Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Motto Transcending Horizons
Established 1981
Type Deemed University
Academic staff 200
Students 10000
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Campus Urban
Acronym NMIMS
Affiliations UGC, NAAC, CRISIL
Website www.nmims.edu

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS University) is a private university in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. This institute was established in 1981 by the parent body Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal. The university hopes to contribute to strengthening the corporate foundation by imparting training in the latest techniques and know-how. It has been awarded "Five Star" rating and "A" grade by the NAAC and UGC. NMIMS has also been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 Certification by ICL in 2004, and a "A***" rating by CRISIL.[1] The institute was granted "Deemed University" status by the UGC in 2003. It has campuses in Mumbai, Shirpur, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

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School of Business Management

The School of Business Management (SBM-NMIMS) is one of the leading management institutes in India offering post-graduate programmes in Master of Business Administration (MBA) and post-graduate diploma in Management (PGDM).[2] Initially, it was affiliated to the University of Mumbai but it has been affiliated to NMIMS University since 2003.

Business management programmes

SBM-NMIMS offers the following post-graduate programmes:

Links with overseas universities

Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering

Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering (MPSTME) is a college of engineering and management.

MPSTME came into existence in 2006-07 with the entry of the third batch of MBA (Tech) and second batch of B-Tech in 2007-08 program started in 2004 and 2005 respectively. MPSTME campus is located in Vile Parle, Mumbai.

MPSTME is equipped with a large library with e-models, e-catalogues and an online database: Online Public Access Catalog on the intranet.

Degree Courses are offered in Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Information Technology and Chemical. There are recreation lounges and sports facilities.

Engineering and Technology Management Programs Offered

The following programs of Engineering and Technology Management are offered under this School:

These programs are offered at the Mumbai and Shirpur campuses.

School of Pharmacy and Technology Management

The School of Pharmacy and Technology Management (SPTM) was founded in 2006 with a vision to serve the healthcare system of India.

Students of the SPTM are selected from a pool of nationwide applicants who meet the stringent entrance requirements.

SPTM has full-time and visiting faculty from all areas and has research scholars who are working in diverse areas like novel drug delivery system (NDDS), computer-aided drug design, analytical method development, phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation of drugs.

Pharmacy programmes

Full-time programs

Part-time programs

Pharmaceutical sciences

School of Distance Learning

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture was founded in 2007 and offers undergraduate course in architecture to a batch of 40 students admitted every year.

Architecture programme

School of Science

Considering the expertise available in the disciplines of science at the C. B. Patel Research Centre, Mithibai College, D. J. Sanghvi Engineering College and N. M. College, the NMIMS deemed-to-be-university established a School of Science in 2007 whose purpose is to develop technically skilled manpower for industry.

Science programmes

With the boom in information technology and increasing sophistication in instrumentation techniques, there is now a very thin dividing line between the disciplines of science. Therefore there is a greater need for flexibility in scientific thought as well as training on an interdisciplinary plane. With this thought in view, the NMIMS deemed-to-be-university has introduced three highly innovative and unique interdisciplinary courses at the School of Science from the academic year 2007-2008.

Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics

Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics aims to innovative its B.Sc (Economics) course with its holistic, multidisciplinary approach to education and combining theory with practice. The course is integrated with Finance, Business, Law and Social Sciences and focuses also on developing Analytical, Organisational and Soft Skills.

Economics programme

Anil Surendra School of Commerce

The Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce (ASMSOC) at NMIMS is one of its youngest schools. It aims to impart quality undergraduate business/management education following the respected and time-honoured traditions of NMIMS in the field of graduate management education.

The School of Commerce first opened its doors to an incoming batch in 2007. The next three years saw initiatives on several fronts.

ASMSOC has had visits from foreign institutions for collaborative programs/student exchanges, who have gone away impressed by the school's pedagogical approach to undergraduate education. ASMSOC is translating these deliberations into firm commitments that will benefit the school in the long run.

The pedagogic innovations included upgrading the learning process through case studies and presentations and enhancing the overall student experience through interactive class discussions, debates, project based assignments and a system of continuous evaluation.

The ASMSOC follows a trimester-based approach to course delivery and scheduling and a CGPA (cumulative grade point average) based relative method of grading.

Commerce and Management programmes

The school offers two three-year full-time undergraduate programs.

Libraries

NMIMS University libraries reflect the complete world of scholarship and information. It is the work of the NMIMS libraries to provide the faculty, students, and researchers — now and in the future — with comprehensive access to these materials. The NMIMS University Library is named officially as “R.M. Desai Library”, after illustrious trustee Shri Rasiklal Maniben Desai. The library was established in 1982, with a focus of developing library catering to management education. With the growth of institute to university, the library also grew.

Today, NMIMS has seven libraries in single system. The university library has a Mumbai campus library and a Shirpur operations library. The library is well-furnished and air conditioned. The library has an extensive collection of 58,000 volumes of books covering all aspects of business & management, pharmacy & pharmacology, engineering, architecture, science and commerce and related areas like economics, behavioural science, information technology, law, etc. The core of the collections is found in the School of Business Management Library (Mumbai Campus) and is acknowledged as the flagship library.

The periodical section is a vital source for academic research and up-to-date business information. Besides books and journals, library houses audio-video material, newspapers, reports, case studies, news clippings, management games, and psychology and management test. Library users can access more than 5000 full-text journals covering titles published by Elsevier (Science Direct), Springer, John Wiley, etc. and from agregators like Ebsco and Proquest. Links to corporate databases like CMIE, Capital Markets, ISI Emerging Markets are available. The library arranges regular awareness programmes on use of electronic resources.

The entire library collection can be searched through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). Users can access the OPAC to find out the real-time availability of library materials. Faculty and students can reserve items that are on loan. Faculty and students are encouraged to send request for new acquisition through the OPAC. The facility is moving from an electronic library to a digital library. In the first step, the library has scanned all the question papers and are live for users use through OPAC. CDs, VCDs, and DVDs are mirrored and kept on a dedicated server.

The learning resource provides a number of innovative information services and electronic databases that facilitates research including Journal Contents Service, News Clipping Service, Monthly Documents Additions Lists, Info Alert Service and online CD viewing.

The library has an institutional membership with British Council Library and American Information Resource Center wherein users can use the resources from both these libraries. The library is a member of INDEST AICTE consortia. Library also has tie ups with Harvard Business School for cases for other Harvard products.

The library organizes one seminar every year where librarians from all over the country come together to discuss a particular topic. On a lighter side, library runs a movie club through which all the NMIMS community enjoys a movie every month. The library conducts an annual user survey to understand where the library is lacking and help improve and maintain the services that are appreciated. The target users are the students and faculty members. The survey covers the users overall opinion about the library collection, services, timings, awareness level about e-resources and reading area.

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