Programme details
Programme brochure
Management education is deep rooted in India with a large number of universities offering MBA degrees. The MBA (Infrastructure) programme at TERI University brings together this knowledge capital in a set of courses that cover all traditional business administration disciplines such as marketing, finance, and strategy. In addition, this programme caters to the need for a cadre of professionals with training for operation, management, and financing of infrastructure services. The aim is to achieve a critical mass of expertise and academic excellence for effective management of, and for influencing public policy and regulatory practice in infrastructure industries.
The MBA (Infrastructure) programme encompasses a comprehensive and well-structured two-year curriculum designed specifically to provide specialized training in the concepts and skills involved in the infrastructure service delivery, regulatory process, and competition policy, as well as helping the managers understand regulation from technical, economic, social, legal and political perspectives. The programme is open to both mid career professionals and fresh graduates. For mid-career professionals from regulated utilities, regulatory bodies, and consultancies, the course allows them the flexibility to take up a researchthesis- based curriculum. It is mandatory for such students to undertake course work in the first year. In the second year, students will have to write a thesis and defend it at the end of the year. For graduates without work experience, course work will extend to 1½ years (3 semesters) followed by one semester of project work.
Pedagogical tools
The choice of pedagogical tools will be based on the principle of ‘active learning based on strong conceptual understanding’. These would comprise classroom lectures, case studies, field visits, term papers, assignments and tutorials, a large number of guest lectures by practitioners and experts, seminars and discussion forums, and role play. In particular, case studies, drawing from real-world management challenges, will be designed and integrated into the curriculum. The faculty, along with professionals and development organizations will be encouraged to collaborate in the preparation of case studies. These case studies, along with the field exposure planned during the Summer Internship and the Major Research Project, would provide relevant context to the curriculum in this progamme.
Graduation requirements
As the MBA (Infrastructure) progamme has a large component of research, each student will have to earn a minimum of 100 credits over the two-year period with a minimum CGPA (cumulative grade point average) of 6.
MBA at TERI University
This MBA prorgamme will provide its students with the best management education in India, differentiating itself through the creation and sustenance of distinctive competence in infrastructure management. For this, the prorgamme turns its focus on infrastructure challenges facing developing country societies in the third and fourth semester, which courses on global, national, and local issues in the realm of economics, society, institutions, and the infrastructure. Consequently, the graduates will be competitive with the best, with leadership skills to direct cross-functional and interdisciplinary teams. They would have instilled in them a core value system and an understanding of larger social and environmental responsibilities that would make them stand out as business leaders. Our students would also have enough exposure to global issues to enable them to participate knowledgeably and appropriately in a trans-national context.
