150% Fee Hike At IIT Biz School

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Vinodh Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), the B-school at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, will hike the fees for its flagship programme by 150 per cent from the next session.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />Following the recent trend in other educational institutes, the fees for the two-year postgraduate diploma course would be increased from <img style="border: 3px solid black; margin: 3px 4px; float: left;" src=" https://images.shiksha.com/mediadata/images/1268048147phpIStEmt.jpeg" alt="">Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh from July 2010.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />&ldquo;Most other institutes are charging much higher fees. We are in the process of improving our infrastructure too,&rdquo; said Damodar Acharya, the director of IIT Kharagpur.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />The B-school authorities have decided to offer between 50 per cent and 100 per cent fee waivers to 25 per cent students of the 120-strong batch.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />The VGSOM will also introduce two executive MBA programmes in the next academic year &mdash; one exclusively for IT professionals, to be offered at the IIT&rsquo;s Bhubaneswar campus, and the other a general executive course, to be taught at the Salt Lake campus. &ldquo;Both will be three-year courses. Classes will be held in the evenings on weekends via video conferencing and classroom lectures,&rdquo; said Acharya.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />The institute is also planning to start management development programmes, more international tie-ups and faculty training.</p> <p><strong>Source: Business Today</strong></p> <hr /> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>For further details about related courses and colleges please click below:</strong></span></p> <p>Related courses and colleges</p>