We also interact with the alumni to understand exactly what they need from us as a campus, says Prof. Kothari

In an interview with Shiksha.com, Dikshit Kothari, Assistant Professor, J S Kothari Business School, discusses the several important differentiating aspects that enable School stand out from other institutions offering similar programmes. He discusses the relevance of experimental learning, brainstorming sessions, networking, and other topics in depth.

Kothari is an MMS graduate and presently pursuing PhD from MIT. He has his expertise in Finance, Corporate Finance, Security Analysis, Portfolio Management.

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Q: What are the salient features of the teaching methodology adopted by your college? How does this differ from others?

A: Our College has adopted excellent features like

1. Experimental Learning: This method allows students to operate with specific industry area of interest

2. Movie Club: It is used with the concepts of the syllabus in which students are trained to study with a real-life example and connect the taught process of the relevant movie with the syllabus content for an effective learning

3. BrainStorming: It is used for understanding the student's creative skills based on the topics been shared.

4. Case study: Students are provided with real cases and asked to visit the places if possible to understand the actual concepts of it which play an effective role in real-time learning in each student's life.

Q: How are you preparing your students to be industry-ready?

A:

1. Connect & Network with people around you: It help students to become familiar with the people around you , we prepare them to be a strong and elaborate network which is essential for their progress.

2. Inculcate the Habit of Innovation: we train our students to think outside of the box so they could face more competition across the globe in the future.

3. Regular Read: Students must be aware about current trends in the market of multidisciplinary domains rather one domain which most of the industry looks into.

Q: What are the qualities you are looking for in student applicants? what qualities do they need to do well in your course?

A: Critical thinking and problem-solving skills: I look for Critical thinking and problem-solving skills which are more effective for any student as they will help them to crack their interview round and will be more helpful in the future.

Leadership skills: This Skills will help us to map the students properly into their expert domains.

Time Management: As each class in management is not structured so students must have a significant time commitment to follow.

Q: How do you ensure that your course curriculum is up to date and meets industry requirements?

A: We ensure the same by having an interaction with the industrial expert of the same domain and asking them queries about “what kind of development in the syllabus they expect from us”? , “how we can inherit the shortcomings of freshers students?”What are their expectation from us”?

Having a word with a TPO to understand the Technical round question which was been asked to the students where they couldn’t answer I make sure I teach them all the parameters to clear issues. Even I try to compare my syllabus with top institutes of management and even online certification programs if I feel they are a gap I try to inherit those concepts in my syllabus.

We also interact with the alumni to understand exactly what they need from us as a campus for making a smooth flow between academic and industry platforms.

Q: Is your college, receptive to innovation, technology, science & Entrepreneurship?How?Could you cite some examples of these?

A: We offer different specializations in which syllabus are been set based on innovative using current trends of technology for the same. We have an IBM Analytics Lab which help them for predictive modeling certification. We also offer certification programs in sales and presentation, MLP, Tableau as a part of their As faculty, we make sure we are always having a habitat of inheritance of research modules concepts in our subjects whatsoever we teach.