Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Post Graduate programme in Public Policy and Management
Full Time CourseThe Post Graduate programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM) aims at strengthening the public policy and managerial skills of future leaders and senior managers from the civil services; and professionals from social, infrastructure and private sectors. This two year programme helps professionals engaged in public policy and management to tackle new challenges in the context of liberalization, globalization and rapid technology change; and continuing burden of poverty, social exclusion and crisis.
Course Information
Eligibility
- Open candidates from sectors other than the government sector should ideally be graduates with 5 to 7 years of professional experience and aged not over 40 years as on June 1, 2012. Open candidates with either GMAT/GRE scores between April 1, 2010 and January 1, 2012 or CAT 2011 scores are eligible to apply.
The basic eligibility criterion for an overseas candidate is that he/she should have professional experience of 5 to 7 years. He/she should be minimum a Graduate, holding a Bachelor's Degree.
Group A Officers of All India Services and Central Services can apply for the PGPPM at IIMB, subject to the following eligibility conditions: • Length of Service: The officer should have put in at least 7 years of Group 'A' service. • Age: The officer should not be more than 50 years on the date of commencement of the programme i.e.1-6-2012 (53 years in case of officers belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and OB Community). • Earlier Training: The officer should not have under gone training programme of a duration of 12-weeks or more in India or a duration of 2-weeks or more abroad, in the preceding five years.
Admission Process
- Open and Overseas Candidates
Candidates from other than government sectors should be graduates and ideal profile would be 5 to 7 years of work experience. He/ she should not be aged over 40 years as on June 01.
Open and Overseas candidates need to take CAT exam or should have secured
GMAT/GRE scores between April 1 and January 1.
Selection of open and overseas candidate is based on two stage processes. At the first stage
candidates will be called for interviews based on the following criteria:
Academic Background
CAT / GMAT /GRE Scores
Work Experience
Achievements (Academic and career related)
The open and overseas candidates must mandatorily choose any one of the following tests for admission to PGPPM
- The Applicant may take the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted jointly by the IIMs and indicate that they want to apply for the PGPPM in the CAT Application Form. Please see the CAT website at www.catiim.in for more details on CAT. A separate application has to be submitted for PGPPM after the CAT scores are announced. The last date for applying with the CAT score is January 31
(Details are provided in the section "How to Apply").
- Alternatively, the applicant may take the GMAT/GRE . Applicants who have already taken the test may attach a copy of their scores along with the application. Scores of GMAT/GRE taken between April 01 and January 01 only are valid.
Applicants who are going to take the test may have the score sent directly to the PGPPM Office. The GMAT Code for IIMB PGPPM is Q9H-KK-94. A separate application has to be submitted for PGPPM on or before February 13 with the
GMAT score (Details are provided in the section "How to Apply"). No other test will be considered in lieu of the above options.
- DoPT Sponsored Government Candidates
Group A Officers of All India Services and Central Services are eligible for the IIMB PGPPM subject to the following eligibility conditions.
Length of Service: The officer should have put in at least 7 years of Group 'A' service.
Age: The officer should not be more than 50 years on the date of commencement of the programme i.e. June 01 (53 years in case of officers belonging to Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe and OB Community).
Earlier Training: The officer should not have under gone training programme of a duration of 12-weeks or more in India or a duration of 2-weeks or more abroad, in the preceding five years.
Government candidates have to apply through DoPT. They should send an advance copy of their application to the IIMB Admissions Office. They are also expected to write an essay on a public policy issue which they think is important and should submit the same with the application form.
The shortlisted candidates will be called for interview at Delhi or Bangalore. They will be expected to write a case analysis or a short paper at the time of interview.
