculum

    The cutting-edge curriculum of the Online Post Graduate Diploma in Management is a blended combination of live virtual classes, recorded lectures, and hands-on experience with guidance from industry experts. This 2-year online program has an industry focussed curriculum taught in a flexible format.
  • 1. Curriculum and course structure are indicative. They are reviewed periodically by the academic committee in conjunction with advisory panels from industry and academia.
  • 2. Some specialisations may be offered in selected terms only, and can be confirmed during admission.
  • 3. Campus immersion is applicable only to the learners who opt for it.

Unit 1

Year 1

Gain a deep understanding of core marketing concepts from customer needs to campaign execution and performance measurement. Strengthen your ability to make informed decisions through financial accounting and data analysis. Hone communication skills to deliver impactful presentations and persuasively advocate for your marketing ideas.  This comprehensive foundation, coupled with insights into human behavior, organizational dynamics, and production processes, prepares you to navigate the complexities of marketing.

Marketing Management I

Learn core marketing concepts, including market research, marketing strategy, and the marketing mix. Identify customer needs, develop marketing campaigns, and measure marketing effectiveness.

Financial Accounting & Decision Making

Gain a solid foundation in financial accounting principles. Read and interpret financial statements essential for the financial health of a company and make sound marketing decisions.

Oral Communication

Develop your skills in public speaking, presentation delivery, and persuasive communication

Statistical Methods in Decision Making

Gain statistical skills to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Apply essential for making informed marketing decisions tools to use data effectively.

Microeconomics

Understand the fundamental principles of microeconomics, including supply and demand, market structures, and pricing theory. Develop effective marketing strategies.

Organizational Behaviour I

Gain insights into human behavior in organizations, understand group dynamics, and learn to motivate and lead teams. Gain essential skills to work effectively with colleagues and clients in the marketing field.

Cost & Management Accounting

Learn how to cost products and services and use cost data to make informed marketing decisions.

Human Resource Management

Learn about recruitment, selection, training, and development, as well as employee relations and compensation.

Production & Operations Management

Learn how products and services are produced, how supply chains are managed, and how to ensure quality and efficiency. The production process can also impact marketing strategies.

Financial Management

Gain insights into financial planning and capital budgeting. Gain financial management essentials to justify marketing expenditures and demonstrate the ROI of marketing campaigns.

Strategic Management

Develop a strategic plan for a company and how to implement that plan. Understand strategic management to align marketing activities with the overall business strategy

Business Analytics

Learn about data collection, analysis, and visualization. Track the performance of marketing campaigns and identify areas for improvement

Unit 2

Year 2 Core Courses

Hone written communication for impactful marketing materials and proposals. Explore macroeconomics to understand the bigger business picture. Sharpen leadership and team dynamics through advanced organizational behavior studies. Master ethical practices and research methods to build trust and inform marketing decisions. Top it off with industry-specific electives to further specialize your marketing expertise.

Written Analysis & Communication

Develop skills in writing business reports, proposals, and other marketing materials for marketing success.

Macroeconomics

Understand the principles of macroeconomics. Learn about economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and fiscal and monetary policy. Understand the broader economic context to operate businesses.

Organizational Behaviour II

Strategically explore leadership, motivation, and organizational culture. Cultivate skills to work effectively with internal and external teams and build strong relationships

Business Ethics & Corporate Governance

Understand ethical issues in business and corporate governance principles. Develop skills to build trust with customers and stakeholders.

Optimization Techniques for Decision Making

Learn business optimization techniques to allocate resources efficiently and maximize the return on investment of marketing campaigns.

Business Research Methods

Design, conduct research studies, and analyze and interpret research data. Communicate findings through visually appealing presentations

Unit 3

Year 2 Elective Courses

Choose any 1 from 5 industry-focused electives that suit your needs and enhance your current job profile

Analytics

Machine Learning for Business Applications
Ace the increasingly popular and growing technology, Machine Learning, in different business applications. This course will shed light on how Machine Learning is helping businesses automate their operations in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. Learn Linear and Logistic regression, Decision Tree models, Clustering, and other concepts that help you make smarter decisions in your everyday business.

Data Visualization
This course is an excellent source for learning about data visualization and various aspects of data. Data visualization is a way of presenting data in a graphical or pictorial format. It can be used to present data in a more easily understood format. You can use it to show trends, patterns, and relationships in data. They can be used to make comparisons or show changes over time. The course includes an introduction to Tableau, Storyboards, and special charts and parameters in Tableau.

Marketing Analytics
Build your knowledge around Marketing and Retail Analytics, a practice of measuring, managing, and analyzing marketing performance to optimize marketing campaigns and improve ROI. Once you master marketing analytics, you can use it to track and analyze various marketing metrics, such as traffic, conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, and more, that can help you frame your marketing strategies.

Web & Social Media Analytics
Get a broad view of Web and Social Media Analytics with this course. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data for the purpose of understanding and optimizing web usage. In contrast, Social media analytics is the process of gathering, measuring, and analyzing data from social media platforms and sites. Web and Social media analytics can be used as a tool for business and market research and to assess and improve the effectiveness of a website.

AI for Business
In this course, you will master one of the world’s most in-demand skills, Artificial Intelligence. The course will take you through the technology used to develop products, create marketing strategies, and improve customer service. Learn about different applications of AI in business, the basics of Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and other concepts to implement them in real life.

Marketing

Product & Brand Management
The course is about Product and brand management, which is the process of developing and managing products and brands within a company. It includes all aspects of a product's life cycle and product portfolio. The learners will acquire knowledge of Brand Management fundamentals that ensure the products are well-positioned in the marketplace. The course will also focus on the significance of Branding and the Strategic Brand Management Process.
 

Digital Marketing
This course will equip students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to work in the digital marketing industry. You will learn about the various aspects of digital marketing, such as SEO, Google Ads, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, and Affiliate Marketing. The course will teach you how to confidently drive business growth by launching impactful multi-channel campaigns.
 

Marketing Analytics
Build your knowledge around Marketing and Retail Analytics, a practice of measuring, managing, and analyzing marketing performance to optimize marketing campaigns and improve ROI. Once you master marketing analytics, you can use it to track and analyze various marketing metrics, such as traffic, conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, and more, that can help you frame your marketing strategies.
 

Web & Social Media Analytics
Get a broad view of Web and Social Media Analytics with this course. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of web data for understanding and optimizing web usage. In contrast, Social media analytics is the process of gathering, measuring, and analyzing data from social media platforms and sites. Web and Social media analytics can be used as a tool for business and market research and to assess and improve the effectiveness of a website.
 

Integrated Marketing Communications
Learn to use Integrated marketing communications (IMC), an approach to marketing communications planning that helps you choose the best marketing tools to achieve your objectives. After learning how to use the IMC approach, you can integrate all the elements of the marketing mix- advertising, public relations, promotions, and direct marketing, to maximize the impact on consumers and other end users at a minimal cost.

Operations

Business Excellence for Competitive Advantage
Get familiar with Business Excellence which means continuous improvement of all aspects of an organization to achieve superior performance. This can include improving customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency and productivity, and reducing costs. Learn about various quality management tools and techniques that help businesses achieve business excellence.
 

Supply Chain and Logistics Management
Elevate your supply chain management skills with this course. This helps managers to monitor, control and optimize their supply chain and logistics processes. After completing this course, you will understand all about Inventory Management, Total Quality Management, and performance analytics. The goal of supply chain and logistics management is to ensure that the right resources are in the right place at the right time to meet the customer’s needs.
 

Service Operations Management
Unwind yourself with Service Operations Management, planning, organizing, and controlling the resources and processes of a company’s services business in this course. It includes developing and managing service products, designing and managing service processes, and managing service quality, which will help your business in the long run.
 

Project Management
In this course, you will learn about project management and how to create and manage your projects. This course is designed to provide you with a strong foundation in project management. You will learn about Risk Planning, Resource Planning, Budgeting, project Monitoring, and Control. All these concepts will be helpful for you to manage projects well for the business.
 

Strategic Sourcing Management
Strategic Sourcing is an important approach to Supply Chain Management that aims to achieve the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) along with minimal supply chain risk. In this course, you will learn how Strategic sourcing is done and how it better aligns the sourcing and business objectives. The course will include topics like Auction, E procurement, Negotiation, and Contracting.

Finance

Financial Statement Analysis
Built on foundational courses like FADM and Managerial Accounting, students in this course learn to analyse financial statements for supporting and validating business decisions. They demonstrate how detailed analysis of financial numbers inform upon the financing and investing activities, matched with the firm’s financial position and performance. The course also helps in understanding the nuances of Deferred Tax Assets and Liability; the Impact of Foreign Exchange Rate; changes in the accounting policy on the financial analysis of a company, including credit analysis and equity analysis. Valuation, a crucial skill for finance professionals is also covered.
 

Financial Modeling
Conceptualising and creating models helps managers and stakeholders deal with complicated data and arrive at solutions quickly and efficiently. In this course students learn modelling techniques for forecasting financial statements and for financial decision making for investments. Students also learn to conceptualise, design and create financial models based on objectives.
 

Financial Management for Designing Marketing Strategy
The course revisits the nuances of finance to provide an appreciation and understanding of some of the critical confluence areas of finance and marketing. Students learn to demonstrate analytic and decision-making skills in the realm of marketing using financial knowledge, and develop the ability to anticipate, strategize, and plan marketing to achieve glocal organizational goals.
 

Financial Analytics
As an institute championing the analytics cause in management education, this course helps develop an appreciation for various machine learning tools applied to finance. Students learn to select, implement, and evaluate models for the appropriate finance scenarios, and to understand the implications of modelling risk based on assumptions that might change.
 

Wealth Management
Saving and investment are two different things. The former focuses on finding venues to park funds, whereas the latter focuses on how to make it grow. Majority of working professionals need to learn how to manage their wealth by identifying their financial goals and working towards achieving them in a prearranged manner. This course will help professionals understand the concept of wealth management and financial life cycle. It will help them design their personal financial plans and evaluate different investment channels for wealth creation. The course will also teach basics of direct taxes, which are relevant for wealth management like computing taxable income, designing a salary structure and computation of capital gains.

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Faculty

Our faculty is comparable to the best in the world, equipped with degrees from leading American (e.g. Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland, Temple University, University of Tennessee) or Indian B-schools (e.g. IIM, Calcutta).

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    Dr. Suresh Ramanathan

    Dean and Principal, Distinguished Professor - Marketing and Strategy

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    Dr. Suresh Srinivasan

    Distinguished Professor - Strategy and Accounting

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    Dr. Vidya Mahambare

    Chair Professor of Economics and Director, Research

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    Dr. Sanjoy Sircar

    Professor and Program Director, Finance

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    Dr. D Sriram

    Professor and Program Director, Sales and Marketing

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    Dr. Vishwanathan Iyer

    Senior Associate Professor and Director of Accreditation, Finance & Accounting

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    Dr. Raj Krishnan Shankar

    Associate Professor and Program Director, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

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    Dr. Debashis Sanyal

    Director,Financial Accounting and Strategic Cost Management (SCM)

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    Dr. Umashankar Venkatesh

    Director - Center for Online Learning

    With over 26 years of rich experience, Prof. Umashankar Venkatesh is an educational entrepreneur, who has helped launch many institutions of higher learning in his career. He has helped set-up five institutions of higher learning in India, both public and private, enacting key leadership roles in conceptualizing, designing, implementing and managing, innovative study programs - with many international partners viz. Lancaster Univ. UK; Oxford Brookes Univ. UK; Bradford Univ. UK; Greenwich Univ. UK etc. He was also offered Adjunct Professorship at the CUNY, USA in 2004.

    With a PHD in Management (Consumer Behavior), he holds Postgraduate qualifications in Management as well as Agricultural Economics. His areas of interest include – (International) Consumer Behavior, Marketing of Services, Rural Marketing, Strategic Marketing etc.

    He is on the Editorial Board of various research journals. He has authored a book on Services Management; has many research publications to his credit. Has designed & conducted training programs for – business managers, academicians, civil servants and NGO functionaries in the areas of customer centricity, service orientation, organizational design, ethics, institution building etc. He promotes research by being a PHD supervisor and examiner for many universities along with reviewer of reputed journals viz. Vikalpa (IIM-A); Global Business Review (Sage); Emerald Group Publishing, Journal of Services Research etc.

    He has also incubated on, a personal basis, numerous small and medium sized enterprises along with his students, and is currently still attached to some of them in an advisory capacity. Prior joining Great Lakes, he was with IMI (International Management Institute), Delhi as Professor and Area Chair of Marketing.

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    Dr. Poornima Gupta

    Associate Professor

    Dr. Poornima Gupta is an Associate Professor in the field of Organizational Behaviour and HRM. She has more than sixteen years of experience in industry and academia. She has worked as faculty at National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Lucknow and organizations like Himalaya Exports Delhi, Permo Marketers, Lucknow and Ask Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara. She holds a PhD in Management and is Post Graduate in Management and BSc in Statistics from Lucknow University.

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    Dr. Jones Mathew

    Former VP Sales & Marketing

    Dr. Mathew is a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), MBA – Marketing from BIT-Mesra, Ranchi, BA Economics from Lucknow University and brings with him 18 years of industry experience followed by 7 years of B-School academic experience.

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    Dr. Ravindra Ojha

    Professor, Operations

Note: The above faculty list is indicative

Elevate your Learning Experience with Campus Immersion Option

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    ON CAMPUS IMMERSION

    3 Campus Immersion sessions for a total of 12-days, with interactions with Great Lakes faculty, hands-on learning, and networking with peers and industry experts.

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    SPECIAL COURSES

    Learn the latest and unique business skills with specialized courses like 'Negotiation and Bargaining', that are best learnt with deep peer interaction and role plays.

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    HANDS-ON LEARNING

    Enhance your abilities in problem solving, teamwork, communication, and leadership, by running a virtual business in an interactive and real life environment with business simulations.

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    NETWORKING

    Build meaningful and life-long relationships with your peers, faculty and industry experts. Experience a unique networking landscape with the CXO Speaker Series and engage in insightful round-table discussions and dining with industry experts and peers.

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    CAREER LAB

    Unlock your full potential with Career Lab sessions designed for reflection, future planning, and personalized discussions with seasoned career coaches.

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    ON CAMPUS GRADUATION CEREMONY

    Come together on campus to celebrate achievements. Strengthen bonds and forge deeper connections with peers.

Career Support

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    E-Portfolio

    An e-portfolio is a snapshot of all the projects done and skills acquired during the program that is shareable across social media channels. This will help you showcase your expertise to potential recruiters.

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    Exclusive Job Boards

    The program provides candidates access to a Job Board with job opportunities shared by 3300+ organisations.

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    Resume building and Interview preparation

    Build your resume to highlight your skills and your previous professional experience. Also, learn how to crack interviews with interview preparation sessions.

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    Career Guidance

    Get access to career mentoring from industry experts who’ve transitioned to roles in the industry. Benefit from their guidance on how to build a rewarding career.

The career support services provided as part of this program are offered by Great Learning.

Program Fee

First American

Pay in Installments

Low Cost EMI at USD 212/month

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Payment Partners

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*Subject to partner approval based on regions & eligibility. dLocal for Brazil, Colombia & Mexico learners. Other partners for U.S. learners only.

Application process

Go through our admissions process. The number of seats are limited. Apply early to secure your seats.

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    1. Application Form

    Register by filling up the online application form > and provide some basic details.

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    2. Screening

    Go through a screening call with the Admissions Director’s office.

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    3. Join the Program

    If selected, you will receive a letter for the upcoming cohort. Secure your seat by paying the admission fee.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks (45% for SC/ST/OBC candidates) from a recognized university or institution.

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