The Hindu Business Line : SP Jain Institute sets up centre in Dubai

SP Jain is the first among the top 10 Indian business schools to launch an overseas management programme and the main purpose was to showcase the high quality of Indian management education in the West Asian market.

Abu Dhabi , Oct. 27

THE Mumbai- headquartered SP Jain Institute of Management has become the first to launch an overseas centre for business management in Dubai, which is attracting students from India as well as the Gulf countries.

Mr Nitish Jain, Managing Director of the S.P. Jain Centre of Management, established a few months ago at the Dubai Knowledge Village, told Business Line that the facility, offering a full-time one-year post-graduate diploma in management, as well as a shorter format for working executives, has generated huge interest from MNCs and major regional companies keen on recruiting its students.

Mr Jain said that SP Jain is the first among the top 10 Indian business schools to launch an overseas management programme and the main purpose was to showcase the high quality of Indian management education in the West Asian market. The courses have been tailor-made to suit the requirements of the Gulf and West Asian region with four specialisations in retailing, hospitality, wealth management and investment banking. A new short-term executive training programme series will be launched in December for corporate executives and many other programmes are on the anvil, he added.

The Dubai centre has about 100 students mainly Indian nationals , as well as student from countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia on its rolls, and is planning to recruit students of other nationalities in due course. Accommodation is provided for students, he said.

"There is a huge focus on technology in our classrooms making it one of the best-equipped business schools here. Our intention in coming to Dubai is to project our capabilities by offering a truly international campus comparable to those in the West in terms of courses and facilities," Mr Jain said.

The good infrastructure facilities provided at the Knowledge Village are an added incentive, he said.

Nearly 40 per cent of the 200 companies, which have set up base at the Dubai Knowledge Village are Indian, according to a spokesperson for the Knowledge Village.

They include educational institutions like BITS Pilani, Manipal Academy etc, as well as training providers and consultancies. Premier educational institutes from all over the world have set up base at the Knowledge Village, which opened a year ago.

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