which college would be better among symbosis and nmims for pgdfm 2 year programme

There have been some fairly interesting insights over here.



However I would recommend NMIMS Mumbai.



SIBM P Scores over NMIMS Mumbai in the following areas:



Batch size, the batch size of SIBM P is around 180 wheras NMIMS Mumbai last year was 600+. However, the cut off this year for NMIMS Mumbai increased, and there are talk of reducing the intake for the current bacth of 201820.



Residential Programme: I agree to a large extent that an MBA Programme should be a Residential Programme and not a Day Scholars Programme. SIBM Pune has a beautiful campus wheras NMIMS Mumbai only has a single Building (Albeitly a huge and sophisticated one)



NMIMS Mumbai scores over SIBM P in the Follwing areas:



Location: It is situated in the heart of the Financial Capital of India. This plays a huge advantage in terms of placement opportunities



The Course Content: Their course content based on the Harvard Curriculum wins hands down.



Opportunites: The opportunities provided at NMIMS are better in terms of committees and Clubs.



Academic Rigour: An MBA is supposed to be a rigorous programme, and NMIMS fullfills this obligation. There have been feedbacks from SIBM P that their course is fairly chilled out (This is Bad)



Also NMIMS is located in a fairly posh area. So you have access to a wide range of ammeneties (restaurants, malls, clubs). However this is not a significant point.



Neutral Points



Fees: Till last year SIBM Pune had a huge advantage over NMIMS with comparitively lesser fees and thus a better ROI. However the fees of SIBM Pune has increased to 20 Lakhs. The fees for NMIMS, as far as I know is 19.25 Lakhs (+/- 0.25 Lakhs). So with Hostel accomodations, itll come to around 24 Lakhs. So if youre from Mumbai, NMIMS by a small margin. If youre not from either cities, you can choose either



Placements: The Median and Average Package of both are more or less similiar with the advantage going to SIBM P(owing chiefly to their low batch size). However seniors from NMIMS Mumbai have told me that the Average package of NMIMS Mumbai is not 12 Lakhs as stated by some sources but rather 14 - 15 Lakhs. Also the highest package of NMIMS Mumbai last year was 34.02 lakhs as opposed to 28 Lakhs by SIBM Pune.



Conclusion:



For Finance, Marketing and IT: Choose NMIMS Mumbai



For HR: Choose SIBM Pune or SCMHRD. (Do notchoose NMIMS over SIBM P for HR)



For Operations: Choose neither. Try and get into NITIE or SJMSOM.