MBA Corporate Leadership

• Two-year, four-semester MBA focused on leadership, strategy, HR, and corporate decision-making, combining foundation management subjects with deep leadership, team, and change-management coursework.
• Develops theoretical and practical capacity to lead units, functions, projects, and full organizations in dynamic environments.
• Emphasizes leadership, human resource management, emotional intelligence, negotiation, and organizational change.
• Integrates core management domains: finance, marketing, economics, statistics/analytics, MIS, law, international business, and strategy.
• Uses seminars, practicums, experiential learning projects, and dissertation to force application, reflection, and professional presentation.
• Targets graduates (management and non-management) and lower/middle-level managers who want promotion to higher executive roles.
• Learning outcomes: strategic and operational decision-making, global-local business awareness, complex problem-solving, ethical and responsible leadership.

Semester-wise Curricular Structure

Semester I

Semester II

Semester III

Semester IV

Elective Basket (2 courses, 2 credits each)

• Leading for Quality and Innovation
• Corporate Governance
• Crisis Management
• Cooperative Management
• Agribusiness Management
• Financial Institutions Management
• Life and Non-life Insurance
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Microfinance
• Project Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Essentials of Management Consultancy

Features

• 60-credit, four-semester MBA with foundation, core, capstone, and electives.
• Explicit leadership focus: leadership theory, EI, team building, change and OD, negotiation.
• Strong HR and people-management emphasis alongside finance, marketing, and strategy.
• Industrial tour (3–4 days) in Semester III with lodging and transport covered by CDM.
• Intensive pedagogies: case studies, role plays, simulations, article reviews, quizzes, workshops, seminars.
• Experiential Learning Project (10–12 week internship) with structured evaluation (host rating, report, seminar).
• Orientation and socialization program fully funded by CDM.
• Dissertation (~30,000 words) with viva and external evaluation.

Admission Process

• Minimum bachelor’s degree (any discipline) with:
  • Semester system: CGPA ≥ 2.0
  • Annual system: ≥ 45%
• One intake per year (Spring, Jan–Feb), class size capped at ~35.
• Four-stage competitive selection:
  • CDMAT written test (3.5 hours, quantitative, verbal, analytical, business knowledge).
  • Group discussion (evaluated on leadership, language, logic, conclusion).
  • Individual presentation on assigned topic.
  • Personal interview (motivation, attitude, stress-handling, program fit).
• Must maintain:
  • Minimum GPA 2.7 (B−) in a course to sit the semester-end exam.
  • Overall CGPA ≥ 3.0 (B) and at least B− in every course to graduate.
• Degree completion limit: within 5 years from registration.

Job Prospects

• Management trainee and future line manager in banks, insurance, telecom, FMCG, manufacturing, IT, development sector.
• Corporate leadership pipeline roles (team lead, unit head, project manager).
• HR manager / people and culture lead.
• Business analyst, strategy analyst, or management consultant (junior–mid level).
• Entrepreneur / cofounder in SMEs and startups.
• Corporate relations, stakeholder management, CSR and governance roles.
• Change management, OD (organizational development), and learning & development positions.