Globsyn plans residential school

Kolkata based, Globsyn Business School, will expand, by setting up a fully residential campus near Joka.

Speaking on the sidelines of the organisation's tie up with Freeman School of Business under Tulane University, Romit Dasgupta, director of Globsyn, said, "Globsyn will come up with a new residential campus near Joka. We have acquired land and is hopeful of starting construction work soon."

The new campus is slated to be spread across five acres of land and is scheduled to come onstream within the next two years.

The B school currently has two campuses at Kolkata and Ahmedabad with a total student capacity of around 800. Globsyn is also hopeful of introducing two new courses this year.

The ongoing economic downturn did not have an adverse impact on placements, even though this year, companies have recruited fewer in numbers. "Many companies like Standard Chartered Bank, HDFC, Tata Teleservices have come this time for placements, but have recruited lesser number of students, compared to last year. Around 25 more students are to yet to be placed and I think the situation is not so bleak."

Globsyn today announced the launch of a two year full term Post Graduate Programme in Management, International finance(PGPM-IF) in association with AB Freeman School of Business, Tulane University.

The course to commence from May, 2009 with a fee of Rs 5.95 lakh would have 25 seats only to maintain 'high quality standards', claimed Dasgupta. The school presently has tie ups with universities of Glasgow and Coventry.

"The course and the degree would be awarded to the sudents here at a much cheaper cost, say for $12,000 while the same degree would incur a cost of $85,000 back in US.We have found a good partner in Globsyn, since the city and the eastern region is highly underserved inspite of some brilliant students appearing from the area", informed Venkat Subramaniam, Associate Dean of Freeman Business School and professor of Finance.

Freeman Business School is also looking forward to tying up with XLRI, Jamshedpur details of which were being worked out, further informed Subramaniam.