PGPM Syllabus, Subjects, Course Curriculum, Entrance Exam Syllabus, Study Books 2023

PGPM, or Post Graduate Program in Management, is a management course particularly aimed for working professionals who want to boost their career with this high level master degree qualification.

Particularly provided by IIMs, these days it is also offered by many private colleges such as MDI Gurgaon, XLRI Jamshedpur, Great Lakes Chennai, etc.

The course curriculum is based on blended learning and gives equal weightage to projects, industry internships and live projects, apart from classroom learning and presentations.

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PGPM Syllabus & Subjects

The syllabus & course curriculum is different for 1 year course and 2 year course. A PGPM course of 1 year duration is usually a professional certificate level course, but a 2 years PGPM course is almost equivalent to an MBA degree.

PGPM course of 2 years duration is divided into terms that have different subjects related to business management such as Business Laws, Financial Accounting, Marketing Management, Competition & Strategy, etc.

In the second year, students can choose elective subjects based on their interest. Although the elective subjects are different in different B-Schools in India, but in IIM Bangalore, IIM Trichy & other IIMs provides electives in fields such as General management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, etc.

The table below shows some of the common core and elective subjects included in the PGPM syllabus, along with the topics included in them:

PGPM Subjects	Topics Included
Financial Accounting & Management	Nature and Scope of Financial Management	Capital Budgeting
	Risk & Insurance Management	International Finance
	Taxation & Tax Planning	Financial Engineering
	Merchant Banking & Financial Services	Advance Equity Research
Business Communication	Theory of Communication	Important Parameters in Communication
	Customer Relations	Customer Behaviour
	Reputation Management	Consumer Behaviour
Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques	Behavioural Dynamics in Service Settings	Operations Strategy
	Project Management	Strategic Sourcing Management
	Supply Chain and Logistics Management	Decision Analysis for Managers
	Business Forecasting	Quality Toolkit for Managers
Marketing Management	Business Marketing	Digital Marketing
	International Marketing	Marketing to the Base of the Pyramid Consumers
	Retail Management Concepts	Sales and Distribution Management
	Strategic Marketing in Action	Consumer Behaviour
Business Analytics	Business Analytics for Decision Making	Data Mining for Business Decisions
	E-Business and E-Commerce	Information Technology Consulting
	Managing Software Projects	Managing Digital Transformations
Human Resource Management	Human Resource Metrics and Analytics	Managing Difficult People at Work
	Manpower Planning Recruitment and Selection	Performance Management
	Talent Management	Employment Relations Law
	Human Resource Planning	Industrial Relations Law

PGPM Admissions:

SPJIMR Mumbai PGPM Admissions	MDI Gurgaon PGPM Admissions	Great Lakes Chennai PGPM Admissions

PGPM Entrance Exams Syllabus

Admissions to PGPM course is usually done through entrance exams such as CAT, MAT, CMAT, XAT, GMAT, etc. The minimum PGPM eligibility to take admission is a minimum of 50% at graduation level along with a valid score of the entrance exam that is accepted in the elected college.

Most of the management entrance exams are MCQ based having sections such as Logical reasoning, Data Interpretation, Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension and General Awareness.

CAT Syllabus	MAT Syllabus
XAT Syllabus	GMAT Syllabus
CMAT Syllabus	GRE Syllabus

The following are the common sections that are common in most of the PGPM entrance exams:

Quantitative Ability:

It includes questions from Number System, Sequence, Series and Progression, Arithmetic, Mensuration, Geometry, Probability, Permutation & Combination, Venn Diagram, etc.

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension:

It includes questions from Unseen Passages, Analogies, Antonyms, Contextual usage, Fill in the blanks, Para Jumble, etc.

Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation:

It includes questions from Data Sufficiency, Pie Charts, Caselets, Tables, Combination of Graphs, Critical Reasoning, Seating Arrangement, Logical Deduction, Analogies, Binary logics, etc.

General Awareness:

This section includes questions from GK syllabus, current affairs, Business & Economy, Who’s who, taxation & duties, Film Awards, Indian Constitution, etc.

PGPM Entrance Exams Books

There are many preparation books and study material that a student can refer to while preparing for the PGPM entrance exams.

Check the table below:

Name of the Book	Name of the Author
How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CA	Arun Sharma & Meenakshi Upadhyay
How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for CAT	Arun Sharma
MAT Study Guide 2020-2021: MAT Exam Prep Review and Practice Test Questions for the Miller Analogies Test	Trivium Analogies Exam Prep Team
Quantitative Aptitude for CAT	Nishit K. Sinha
Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations	R.S. Aggarwal
General Knowledge 2020	Arihant Experts
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT	Nishit K. Sinha
Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency	Ananta Ashisha

Apart from the books mentioned above, there are many books and study material available in the market. There are many free PDF copies as well which are available on the internet.

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