Odisha HRD

Chennai Business School forays into Bhubaneswar

June 5th, 2007

New Indian Express reports that the Chennai Business School will open a center in Bhubaneswar. Following are excerpts from that report.

The new campus will offer programmes in retail management and insurance to start with.

Outlining the unique points of the courses, CBS faculty Sridar Natarajan said students graduating with retail management would get into work right from day one without having to undergo any in-house training.

“We would expose the students to six months of hands on experience in retail houses where they would work as interns,” he said. The programme would be of one-year duration and cost a candidate Rs 2.5 lakh.

The school has tied up with Indian Bank to extend loan facilities. Admission would be based on personal interviews and scores obtained in CAT and MAT. Academic records would also be taken into consideration.

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The school will enrol 40 students per batch for the programme. It will commence in September this year.

Natarajan, who is the dean of the insurance varsity, said the insurance programme would also commence in July.

The institute was incubated by a group of CEOs coming from diverse backgrounds such as automobile, telecom, IT, retail, entertainment, communication and engineering, among others.

The school focuses on four verticals namely human resource varsity, marketing communication varsity, retail varsity and telecom varsity.

Bangalore and Mumbai are the other two cities where it has proposed to set up campuses.

For a background on Chennai Business School one may have a look at the Hindu Business line article of March 2006, which reports its starting in Chennai in 2006 by senior executives who were not happy that the existing business schools in India were using case studies mostly from abroad and were graduating students 70% of which were not employable.

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