KJ Somaiya Executive MBA in Operations

The MBA for Working Executives-Operations is a 15-month management program that specializes in Operations, provided by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management. This program creates management professionals who can be business leaders who can scale organizational goals through the management knowledge & skills obtained from the program. In addition to that, it could also be an opportunity to switch to research in the academic pursuits of the management field where the student gets to carry out research & studies in depth, new discoveries, and teaching skills. 

The student gets to pursue this program while continuing at his/her current job and apply learnings on the job where he/she gets to scale up the [projects in which they are involved. The modules & courses are curated by experts such as industry professionals with high experience in their trade, eminent faculties who offer years of academic knowledge, etc. who customize this program according to the learning requirements of working professionals who need to balance studies and jobs together.

The curriculum develops foundational knowledge & skills in various functional areas of management which are taught for the student to identify their niche and also use the learnings of other functional areas to understand the structures of the business world meant to be figured out for handling various kinds of management professionals from diverse domains and products/services that are domain-specific or related to multiple functionalities of business. 

The student gets to do courses in the specialization of Operations. For students, this specialization is meant to give a proper understanding of the different stages involved in the journey of a product/service where at each step of the way the student is trained to optimize the output of the product at each stage and carry out an efficient throughput of the product/service. 

The student learns how an operations professional calculates the balance between resources, final product finish, selling, etc. where he./she plans where to cut costs, hold back/employ resources, sale strategy, etc., and employs the planning out of the process in order to maximize the profits out of all the stages of the process by strategically allocating resources and planning the judicious distribution across the entire supply chain from gathering the resources to the production to the retail point of sale to feedback.

The K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management is a management education institute that provides programs on management across different verticals and formats through which robust curriculums make a complete managerial personality out of a student studying at this institute. It has been ranked 63rd among the highly performing management education institutions of the country, under the NIRF Rankings 2024. Being among the management education institutes that have a world-class curriculum in place which is validated by the accreditation the institute has received from the international management education regulatory body that is AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

The fees for the MBA for Working Executives-Operations, provided by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management is INR 3.3 Lakhs.

For the MBA for Working Executives-Operations, provided by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management, the eligibility criteria for enrolment is given below:

• To be considered for enrolment, the candidate must have completed a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university/institution in any discipline.
• For the following degree formats, a minimum work experience is required to be considered:
• For a 10+2+3 degree holder, the minimum work experience is 3 years.
• For a 10+2+4 degree holder, the minimum work experience is 2 years.
• The work experience must be counted as full-time jobs after graduation.
• The minimum aggregate mark or its equivalent CGPA at graduation must be 50%.

The fee structure of the program is quite affordable but to assist students facing financial constraints the institute offers various financial aids and allows them to pay their program fee in 5 installments. Every installment has the same amount but they have specific dates and the enrolled students are required to pay their fees on specified dates provided by the institution to avoid any fine or action from the institution end. 

The syllabus of the MBA for Working Executives-Operations is given below. It consists of core management courses as well as specialization-based courses.

The examination pattern opted by the institute is a semester examination pattern that includes internal and term end examinations. The examinations are equipped with course presentations, projects, case studies, assignments, quizzes, and many more academic activities to evaluate the overall theoretical and practical understanding of the students throughout their academic journey. Every examination is conducted through online procured means for managing transparency and integrity of the examinations. 

Organizations need to be diligent at each stage of a product/service so that all the stakeholders involved at each stage are giving out their best output so that ultimately the product/service is sold as a standard quality product/service that is a result of strategic planning that balances the sale outcome with the actions taken to handle costs, savings and pragmatic distribution of resources at each stage. The student who aims to work in Operations needs to understand that both the organization's goals and customer satisfaction must be balanced in such a way as to maximize profits and sales where the organization saves and flourishes at the same time.

The K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management conducts placements for the students of the MBA for Working Executives-Operations. The recruiters of various companies are on the lookout for the ones who have business sense, incorporate logic and action into their tasks, and have a complete managerial personality. These recruiters represent reputed organizations such as Arcesium, Oracle, IDFC First Bank, Cognizant, Havells, etc. The highest salary obtained by the student of the MBA for Working Executives-Operations is around INR 26-28 LPA. The average salary obtained by the students of the MBA for Working Executives-Operations is around INR 12-14 LPA. 

Some of the job roles taken up by the students of the MBA for Working Executives-Operations program after completion are given below: