AJNIFM Reviews on Placements, Faculty and Facilities

First of all NIFM was the India's best business school. The facilities they provided me in the span of 2 years was nowhere to found in other business schools. Majority of the alumnis who passed out from here are having better jobs and lifestyle.

Just want to say if you are really looking for a course which gives you dedicated knowledge of finance then I think National institute of financial management is the best.

Considering the experience of the participants, the course has been designed for learning and upgradation of knowledge and skills nationally as well as internationally. The Course curriculum also includes one week foreign exposure to a neighbouring country. The international attachment of the participants of this group was organised at ‘Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia’.

Evaluation is done on the basis of performance in Continuous Assessment and Term End Examinations(as per the extant examination rules). students are evaluated on the basis of the credits they have achieved by giving many test under the programme.

"The participants are required to do project work in the third term. The project work is equal to 2 papers i.e six credits. The project work is evaluated by (i) the Project Guide (ii) Project Evaluator and (iii) Project Presentation and/or vivavoce having 25%, 25% and 50% weightage respectively.The final grading of an individual is based on his/her performance in each paper and the project work. The minimum requirement for award of Diploma Certificate is 50% marks in each paper."

During the sixth trimester of the Programme, each participant is required to undertake a research project. the college emphasis on the trainning of the student on a practical ground too. A research problem of contemporary relevance (theoretical / action oriented) is identified by the participants in consultation with NIFM faculty and / or senior level officers of their respective Department / organization. However, the final decision on the project work is taken by NIFM. The timing and duration of the project work is 16 weeks as per the curriculum. NIFM faculty guides the participants in research, analysis, preparation and completion of the project. The participants are expected to remain in regular touch with their faculty guides for timely completion of the project work. The project work is required to be completed and submitted before completion of the programme.

The participants are taken, subject to necessary approvals from Government of India, for a two week international attachment in which an intensive coverage of international developmental perspective in critical areas of governance, financial management etc. is provided. During the international attachment, the participants are exposed to (a) the best practices of other economies/societies (b) problems and challenges facing other countries, and (c) feasible solutions that the other institutions come out for such problems. The international attachment of PGDM (FM) participants were organized at University of California Riverside, California, USA. The participants were exposed to the best international practices in governance and financial management. this is an excellent opportunity to explore and tarin themselves.

My entrance exam was held in the month of December. i appeared for CAT and MAT and secured a percentile of 88 and 85 respectively.

The uniqueness of the programme lies in its extensive use of market professionals as resource persons for the programme. Apart from sound grounding in academic concepts pertaining to the capital markets, the participants gets a chance to interact with senior regulatory officials, executives of exchanges, leading merchant bankers and foreign institutional investors.

Skill development sessions are imparted to students which involve extensive training through market simulation web based software from NISM i.e., SMART Lab, visit to brokers offices, stock exchanges and internship. this helps the students to work practically on the knowledge they have taken in.