Executive MBA from SP Jain Vs Executive MBA from XLRI

Executive MBA programmes are aimed at honing the leadership skills of the students and providing them knowledge to help them make progressive decisions in an organisation. Shiksha compares the E-MBA programmes offered by SP Jain School of Global Management and Xavier School of Management (XLRI) based on the course structure, fee and placement opportunities.

Executive MBA programmes are offered by some of the top B-schools across the country to hone the leadership skills of a student, build conceptual clarity and provide them knowledge to achieve a larger good for the organisation/s they will be working with in the future. This programme is best-suited for the ones seeking a career growth into leadership roles. However, there are many management institutes in India offering this course, Shiksha compares two of the leading colleges, Mumbai-based SP Jain School of Global Management and Jamshedpur-based Xavier School of Management (XLRI) based on the course structure, fee and placement opportunities.

Executive MBA at XLRI

XLRI is one of the leading and oldest management schools that was established in 1949. It stays consistently among the top five business schools in the country and is acknowledged as the institution offering the best HR course in Asia Pacific.

Program pedagogy: The objective of the Executive MBA at XLRI is to offer the opportunity for the participants to earn a professional degree in management when they are still working with an organisation. XLRI offers an Executive Diploma in Human Resource Management for working executives, a programme which was started in 2005. The ultimate aim of the program is to offer an opportunity to candidates to study and earn an executive diploma in human resource management without getting their career interrupted. There is 50 days of intensive learning at the XLRI campus in five visits. The course is project-based and includes lecture series, group work, lecture series, assignment, and dissertation.

The duration of the course is about 16 months, term-1 to term-5 are for contact classes and term-6 is for dissertation. Each of this term consists of 12 sessions of 90 minutes each. The program incorporates a dissertation and will be initiated in the fourth term and gets completed by the end of the sixth term.

Eligibility: The ideal candidate should possess a Bachelor’s degree from a recognised university in any discipline and have five years of full-time post-degree experience at managerial positions. The candidates who satisfy this eligibility criteria will be shortlisted and called for interview either personally or over skype. The final selection of the candidates will be based on their performance in the interview.

Program fees: The programme for 2019 is expected to start in November. The fee for this course will be Rs 4.1 lakh excluding service tax. Travel, boarding and lodging expenses are all to be borne by the students.

Executive MBA from SP Jain

The Executive MBA at SP Jain is a fully online part-time MBA that is designed for middle and upper-level professionals, who wish to home their leadership and business skills. The course material will be delivered online with the help of the SP Jain’s innovative and engaged learning online technology. The candidates will graduate with an Australian degree at the end of the course.

Core courses offered: The Executive online MBA program at SPJain School of Global Management is delivered in three phases

• Essentials of management
• Practice of management
• Cross-functional management

The program features 17 core courses for a more specialised learning experience. There is also a comprehensive range of elective courses to target the increasing demands of management education. The academic learning session culminates with a research project. There are four different specialisations offered for the EMBA students, namely

• Marketing
• Finance
• Operations
• General management

Eligibility: The applicant must possess a valid university graduate degree to apply for executive MBA. They should have a minimum of five years of full-time work experience before applying for the program

Application and evaluation: The candidate has to apply online and need not pay any application cost. The candidates will be shortlisted based on the details given in the application. The shortlisted applicants have to go through a thorough evaluation process. The evaluation consists of aptitude tests, essay and personal interview. The cost of this evaluation process is S50.

Admission: After a thorough evaluation process, suitable candidates will be entitled to admission and the same will be communicated to them by email. The applicant has to confirm their acceptance of the offer and register for the program before the specified date in the letter.

Program fees: The total fee for the program is Rs 15.20 lakh. Merit-based scholarships will be awarded for the candidates based on their academic performance, financial background, professional experience, leadership and their problem-solving skills.

Comparative study of Executive MBA in SP Jain School of Global Management Vs XLRI

Attributes	SP Jain	XLRI
Name of the course	Executive MBA degree in essentials of management	executive Diploma in Human resource management
Course Duration Full time/residential	18 months	16 months
The medium of the course	Online course in India. On-campus Executive MBA is available in Dubai, Mumbai and Singapore campuses.	Online course with contact classes
Eligibility criteria	Valid university graduate degree to apply for executive MBA. They should have a minimum of five years of full-time work experience	Bachelor’s degree from a recognised university in any discipline and have five years of full time post degree experience in managerial positions
Tuition fee	Rs 15.20 lakh	Rs 4.1 lakh plus service taxes
Qualifying exams/criteria	Selection based on aptitude tests, essay and personal interview	The final selection of the candidates will be based on their performance in the interview
Placement support	yes	yes

The ultimate aim of the Executive MBA program is to recognise the leaders within the candidate and hone their skills and knowledge to help them make winning decisions in the organization. Both these institutes are the best places to learn EMBA and offer excellent placement opportunities with fat paychecks guaranteed. Both these institutions offer online teaching and learning experience with few contact classes and thus the candidates are able to acquire their new skill and degree without actually compromising their work and income. They are able to find themselves in higher positions in the same company or other organisations, upon completion of the course, where the real benefit of executive MBA lies.

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