Mumbai campus for Italian b-school

One of Italy’s top institutes, Università Bocconi, through SDA Bocconi School of Management, is setting up a campus in Mumbai. The MISB Bocconi or the Mumbai International School of Business Bocconi will offer postgraduate programmes in business for Indian students and managers. SDA Bocconi has been ranked as among the top 10 European business schools according to the Financial Times rankings.

“MISB Bocconi opens to our university a new path for our internationalisation strategy which has led us today to have over 200 partner schools in all five continents and to offer our students 16 double degree programmes, of which one with the Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad,” explains Guido Tabellini, rector of Università Bocconi.

“It is, in fact, the first initiative in which, together with entrepreneurial partners, we give birth to a postgraduate education programme aimed exclusively at Indian students and managers and not Italians. We have chosen India,” says Tabellini, “ to set up this new project because of both the strong request for managerial education which characterises the Indian market and the deep-rooted experience which Bocconi has in this country beginning back in 2000, when we signed our first agreement with a partner university.”

The first programme offered by MISB Bocconi will be the Post Graduate Programme in Business, which will start in July 2012, a high-level international programme in management and centered on the realities of the Indian market and business world. Lessons will be held by a mix of Indian, international and Bocconi faculty. The programme will be a combination of theory and real practice in close contact with the business world and will be articulated in 2 modules of 11 months each. 

The first module will cover disciplines such as marketing, economics, corporate strategy and finance, concluding with a summer project that foresees an internship, an entrepreneurial project or a research project. The second module will also include the option of a campus abroad in a Bocconi partner school or an exchange semester at Bocconi’s campus in Milan and a group consultancy project in close collaboration with a company.

Università Bocconi will guarantee the quality of the courses in accordance with international academic standards and also draw upon its network of collaborations with Indian corporate partners with which it already works to offer internships and work experience for its students.

The school is also looking at launching executive education programmes for Indian and multinational companies, operating on the Indian market, in fields such as finance, entrepreneurship and family business, and fashion/design management, drawing upon the experience of SDA Bocconi.