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.