Defence personnel can now get management degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology with the one in Kharagpur set to start 'tailor-made' courses for them.
"From the next academic year, we hope to start a two-year fully residential MBA programme for the defence personnel of all the three forces, while a post-graduate diploma in business administration course has been scheduled for Indian Air Force personnel," Kalyan Chakravarti, Dean of IIT's Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), told reporters in New delhi on Wednesday.
He said the defence forces had "in principle" accepted the proposal to start the sponsored courses and would select the students through a process in which IIT professors would also participate.
Chakravarthi said the IIT in West Bengal would also start another course which would enable a student to get a MBA degree along with BTech in five years, "thus saving one year."
"The selection for the course will be from JEE qualified students of IIT, Kharagpur who complete their first year with a minimum prescribed cumulative grade point average," he said.
The students would complete their first year MBA with the end of eighth semester of engineering and would be admitted directly to the second year of MBA, he said.
Chakravarthi said students would not have to pay for the first two semesters of the MBA programme as they would be paying fees for engineering.
He also said the IIT had submitted a proposal to the Government for the induction of foreign students from the SAARC and NRI students from the United States in the VGSOM.
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