Post-Graduation Diploma in Management (PGDM) is a Postgraduate Business Study Management course. This program is most popular amongst the young people because it provides them skills and frameworks that are essential for advancement of their career. By earning this PGDM an individual can broaden his educational horizons & prepare themselves for leadership positions in different job segments. PGDM at SMS Lucknow provides global exposure through foreign educational excursions. Multidimensional, multi-tasking quality of a PGDM is much in demand by the corporate world. It revolves around the principle that world-class business leaders are not mass-product; they are nurtured and developed with personalized care and attention, in small work groups and teams, and in a practical, application-oriented, user-friendly environment.

Some of the Specializations Offered
• Marketing Management
• Human Resource Management
• Financial Management

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) Course Suitability
• The programme is designed to develop conceptual knowledge and behavioral skills in students who continue to work in industry, government or other organizations.

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM): Career Prospects
After completion of PGDM course, one can find a number of employment opportunities in both the public and private sectors. Students can go into research and educational institutes and become professors and teachers for Management, Accounting Business and Soft skills wherein their duty will be to impart their knowledge and expertise to the younger students.
Students can opt to become Human Resource Development Managers where they will have to comply with the standards set by the firm or company they work under and manage the human resource. Human Resource is a key component of any firm and effective management and leading skills are required.

The Masters in Business Administration(MBA) two year full time programme aims to bring in an attitudinal change among the students, develop their leadership qualities and finally to mould them into competent Managers. The programme trains the students to handle resources effectively, take important decisions to achieve the organizational goals and equips them with modern management concepts and techniques.

Some of the Dual Specializations Offered
• Marketing Management
• Human Resource Management (HR)
• Financial Management
• International Business (IB)
• Information Systems (IT)

Master in Business Administration (MBA) Two Year Programme Course Suitability
• The Programme prepares the students to pursue more specialized and highly competitive management courses demanded by world class organizations. These management programmes offer the students right management skills to grow in their career by understanding the global economics of management. The specialization chosen in the core area makes an individual a Subject Matter Expert along with the basics of management well addressed. Our students have procured jobs with some of the leading firms in the Financial, Construction, Banking, FMCG, Health industry in India and many more across the globe.

Master of Business Administration (MBA): Career Prospects • Management professionals are hired by wide variety of industries, MNCs, offices and organizations. Both government and private job opportunities are available in front of them.
• Corporate houses, MNCs, NGOs, Educational Institutes, Healthcare setups, Government organizations, Industries, Finance institutes (banks, private enterprises etc) are known to recruit MBA graduates. Actually, the list of recruiters would go on and on, management professionals are needed by many firms!

Under the above mentioned work setups, MBA graduates may take up any of the following job posts –
• Associate
• Assistant Manager
• HR Manager
• Operations Manager
• Analyst
• Finance and Accounts Manager
• Banker
• Trader
• Sales and Marketing professional
• Auditing Assistant
• Executive (Sales, Marketing, Advertising etc.)
• Office Assistant/Executive
• Research Assistant

Other than office job, entrepreneurship is another opportunity available in front of MBA graduates. If you are an entrepreneur at heart, you may start your own venture or business. Other than that, working as an independent consultant is another excellent option!

Our memberships- with different Industry Associations

• CII - Confederation of Indian Industries
• PHDCCI - PHD Chamber of Commerce Industry
• NHRD -National Human Resource Development
• AIMA - All India Management Association
• IEI - Institution of Engineers (India)
• LMA -Lucknow Management Association

All India Council for Technical Education Under MHRD’s Pradhan Mantri kaushal Vikas Yojna (Govt. of India)

AICTE (Ministry of HRD) Govt. of India has approved SMS Lucknow for starting programmes under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (Govt. of India) having intake of 25 seats in the following 6 streams.
• Repair Welding
• Shuttering Carpenter
• Field Technician - Air Conditioning
• DTH Setup box Installation
• Plumber General
• Welding and Quality Technician

Our memberships- with different Industry Associations

SMS encourages industrial visits across the nation for students to gain practical experiences of real time industrial working environment. The institute has organized industrial visits from time to time for students of all courses throughout the year. In the last academic year (2017-18) students visited the following industries:

• Reliance Industries Limited, Barabanki
• Punjab National Bank, Gomti Nagar, Lko.
• Jaipur Rugs, Jaipur
• Clay Crafts, Jaipur
• Tata Consultancy Services, Lucknow
• Saraswati Global Ltd., Jaipur
• UP Dial 100, Lucknow
• Anchalik Vigyan Kendra, Lucknow

Foreign Tours for PGDM Students

International tours are undertaken to broaden the horizon of students and provide them an international perspective

Our memberships- with different Industry Associations

School of Management Sciences, Lucknow is privileged to be declared as a centre for NPTEL Local Chapter by IIT Madras. As a centre for NPTEL Local Chapter, SMS Lucknow helps students to obtain certicates from IITs for various courses. The college provides faculty mentor/facilitator to students who join the different courses. The institute helps students to enhance their employability skills. The faculty members also avail the NPTEL course certication for their academic advancement. MOOC’s education enhancement facility for faculty & students through Remote Centre of IIT Bombay & NPTEL Centre of IIT Madras.

Remote Centre of IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay declared School of Management Sciences, Technical Campus, and Lucknow as a 'Remote Centre' for empowerment of faculty, staff & students through training i..e. Remote Centre-1247.

IIT Bombay Resource Centre

• Spoken tutorial for effective learning
• Various software that provides training under Resource Centre:- Basic IT Skill package, Blender, C, C++, Firefox, GeoGebra, GIMP, Java, Netbeans, Latex, Linux etc.
• Various workshops have been conducted under this resource centre.