PGDM refers to the SOIL’s fulltime two year Post Graduate Diploma in Management for candidates with 0-36 months of work experience.
The course curriculum integrates Management with Design Thinking and Liberal Arts. This is called as Business Design where students focus on solving business problems with a design thinking mindset.
The business design curriculum helps students in developing their creative business problem solving skills.
The course curriculum integrates Management with Design Thinking and Liberal Arts. This is called as Business Design where students focus on solving business problems with a design thinking mindset.
The business design curriculum helps students in developing their creative business problem solving skills.
Yes. The course is officially approved by the AICTE committee. You can view the letter of approval by clicking here.
You can find the fee here.
Yes, students can avail loans at competitive terms from leading Education loan providers such as Axis Bank, HDFC Credila, Avansa, Yes Bank, Bank of Baroda & IDFC First Bank.
Yes. Applicants are encouraged to get themselves sponsored by their employers.
School of Business Design is committed to ensuring that its unique 2 Year program is available for the most committed and high potential Business Design Leaders of tomorrow. It ensures that every candidate who is selected is able to attend the program irrespective of their socio-economic background. In order to achieve this, it has allocated generous scholarships:
For more details about scholarship, please click here
Yes. Applicants are encouraged to get themselves sponsored by their employers.
Freshers and candidates with less than 36 months of work-experience by 30th June 2025 ONLY are eligible to apply.
Yes. You can reapply provided your GMAT/CAT/XAT/MAT/CMAT/NMAT* score is still valid.
*NMAT score will also be considered, subject to the submission of an AICTE-approved all-India test score, such as GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT/MAT/ATMA. The best among all the scores will be considered.
In case you do not have a better entrance exam score to apply with or if there is no significant change in your application form, you are advised not to reapply.
Candidates in the final year of Graduation can apply provided they have the proof of graduation and marksheet by 30th June 2025.
Internship or part time work experience is not considered. Only full time work experience is considered.
Yes, provided the experience is full-time experience.
All applicants are required to appear for GMAT / CAT / XAT/ MAT/ CMAT/ ATMA/ NMAT* before applying to SOIL’s 2 Year PGDM.
*NMAT score will also be considered, subject to the submission of an AICTE-approved all-India test score, such as GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT/MAT/ATMA. The best among all the scores will be considered.
The GMAT is the Graduate Management Admission Test conducted by Graduate Management Admission Council and is a globally recognized test for admission to business schools. For more information on GMAT please visit their official web site http://www.mba.com/india/the-gmat-exam/about-the-gmat-exam.aspx.
CAT is the Common Admissions Test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management for admissions to their Post Graduate Program. For More information please visit – https://iimcat.ac.in.
GMAT scores taken on or after 1st Jan 2022 will be considered for admission.
Candidates applying on the basis of their CAT score must note that only the scores for CAT-2024 will be accepted.
Candidates applying on the basis of their XAT/ CMAT score must note that only the scores for XAT-2025/ CMAT-2025 will be accepted.
There is no minimum score to apply. We consider the complete profile including academic performance and relevant work experience.
We do not have sectional cut offs for CAT/GMAT/XAT/CMAT.
No. The CAT/GMAT/XAT/CMAT score cannot be waived under any circumstances. It is a mandatory requirement by AICTE.
A TOEFL/IELTS score is required only for non-Indian students who did not have ENGLISH as the primary language of instruction during their undergraduate studies.
SOIL gives importance to the overall performance of an individual rather than excellence in a single field.We look at the candidate’s past academic records, work experience, recommendations and essays.
In addition, performance in GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT and during the Design Thinking Workshop and the Personal Interview are considered while evaluating applicants.
The Design Thinking (DT) Workshop is a mandatory process for students to undergo as part of their admissions process. The DT workshop is a hands-on, activity-based session built around the Design Thinking process.The aim of the DT workshop is to find students who are extremely good and efficient at real time working environments rather than identifying students solely on the basis of their past academic performances and entrance exam scores.
It is usually around 90 minutes.
Yes. You can apply online through our Application Portal.
Applicants have to provide the details/official e-mail id’s of the recommenders while filling the application form. The recommendation letters will be collected from the final selected candidates’ recommenders in an online format at a later date.
Students from other streams can also apply for the course. The candidate should hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognized university.
No. You can complete the online application in multiple sessions. The changes will have to be saved every time the application is updated.
No it is not required.
It is at your discretion – However, if more than one score is reported, we will consider your best score for the admissions process.
No.
Details of the interviews and final admissions are available at “Key Dates” section of the admissions process page.
Details of the interviews and final admissions are available at “Key Dates” section of the admissions page. The venue in each center will be intimated to you through e-mail.
The interview result will be announced after 2 weeks from the personal interview date.
The course usually starts in July.
Students have to get in touch with the admissions team to solve their queries. Usually the school relaxes time for students to resolve their issues.
Our refund policy is as per AICTE norms.
No. We do not have deferred admissions for this cycle.
Yes. We follow the AICTE criteria in this. You can know more about the score cut offs in our admissions process page.
Yes.
SOIL has a dedicated Career Development Academy team to help students in placements.
The average salary offered to last year Batch (2022-24) was 10.3 LPA where in the highest Placement was 27 LPA. For more Details please Click here.
Summer internship is a mandatory requirement wherein students work on a real time project in a company. Summer Internships will allow you to apply the skills and lessons learned in a classroom in the real world of business. The summer internships lasts for 2 months, and the placements process happens during Year 2 of the program.
For the internship report, please visit here
The campus is located in Manesar, Gurgaon.
Yes
The hostels are located within 2 kms from the campus.
The college operate a bus for student’s travel from these two locations.
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We prefer professional recommendations because they are more relevant in terms of judging your professional capabilities. However, we also accept academic recommendations if it is from very senior faculty from your college.
No. The recommendation can be by any professor who has taught or guided you in your graduate program.
Yes. The admission form will not accept public domain email addresses such as gmail, yahoo etc.
The recommenders will be emailed a username and password that they can use to login to our website in order to complete the recommendation process.
Yes.
Yes.