TAPMI: Making A Difference

Named after founder T. A. Pai, TAPMI was established with a vision of creating responsible business leaders, those who dream, achieve, and resolve to make a difference. Located on a sprawling 42-acre residential green campus, TAPMI aims to provide endless opportunities for growth with an integrated living and learning environment.

“We take pride in the academic rigor and relevance practiced at TAPMI. We imbibe thorough business knowledge in students, making them business ready right from the first day. We also believe in the power of experiential learning, one of the pillars of education at TAPMI. Every element in our action-based and outcome-centric curriculum are geared towards teaching students through real experiences,” mentions its Website. Case study-based teaching, simulation games, management in practice, brandscan and its exchange programmes are a few engagements that take students beyond the four walls of the classroom and instil leadership qualities that in turn enable the students to tackle business challenges head-on.

Academic Breadth
TAPMI’s two-year PG Diploma in Management is its flagship programme designed to push students to go beyond their constraints and redraw their boundaries to achieve excellence in business. PGDM student Naomi Raphael (2014-16) agrees: “We have a lot of simulation games…everything from strategic simulation to marketing simulation to something as small as how pricing dynamics work in a competition marketplace and I think that has been exceptional for us…”

Apart from this, it offers domain-focused courses such as its two-year PGDM in Healthcare, which aims to create leaders for the healthcare sector. Here, students are given an opportunity to learn and apply comprehensive managerial and technical expertise required to tackle the challenges of today’s complex global healthcare system. The PGDM in Banking and Financial Services course is built on a unique curriculum structure that fortifies a student’s skills and knowledge in finance.

In line with its vision of becoming a global business school, the institute also offers an exchange programme. Last year TAPMI signed an MoU with Macquarie University in Sydney, which allows students to spend a term at Macquarie University. The programme is designed to expand and enrich knowledge through academic and cultural exchange in teaching, research and other programmes and activities.

In July this year, it also signed an Academic Cooperation Agreement with Emporia State University, Kansasa, USA, under which the two educational institutions would collaborate on faculty exchanges for teaching and research, short-term courses for ESU students, joint publications, seminars and workshops, and cooperation in research.

Track Record
The institute claims a 100 per cent placement record for 2014-16 with an average salary of Rs 9.24 lakh per annum. Over 218 companies across 32 sectors have visited the campus during the period and the salary has increased 9 per cent year on year. Some of the top companies that recruit from TAPMI include Microsoft, Deloitte, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Robert Bosch, IBM, Titan, Idea Cellular, Wipro, and Gartner.

TAPMI’s summer internship course, Management in Practice, gives students an opportunity to relate classroom concepts to live application in an integrated and organisational environment. They intern across functions, verticals, and horizontals and every student goes through a Continuous In-House Development Programme prior to the internship process. “Our placement records have consistently validated our claim of producing creative managers as internships to PPO conversions have significantly increased year after year,” its Website quotes.

ayushman@businessworld.in