Question

After my MBA Full time completion since 2012 i have worked all across on various challenging roles of Sales and Marketing Assignments that too all across various parts and geographies of India but since 2017 i worked as an Area Marketing Manager and subsequently my interest and passion towards pursuing my career towards academics statred to grow as i love to speak and interact with people based on valid logic only and also to know about new things and gaining knowledge, currently i am 34 and my wife is also a government employee and now i want to be settle at one place and pursue my dream of completing Fellowship in Management with specialization in Marketing. Currently i am based at Mumbai and looking for a reputed B-School to pursue my FPM in Management full time in Mumbai or Pune. I want to know about good B School option in Mumbai or surroundings and also about my aspiration that whether my rich plethora of practical experiences will going to help me or not. I have also qualified UGC-NET 2019.

Answer 1

As according to the research, good B-schools in Mumbai or at nearby places are these -

• SPJIMR, Mumbai

• ITM, Business school, Navi Mumbai

These Colleges are meeting the requirements of your choice so these can be taken as an option.

FPM programmes are for those people only who are keen towards sharing the knowledge and solving real-life problems related to business through their research and knowledge , so this programme is suitable for you as it will help you achieve all the aspirations that you are having . Here you will have to apply logic (as you desire) while doing your work .

And, you will be having tremendous opportunities to interact with people and share and gain knowledge by being a mentor to them .

Your practical experiences are going to be a great help for you because you can choose any topic from 'Marketing' for your thesis . This will make you to succeed with flying colours in it just because you know on what basis market actually functions and being the part of sales and marketing department , you know about demand and other related things at practical level , so your thesis will be easier for you to make and very attractive also based on true real-life experiences.

You can take the topic of public policy also just because of your knowledge of sales and marketing , as by the experience in this field, you know what is required by the customer and what is required by the firm also, in short, you know what customer and firms demand so that will help in framing best public policies .

Various other topics are also there that you can choose based on your interest .

But finally this experience in the marketing field will give you upper hand in your research work and even in interacting with people also to explain your ideas and transfer your knowledge to your subordinates.