How good is the new IIM Ahmedabad business analytics course? Please provide your views on whether one should enroll in it.
IIM Ahmedabad ePGD in Advance Business Analytics is a newly launched program by the b-school. The program is a perfect blend of tools and techniques for data visualization and modeling. The duration is for 16 months and ePGD admission is entrance based followed by an interview round.
As for the review, I am not sharing my own, but of a friend who recently completed this course. She considered the program to be very good but a bit on the expensive side. Let's break down the review into common aspects
- Placements: The placement percentage of this program is approximately 4% with the highest package offered around 85 LPA, the lowest salary package offered being 11 LPA. The top roles offered are relationship manager, business analyst, and area sales manager.
- Infrastructure: The entire campus is wifi-enables and has all the top-notch faculties one could ask for. Every classroom is fully air-conditioned and has modern teaching aids. You can access databases and journal websites through the online portal of the library. The accommodation facilities are also world-class.
- Faculty: IIM Ahmedabad has the highest qualified faculty pool that don't limit their teaching to classrooms only but rather engages in dynamic talk to ensure the holistic development of students.
Overall, the IIM Ahmedabad campus is superb and the excellent academic environment made choosing the Analytics program a great choice.
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The ePGD in Advanced Business Analytics course of IIMA is a 16-month-long diploma program. This course helps working professionals with essential knowledge and skills to address various analytic problems by asking the right questions and solving them by analyzing the right type of data. If you are an analytics professional and need a refresher, this course can be helpful. However, if you want to dive deep into the technical details then, this course is probably not right for you.
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You might be talking about the Executive Education programme in Advanced Analytics offered by IIM-A. The course is 6 days long. This course aims at students practicing analytics everyday. Since the course duration is 6 days, the faculty members do not focus on all the topics, but only brush up on the basics. They tend to focus mainly on Business Applications.
Analytics mainly has statistics at its core and the faculty does not seem to pay attention to that portion. Also topics like Data Visualization require a different approach of teaching, something teachers of statistics are unable to provide.
Topics like Forecasting, Regression, Text Mining and Classification are some of the basics and commonly used in industries. But due to the lack of information on the website it is very difficult to say how good the program is. If you are an analytics practitioner, this course may interest you. If you want it to provide technical benefits, it may be a lot harder to work it out in a 6 days span. Clustering is also equally important.
Here are 3 Analytics Executive Education program in the US -
- Leading with Big Data and Analytics Strategy.
- Business Analytics.
- Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data, Management, Programs - HBS Executive Education.
The course is good as it is a collaborated package of IIM Ahmedabad & Drexel University offering great analytical skills from the business perspective. The course is definitely a one stop learning platform for managers in order to dive into analytics and bring out the best results.
The course is perfectly suitable for candidates who need a refreshing start to their analytical base. An in-depth knowledge is not what you gain from this course. It's just a basic block building course which enables you to gain familiarity to different aspects.
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