Students of this B School, Monday to Friday, work in a corporate and they are on the rolls of a company in a full time job earning a regular salary. Saturdays and Sundays, they come back to the campus to study management subjects as per the university’s curriculum. Students go through two days of classroom study reinforced by five days of industry exposure. At the end of two years the student has a full time UGC recognized MBA degree, a permanent job with a decent salary and two years of valuable work experience.  The student is looked at by the corporates as someone who is industry - ready and not just a classroom - MBA.

Management education in recent times has lost its glamour because most management institutes teach management like any other regular subject.  Rote - mechanical and repetitive learning, experts say, is not very useful because there is a lot of difference between learning management in the classroom and learning management at the workplace.

The main drawback classroom - MBAs face is lack of industry exposure, resulting in corporates having to spend a lot of time, effort and money training and preparing them. Employers the world over prefer candidates who are industry ready, who can take up challenges and perform from day one.

The students of GEMS B SCHOOL are mandatorily expected to work and study and earn and learn. The moment a student joins this college, he/she is assessed, trained and employed. They call it the Picked, Polished and Placed model. GEMS B School takes the responsibility of placing the student.

This bold new experiment in management education by GEMS B School has earned it laurels resulting in academic tie ups with leading Indian and International Universities, SAP Labs, The Institute of Cost Accountants of India etc. and placement tie ups with companies like ABB, ACCENTURE, DELL, IBM, HP, CONVERGYS, Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan, L&T, NORTHERN TRUST, E&Y, INFOSYS, WIPRO etc.

GEMS B School is a bit choosy in admitting students into this course. Students aspiring to join this course are required to clear an entrance test the link to which is www.gemsadmissiontest.com. Students have to score 60 marks in 60 minutes which is a bit of a challenge.

GEMS B School does not practice just innovation in learning methodology; one can see innovation also in the courses it offers. Courses like MBA with SAP, MBA with CMA, MBA in Health Care Management and Hospital Administration, MBA in Educational leadership and management, MBA in Event management, MBA in retail management etc.

Faculty members who teach in this college are also unique because none of them are with less than 20 years of work experience; industry experience is a pre - requisite to teach in this institution.

A brief interaction with students of GEMS B School revealed that they are good in business analysis, problem solving, decision making, negotiating and conflict management. They said they were able to acquire these vital business skills thanks to their industry exposure and intensive classroom training.

While there is no doubt that the placements success of this institution is because of its unique learning model, one has to acknowledge the fact that part of the credit for the success of this institution should go to its dynamic placement team which consists of experienced HR professionals, all from the industry, with a minimum of 10 years of Industry experience.

Even their campus is unique because it is located in the Bangalore Palace in the heart of Bangalore city, in a picturesque environment, in heritage buildings, surrounded by thousands of trees with an enviable ambience which no other institution in the country can dream of. 

The admission process in this institute is also different yet professional. Once the student clears the admission test, he/she is put through a psychometric analysis which reveals the student’s career preference. Following this the student goes through an intense round of counseling by career experts who guide the student in choosing his/her area of specialization. Based on the specialization chosen by the student he/she is placed.

Those students whose communication skills and confidence levels are a bit low are put through a crash course  in communication skills, aptitude test skills, interview handling skills, group discussion skills and other corporate skills  so that the students can successfully clear interviews. While most students are able to clear the job interviews in the first attempt itself, the few who are unable to do so are further trained and provided with repeated interview opportunities till they succeed. It is absolutely mandatory for a student studying in GEMS B School to work and study.

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