Campus Diary

Gurgaon, the legendary land of archery gurudom, has long ceased speaking of "targets" as literal objects to be hit militarily. The "guru's village" is now the land of business gurudom, and in the world of corporate warfare, a target is a market to be attac""well, addressed.

The locally located Management Development Institute (MDI) has decided to make the transition easy for ex-personnel from the armed forces by launching a six-month certificate course in Business Administration designed especially for them. Business, needless to add, is a major attraction for opt-outs from the forces.

NMIMS MUMBAI
Risk Analysis Tools

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), located in Mumbai colloquial's "Paarla" area, wants B-school students to vault their minds across to Dalal Street.

It has tied up with SAS, which makes business intelligence software, to offer a specialized two-year "MBA in Capital Markets" course. Data Mining and Risk Intelligence are part of the programme, for which SAS software will be used.

According to N M Kondap, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS, "It has become imperative to equip the students with tools which harness their natural analytical ability."

Adds Sudipta K. Sen, Managing Director & CEO, SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd, "The deployment of SAS business intelligence solutions is aimed at bridging the intelligence gap between academia and business."

UNIVERSITAS 21 GLOBAL
Online Access

Singapore-based Universitas 21 Global, an online graduate B-school (that operates as a joint venture between a global network of 16 universities called Universitas 21 and an educational solutions firm called Thomson Learning), has thrown open admissions to a new specialized management course in travel & tourism.

But wouldn't that require the student's physical presence? The question does not faze Mukesh Aghi, the former president of IBM India who heads Universitas 21 Global. The B-school already has 800 students from 45 countries, and Aghi sees no reason that online education cannot fan out.

SMA SINGAPORE
Surprising India

Students in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai on the lookout for a business education are in for a surprise. Come late September, they will find themselves being asked to study at the famed MIT""in Singapore.

In other words, they will find themselves being charmed by The Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA). Begun only in late 1998, SMA is a collaboration between National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and the original Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.