IIM Mumbai Doctoral Program (PhD)

IIM Mumbai or Indian Institute of Management Mumbai offers a full time residential Ph.D. program. The program is globally recognized as the IIM Mumbai Institute and offers world class research opportunities and an education system that helps students to develop leadership skills and entrepreneurial qualities to stand out in the globally competitive world.

The Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) is a doctoral level program that is considered to be the highest academic qualification one can achieve. The IIM Mumbai Ph.D. is designed to nurture ecstatic scholars with a keen interest in the management field. The program is for candidates who are eager to carry out in depth research in various domains with a work quality that meets global standards.

The duration of the Ph.D. program at IIM Mumbai is 5 years and it is a full time program and includes fellowships and financial assistance from the institute meanwhile, to assist the working class IIM Mumbai also offers executive Ph.D. program but these students are required to spend at least 1 week per semester at the campus and are not entitled to any financial assistance. 

To offer a wide area of career opportunities and research facilities, IIM Mumbai offers Ph.D. programs in multiple specializations including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Analytics and Data Science, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics & Strategy, and Sustainability Management.

Students have to visit the campus if they are pursuing a Ph.D. from IIM Mumbai but an Online DBA program is similar to a Ph.D. program and can be pursued from any corner of the world without quitting a job or hampering the schedule of working professionals. 

Interested candidates, willing to enroll in a Ph.D. program offered at IIM Mumbai are required to fulfill the below mentioned eligibility criteria and admission requirements of the program:

• A candidate must have completed a master's degree with a 10+2+3 pattern education qualification from a valid and recognized university.
• A minimum of 55% of the aggregate marks are required at both graduation and postgraduation levels. 
• A candidate with a 4 year/8 semester bachelor's degree with a 6.5 CGPA or above score is also eligible to apply for the Ph.D. program at IIM Mumbai.
• Candidates with qualifications in professional courses like CA, ICWA, and CS can also apply if they have scored 60% marks in their bachelor’s degree. 
• The applicant must have a valid score in GATE, GRE, GMAT, and JRF (UGC/CSIR) or have qualified CAT examination.

Note: A student willing to pursue a doctorate degree after a bachelor’s degree can enroll in an online DBA program that requires a minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience along with a bachelor's degree.

A student can use the EMI facility to pay for the programme fee and additional fees to the institute. EMI could be availed by a student from a plethora of legit EMI providers. An EMI facility eases the burden of students’ financial constraints. Due to the management courses, in institutes such as IIM Mumbai being expensive, it’s challenging to come up with the required money up-front.

The syllabus of a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) program varies from specialization to specialization. The electives chosen by the students determine the curriculum of their Ph.D. program. The major part of a Ph.D. program syllabus is occupied by research methodologies in various aspects. The Ph.D. covers subjects and topics from Psychology, Sociology, Science, Probability, General Aptitude, etc. The program syllabus slightly touches topics from 10+2 educational qualifications, graduation, postgraduation, mathematics, and others. The Ph.D. program at IIM Mumbai is a 39 credit program divided into 3 modules. The first module consists of 5 courses & 15 credits followed by module 2 with 4 courses & 6 credits, and last module 3 with 4 courses & 12 credits. To give a brief overview of the Ph.D. program at IIM Mumbai, some core subjects of the syllabus are listed below:

IIM Mumbai’s examination and evaluation pattern is set in such a way that it enhances and preserves whatever the student is learning. Using experiential learning to register whatever is learned, the student gets to go through testing formats and understand the subject. There are group exercises that test the student’s ability to cooperate and collaborate. Then there are case studies that broaden perspectives and develop the skillset through the main insights derived from the case study. One could apply concepts and theories to make a project that tests the ability to create something new or discover new paradigms out of the existing knowledge and concepts. Then final exams are held that evaluate the total knowledge, concepts and skills, in order to solidify them.

A candidate with a career objective of becoming a successful professional in the academic domain can enroll in a Ph.D. program as it offers various job prospects and lucrative salaries to candidates in the education industry. Meanwhile, students looking for career advancement and better job opportunities in the corporate field can enroll in an online DBA program specially designed for working professionals. 

A few job profiles students can opt for after completing their Ph.D. program from IIM Mumbai are listed below with their average salaries respectively: