Executive PGDM Rural Management at IRMA Anand Offline Course

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Rural Management - Executive), PGDM(RM-X) is designed for executives working in specific functional areas of their organizations such as finance, accounting, marketing, human resource management, operations and projects, aspiring to enhance their skills and knowledge to move into managerial roles. The programme aims to give them a deeper and a hands-on experience in the challenges faced by organizations serving under-served segments of the economy. For executives, entrepreneurs and educationalists that are keen to work in this sector, it provides an ideal platform to enhance management acumen through a rigorous management curriculum, enriched with deep in-field learning and garnering first-hand insights. This Executive Management programme is a 15-month, full-time residential programme, recognized as equivalent to Executive MBA programme.

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Rural) (the program) will be essential for those aspirants in the supervisory/ managerial category who have a good amount of practical work experience. The professionals can have continuing education in rural management. They would need working skills in most of the functional areas e.g. finance, accounting, marketing, human resource management, operations, projects and the contextual understanding of rural in performing their jobs. Therefore, the major focus of this program is to match both conceptual issues with real-life organizational problems and focus on the program is more on simulating the actual work life.

The curriculum of the program includes courses on marketing, finance, development, operations, organization design, and systems in the rural context. It is designed with an emphasis on experiential learning through one internship segment on village fieldwork exposure and another internship segment which provides three months of on-field learning. Areas of focus include business economics, cooperatives, dairying, agribusiness, rural finance, microfinance, rural marketing, development consulting, public policy, development project execution, social change interventions, big data operations, and analytics.