IIM Calcutta on Thursday mentioned it will likely be digitally conducting the flagship two-year MBA programme for the incoming batch of 2020-2022 from August 10.
Round 480 college students from throughout the nation might be becoming a member of the digital courses.
On-line courses for second-year MBA college students will begin from August 3.
Retaining in thoughts the security of the candidates, workers and school members within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all admission interviews have been carried out on-line, an IIM-C assertion mentioned.
“Because it was not possible to conduct written capability check with equity by way of the net admission course of, the institute determined to not take into account the weightage given for WAT for the ultimate number of MBA 2020-22 batch,” it mentioned.
Prof Peeyush Mehta, Operations Administration Group, mentioned the institute is creating expertise options for MBA college students to “mimic” the classroom expertise to the extent potential in on-line mode.
“To make the educational expertise higher, the scholars might be distributed throughout six sections of sophistication power, 80 in every part. There could be a mean of four-five hours of whole classroom reside contact hours,” he mentioned.
The institute can even help college students going through web points, together with offering recordings of a missed class, alternative to work together with the instructors after the category and extra tutorials, Mehta mentioned.
“Overcoming the challenges posed by the pandemic, we now have put a plan in place to make sure a wonderful studying expertise by way of on-line on-boarding and instruction for the incoming batch,” Director, Prof Anju Seth, mentioned.