SP Jain doesn’t provide any specific course for PGDM in operations. They have one executive MBA in operations and Supply chain management. It’s 11 months and it requires a minimum work experience of 4 years. So, if you have relevant work experience in operations and just need to brush up your skills you should definitely go for SP Jain.
There might be as IIFT Delhi does not have a specific cut-off for 12th standard scores for admission to its MBA (IB) program. However, 10 percentage points of weightage are given to the 12th score. So higher your 12th score more beneficial it will be in your admission process.
After your MBA from IIFT Delhi, you could apply for numerous IT jobs with 3.5 years of experience. Popular roles include:
After earning an MBA from IIFT Delhi, these are some possible careers. Your abilities, experience, and interests, as well as company demands, will determine your job prospects.
IIFT Delhi is way better than even New IIMs, let alone Baby IIMs. If you need evidence, you can look at how although IIM Shillong and other new IIMs were opened about 10–15 years ago, none of them are even close to IIFT Delhi’s ranking (I suggest you check genuine rankings like Inside IIM, Career Launcher and T.I.M.E). IIFT Delhi can only be compared to IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore.
Two items are sought for by traders:
Knowledge & Passion
Basic knowledge of commodity and oil understanding for traders. like the peaks, troughs, and volume of well-known commodities. Your viewpoint on a certain product or the global economy. How do you stay informed about news? For example, do you understand how to use the Bloomberg Terminal? What are your alternatives and duties?
Decisions
This is especially crucial when you attend interviews. They want to know about any situations where you had to make difficult choices, or else they might instigate something to make you the subject of a trade judgment.
Due to the fact that the majority of trade companies entering IIFT will offer positions where you will need to make difficult decisions on a regular basis and mistakes might be expensive!
They focus more on your attitude than your grades!
IIFT Delhi's lowest percentile was 68, according to official data. This information is from the previous academic year and may not apply to the current year. Program type and candidate category can also affect percentile. The IIFT website has the latest and most reliable information.
To take the best out of IIFT Delhi, first and foremost things is to attend all the classes and study hard, and second is to involve yourself in some kind of sports and cultural activities, there are too many sports competitions on Campus as well as in Delhi.
Every MBA college has so many clubs and committees like placements, sports, and cultural activities, so could be a part of one such committee, although the process to join them is pretty harsh, you can go for it. Lastly, you could explore Delhi and the places nearby, and make a good friend circle and connections.
Assuming that you passed the IIFT exam for this year, keep it straightforward. You have an advantage over other applicants that are applying as engineers because your profile is unique. Also, a non-engineering candidate gets a 5-point entra over the engineering candidates and also 2 points for gender diversity in the final selection process. You just need to take advantage of that.
Be knowledgeable about your graduation accomplishments and how you may use them for your MBA. You should also consider how an MBA can improve your skill set and enhance your professional career. If you effectively prepare your answers, you can easily make it through to IIFT Delhi in the first shortlist.
However, if you plan to take the IIFT the following year, there is no specific guidance for passing the exam other than practicing hard, being aware of your abilities, and doing what you can to minimize your weaknesses.
The final score calculated for shortlisting gives 73% weightage to the IIFT score and only 20% to past academic records.
For the Final selection criteria, IIFT Score weighs 45 % and WAT, GD, and PI weigh 40% and academic consistency is just 8%.
You must score well in IIFT and perform well and WAT, GD, and PI to convert your dream B-School.
Colleges invite companies for placements on the basis of the preference list created by the students themselves. This means that the most preferred companies visit in the initial days while the least preferred companies visit towards the end. This eventually means that the last of the batch gets placed by mediocre companies.
Now here is a fact, sometimes the companies visiting at the end in order to get higher preference and attract maximum students, offer high packages that are at par with the preferred companies.
My uncle was a placement coordinator at IIFT a few years ago and gave me an insight into the placement scenario of such B Schools. Numerically speaking if the median salary of a particular B School is X, then the packages offered to the last 59 students would be around 0.6X-0.7X.
College Name |
Median Salary |
Salary expected by last 50 candidates |
IIM Indore |
INR 24.09 LPA |
INR 16.8 LPA |
IIFT Delhi |
INR 25.6 LPA |
INR 17.9 LPA |
MDI Gurgaon |
INR 24 LPA |
INR 16.8 LPA |
SIBM Pune |
INR 20.80 LPA |
INR 14.5 LPA |
The approximate salary offered to the last 50 candidates of the B Schools you mentioned is around 15-17 LPA.
Kindly note that these figures are based solely on guesses and anecdotes from my juniors, and are just meant to give an idea of the salary.