A new campus has been finalized on the IT Corridor in Chennai. The School is coming up in "Alpha City", a 600,000 sq.ft. complex with 3 blocks - Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. The School will initially occupy the 6 floor in the Beta block. The campus is 18 kms from Madhya Kailash intersection near Adyar on the Old Mahabalipuram Road (aka Rajiv Gandhi Salai or IT Corridor); this is a 6 lane divided toll road. The campus has Polaris as its immediate neighbor on the South, Cognizant across the road to the East, HCL a block away to the North. The Siruseri IT Park with 2000 acres full of large IT companies such as TCS, Cognizant, Hexaware is only 2 kms to the South.
Here is the link to the google maps showing the location of the school:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101628031879235589365.00046d60a640784f57734&ll=12.8433,80.225467&spn=0.00262,0.003439&t=h&z=18
The interior work in the building is underway and we hope to occupy the new campus on Sept 15, 2009. The first batch of students will start their classes on Sept 28th in this new campus. Photographs will be available on our website soon.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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respected sir,
ReplyDeleteits great to hear this news...but as always the Buck in Indian MBA colleges finishes and stops at placement statistics , you are trying to implant something missing in between this system -Knowledge. All the best.
But I also belong to the same class and would like to know how are you planning on placement front from 2011. Since 10 lkhs is a very gud amount for a middle class student.to make it more in the jargon of USA , how will you rate your college on ROI (Return on Investment).
thanks.
Dear Kishlaya:
ReplyDeleteThanks for your very thoughtful comment.
You are right when you say that the placement plays a big role in everyone's mind; but that is what is also plaguing the business schools. Business Schools are NOT employment exchanges. But we have a responsibility to the Industry since we teach an applied science called Management. As I see it, our role is educate the student and prepare him for a career, for life; not just a current job. Our job is help you discover yourselves while you are with us for those 2 years.
Our program cost about Rs.10 lakhs; your investment is more than this 10 lakhs. It should also include your living costs and the opportunity costs for those 2 years when you are not earning but sitting in the classroom. So, we think that your investment in yourself is about Rs.18 lakhs at a minimum depending on your current background. Assuming a three year period for recovering this investment, ideally you should plan to get a job that pays you about Rs. 12 lakhs per year when you graduate from our School.
Given the kind of professors involved in the school, the collaboration with Georgia State University and the involvement of several CXOs from the industry, we hope to be able to attract good students who after graduation should be able to attract good companies to our campus who will employ our students in roles that will pay that kind of salary.
In another two years, the economy should also be on an upswing that may make the job market better for students.
Dean