SP Jain school of management launches Mumbai campus

The internationally ranked SP Jain School of Global Management, with campuses in Dubai, Singapore and Sydney, launched its fourth campus in Lower Parel, Mumbai, on Friday, an official said.

Nitish Jain, president of SPJSGM, said that these were exciting times for India with rising growth and aspirations and just right for a young, innovative and daring School that is willing to challenge old and redundant teaching methods.

"Teaching has to give way to learning and learning needs to be experiential. Unless this happens, our students will never be competition-ready," said Jain.

"Students have to understand that and our school teaches them the survival skills that enable them to see disruption as an opportunity and not as a daunting and unexpected challenge," said Jain.

Former diplomat and author, Amit Dasgupta, who will head the Mumbai campus, said teaching methodology, like products, have to constantly adapt and evolve or else they will perish.

"The school symbolizes change because it challenges perceptions of how things ought to be. A campus in the heart of the business district is in itself an example of how the school is different and not divorced from the external environment," he added.

The campus would offer BBA and EMBA programmes in addition to open, customized Executive Education and certificate programmes.

The school is starting a Distinguished Speakers series. Dr. Tim Jones, an internationally renowned futurist, would be delivering a series of talks from June 5 to June 7.

On June 11, Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling would speak on the India-Australia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement [CECA], with specific emphasis on the services sector, in particular education and skilling.

The school was ranked among the Top 20 MBA programmes in the world in the Forbes Best Business Schools (International) Rankings 2013, 11th in the world in the 'Best International 1 year MBA programmes' category and 19th in the 'Best International MBA programmes' category. It is the youngest business school to be ranked by the Financial Times for 2 years in a row (2011 and 2012).