IBA's Flagship product has been its MBA program. It is one of the oldest in the country and well-recognized and accepted by the industry. Our MBAs are known to be high performers and high achievers - IBA alumni’s exceptional kudos is a testimony to this fact. Through its MBA program IBA strives to nurture and polish the leadership potential of its students, inculcate ethical values, and develop positive and progressive attitudes besides equipping them with a sound academic foundation for designing and managing in contemporary business environments.

The IBA MBA offers a thorough exposure to current business theories as well as practical organizational knowledge to its students in order to develop functional expertise in them. It provides them an opportunity to build incisive analytical skills, a global outlook and get first-hand experience of using state-of-the-art management tools and techniques. The MBA program is designed to encourage entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and social responsibility through a host of modern pedagogical methodologies. It instills values of discipline, honesty, integrity, industriousness and punctuality in the students, and engages them in collaborative exercises where they hone their coordination, communication, group- work and conflict management abilities.

MBA students at IBA enjoy flexibility and resources to design their own study programs or to select pre-designed programs. IBA’s dynamic learning environment is competitive, collaborative and conducive to agile learning aimed at developing high class business professionals, entrepreneurs and managers.

The program provides a rigorous training in fundamental skills as a foundation to help students develop meaningful aspirations. Change is the one thing one can expect with certainty. That's why IBA has carefully crafted the MBA curriculum to help the students to develop a capacity for analysis, assessment, judgment, and action that one can exercise throughout the course of any career.

It is one thing to learn a theory from lectures and textbooks; it is something else entirely to learn how to make decisions in the face of conflicting data, complex politics, and intense time and fiscal pressures, and then defend choices among peers who are as motivated and intelligent. That is exactly what the MBA students will do throughout their stay and case-method learning puts them in the role of the decision maker. Field studies, career treks, and in-depth immersions under faculty guidance take students to the frontiers of new markets, practices, and technologies across the globe.

The course initially focuses upon building a broad foundation of theoretical knowledge about business through core courses in subjects ranging from accountancy to strategy, and from managerial economics to organizational analysis.

Once these core building blocks are in place, students can take advantage of the flexible course structure by tailoring elective choices to suit target career paths, and choosing whether to spend the summer working upon a strategic consulting project, completing an internship, undertaking an individual academic thesis or auditing additional elective courses. These are often taught by visiting experts or by faculty in association with practitioners, bringing together academic rigour and hands-on expertise. The wide variety of courses offered gives students the chance to develop themselves in preparation for a post-MBA career.

The new MBA Program starts with superior students and instills the necessary learning to succeed in the rapidly changing, competitive world of business. The requirement of 2 years of work experience for new entrants will bring matured students in the class who will possess sufficient knowledge about practical market conditions. In this way, this new entrant requirement will bring a wealth of real world experiences into the curriculum.

• The curriculum is designed to ensure that students demonstrate the strength in leadership and decision making required in a fast paced business environment. The object is to prepare them to face a challenging corporate environment through discussions, involvement and pedagogy.



• A one year corporate project is the capstone industrial exposure of this program. A strategy has been developed with a goal of being ranked among the top 100 Global Business Schools, and top ten Business Schools in the Middle East and South Asia region within the next five years, a comprehensive process was initiated towards achieving this goal. It was also decided that IBA will benchmark itself against chosen institutions of India, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. Based on this, an External Review Panel was formulated and an academic audit was undertaken. The recommendations of the above process were then reviewed by the Academic Committee and subsequently incorporated into formulating a new MBA program that had the following differentiated dimensions:



• Participants’ maturity, qualifications and experience - Curricula



• Pedagogy and learning environment (including provision of world-class facilities and infrastructure)