MBA Development and Sustainable Finance at IIFM Bhopal Offline Course

MBA (Development and Sustainable Finance) is another unique programme will be launched from 2025-26 Session. The programme aims at developing competencies among financial professionals in designing financial instruments that create stakeholder value and thus help achieve SDGs.

Sustainable finance is an emerging concept that encompasses environmental finance, social finance and corporate governance aspects in investments and lending decisions in the context of achieving sustainable development goals and the Paris climate change agreement.

The underlying principle of Sustainable Finance rests on the principle of internalizing the environmental and social externalities into investment and the lending decisions. Alternatively, the broad goal of sustainable finance is to maximize the stakeholder value rather than only shareholder value.

This program is designed to help students who want to understand the principles and practices of sustainable finance and would like to equip themselves with the tools and knowledge necessary to integrate ESG considerations. Students will gain an understanding of the various approaches to sustainable finance, including green bonds, Energy Finance, impact investing, and ESG integration.

This MBA (Development and Sustainable Finance) is a fully residential two-year Post Graduate level programme. The programme focusses in the first year on core management education related to developmental, social, environmental and sustainability concerns. Emphasis will be on core skills and concepts in all the classroom terms of first year and in term four of the second year. The students can choose five credit elective courses each in term four and five, based on the interest of students where students want to concentrate and specialize. In addition to the classroom courses, one summer internship, one project work and one field work components are also included in the curriculum for experimental learning. The programme focusses on open learning through elective courses in the curriculum as per requirements.