SP JAIN IN THE NEWS

SP Jain has been featured by Gulf News for being ranked among the world’s Top 20 Best International 1-year MBAs. “Our students have the unique benefit of studying in three cities — Singapore, Sydney and Dubai. They understand how to operate in a global business environment — a skill much valued by recruiters,” says Dr Indu Niranjan (Dean, Postgraduate Programs) while talking about this achievement.

Topics: GMBA, Forbes

An article written by Dr. Nawazish Mirza titled “With VAT, Gulf banks will experience cost variations” has been published in Gulf News. “Given that VAT is on consumption, it is sometimes considered regressive in nature. However, given some of the unique characteristics of the proposed tax reforms, it is likely to be quite progressive,” says Dr. Mirza in the article.

Topics: Dubai Campus, Faculty in the News

Dr Suneel Sharma (Professor-in-charge, Big Data & Visual Analytics; Director, Virtual Reality Program – SP Jain) and Mr Srikant Rajan (Strategy & Technology Consultant) recently co-authored a paper in the magazine Analytics India, analysing the role of Machine Learning in the future of Human Resources.

Topics: Faculty in the News

Dr. Gulnara Z. Karimova (Assistant Professor, Business Communication) recently published a paper with Central Asia Business Journal Vol.8 No.1 titled “Developing Directives for Designing Responses to Negative Comments on Facebook: Case Study of SB JSC Sberbank in Kazakhstan”.

Topics: Faculty in the News

SP Jain’s Forbes ranking for the 1-year Global MBA Program has been mentioned in StudyInternational.com, a popular site that provides free, independent help and advice for international students looking to study abroad, connecting students with a global network of universities.

SP Jain’s Global MBA program has been ranked among the TOP 20 in Forbes’ 2017 ranking of the world’s Best 1-year International MBA programs – making us the only school of Indian origin to feature in this coveted ranking. This is the fifth year in a row now that SP Jain has occupied a spot in the list that includes MBA programs of highly prestigious institutions like IMD, INSEAD, IE, Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick and Imperial. You can read more about the rankings here.

Topics: Forbes, Rankings

SP Jain School of Global Management has recorded a 14% jump in average starting salaries for the Global MBA Class of 2017 during campus placements this year. From last year’s INR 16.50 lakh, starting salaries have gone up to INR 22.52 lakh, the highest offer being INR 48 lakh for the specialisation in Contemporary Marketing Management. Read the full coverage in The Hindustan Times here.

As an extension of the course “Happiness by Choice” and Project Giving, the students of SP Jain’s Dubai Campus recently expressed their care and support for refugee children across the globe through the artistic avenue of collages and letters which were sent to the children at various NGOs to. The Letters of Love Campaign aims to take this initiative across borders and wishes to gather over 1000 letters of love by reaching out to a larger community - schools, universities, and individuals, to contribute to this noble initiative.

Topics: Happiness by Choice

10 student teams from SP Jain’s PG Programs recently participated in the intra-competitive exercise of understanding retail management in the UAE using Carrefour as a case study at SP Jain’s Dubai Campus. All the student presentations were well-thought and creative in terms of industry recommendations, and marked improvements in presentation skills and showcased a great amount of quality peer to peer learning/knowledge sharing, collaboration, and discussion.

The event started with a global learning session with guest speaker Dr. Kiran Nair, observational field visits to Mirdiff City Center to gain an overview of retail management sector in the UAE, and the presentation rounds.

On 1st August 2017, the event further saw the top 5 teams in the final round, presenting their industry recommendations, from which the winners were chosen.

Topics: Postgraduate Programs