“We’re hoping that we will have the first batch inducted this year to start early next year. So, we are hoping that the classes will start in January. And for that, we have now come to identify a place where we can have classes here.”
— Prof. Dheeraj Sharma, Director, IIM Rohtak
One of India’s most prestigious business schools has chalked out plans to open a centre in Dubai to offer a postgraduate diploma for working executives in the GCC region.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak aims to offer a blended course in management from January 2024, Prof. Dheeraj Sharma, director, IIM Rohtak, said in an e interview with Gulf News.
Speaking on the sidelines of an international conference in Dubai co-hosted by the institute, he said: “We’re hoping that we will have the first batch inducted this year to start early next year. So, we are hoping that the classes will start in January. And for that, we have now come to identify a place where we can have classes here.”
He added: “When you have an executive programme for working professionals, I’m sure that there’ll be a small contribution to the growing economy of definitely the UAE, and particularly Dubai.” Prof Sharma said the blended mode will cater to the flexible schedules of the working professionals, with majority of the classes conducted online in the evenings and weekends.
“We also have a very large presence of faculty which comes from the Middle East. We get about 40 to 50 faculty members every year from this region to come and teach our students.”
— — Prof. Dheeraj Sharma
“We will have them come to our Rohtak campus three times a year, each term for a few days… maybe a total of 15 days and we will have a similar number [of classes] here [at the Dubai centre].” Prof Sharma said Dubai was chosen as the ideal location for its first overseas centre because the IIM Rohtak used to receive many candidates from the GCC region for similar short-term courses.
“We also have a very large presence of faculty which comes from the Middle East. We get about 40 to 50 faculty members every year from this region to come and teach our students,” he added.
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