The Biz Whiz

With a contemporary curriculum, innovative pedagogy, industry internship and guest faculty from the corporate world, this college has an edge over the others.

- Aditi Pai

At 7.30 am, the BBA classrooms at Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) 

Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce (ASMSOC) come alive with excitement and activity as students log onto the Bloomberg terminals tracking stock updates, currency and commodity prices and analysing the data. “We focus on practical training in our classrooms so that our students become good decisionmakers with social sensitivity and a focus on customers,” says Professor Sangita Kher, dean of the institute located in Mumbai’s Vile Parle area. The emphasis, she says, is on experiential and analytical learning. For instance, in the fifth semester of the programme, a course in Business Analytics is delivered from the USbased SAS Institute. The students are taught Advanced Analytics, Multivariate Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Management and Predictive Analytics.

It’s the hands-on experience that makes the institute a preferred choice among students who want to study BBA. The whiteboard in Kher’s office lists more than 11,000 applications for 480 seats this year.