Vineeth Nair 's Review On SPJIMR, Mumbai

Undoubtedly one of the finest management institution in India and has grown in strength year on year. It's today ranked among India top 5 Management institution consistently. The vision to deliver highly trained management professionals has been consistent and the institute has managed to keep up with the ever changing dynamic business environment the fact that it's located in Mumbai has also helped.

The VET for MMS admission in 91 and was eligible to apply to almost all colleges across Mumbai that offered the MMS course. Applied to Jamnalal Bajaj and to S P Jain as these were the highly rated colleges and made it to S P jain.

Intensive and comprehensive . The first of the two year course comprising of two semesters were common to all and the next year comprising of two final semesters were the ones where you chose your specialisations. I chose marketing over finance and PC.

Good I did my summer Internship with Standard Chartered Bank and earned a stipend of Rs 8000 pm. It was a 8 week internship. I also did take part in a number of projects that involves external companies and organisations. The key point was that students from SP Jain were welcome and respected for their intelligence. In almost all projects the faculty was involved and guided us through the whole process. It was analysed and discussed in groups to bring out the projects efficacy in the real world.

Outstanding the batch of approximately 100 were placed in two days with every student receiving at least 2 offers. I had an offer with 3 companies and chose Coats Viyella or Madura Coats in Bangalore. My package if I recollect correctly was 8 lakh as MT for the first 12 months.

College festivals included a mix of academic quizzing focused on business. Cultural events in conjunction with external organisations and limited sporting events. The college I must admit was not hugely involved in such events.

It was feasible and within reach of most. It was maybe a little higher than many Management institutions but was worth every penny. The fee was payable in installment of 6 parts and did not come across as expensive. It was a small fee to be payed in terms of the returns that was expected when we passed out.

Campus life is criticalit puts you in to a "shared world" of dreams expectations and competitions. It forces you to hone your skills and inculcates habits that hols you in good stead for the rest of your work life. But its all work and little play. The competition is intense and the gap of intellect and attitude is very narrow with no real winner and looser. The distance between the top and bottom student is just a few marks apart The sex ratio is heavily skewed to my dismay in favour of boys. Very few and not very attractive women like most engineering colleges women formed 10 to 15% of all students.

Fairly active and most of us are proud of our college. It's students are today's top notch managers in some of the world's top companies. The seniors and juniors are in touch through a fairly active alumni and tend to help each other regularly. I am in touch through our alumni association and take part in get togethers and also assist in regional interviews for selecting the next batch of students.

Continuous Evaluation through a series of Quizzes,a mid semester exam and a Semester paper. Hectic was the period classes from 8 am to 8 pm with some short breaks and extremely stressful.

Top notch faculty led by the dean Dr Manish. It included a range of highly educated proffesors and some committed lecturer's. The stand out feature of S P Jain wad the impressive array of External faculty comprising of top notch industry professionals who were the once who managed to give a great perspective of the real world.