Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy & Management - 2012-2014

The Post Graduate programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM) aims at strengthening the public policy and managerial skills of future leaders and senior managers from the civil services; and  professionals from social, infrastructure and private sectors. This two year programme helps professionals engaged in public policy and management to tackle new challenges in the context of liberalization, globalization and rapid technology change; and continuing burden of poverty, social exclusion and crisis.

The PGPPM was flagged off in 2001 from the Centre for Public Policy (CPP), a joint initiative of IIMB-UNDP-GoI, with the main aim to develop an alternate think tank through excellence in research and scholarship, and education and training.  

The programme focuses on deepening conceptual, technical and analytical skills for public policy making; developing leadership skills; understanding forces shaping the domestic and international environment for public policy; specializing in a chosen public policy field and learning from comparative study of other countries. The academic design of the PGPPM allows the participants to engage in inter-disciplinary learning, shared learning, cross learning, learning from experience, self-study and in-depth learning in the area of specialization. Furthermore, the dissertation is a key component of the programme which enables a comprehensive understanding of a chosen public policy issue.

Initially, the programme was started for officers from the All India Services and Central Services, in their mid-career. It is for officers wanting to reinvent themselves.  However, subsequently, it was extended to open candidates from private and non-government sectors such as infrastructure; telecom and communication; banking and healthcare; regulatory agencies, etc.   Considerable synergies exist among private and public sectors and we expect this to enable cross learning. Starting last year, PGPPM has added another dimension to the learning experience by opening admission to overseas participants, to make it a global programme. 

The structure of the programme is:  

• -  Term 1 and 2 (8 weeks each): Public policy and general management courses
• - Term 3 (7 weeks): Open and international participants take electives offered by the other long duration programmes at IIMB such as PGSEM and EPGP. They also undertake a project involving a government department as a case study under the guidance of a faculty member of IIMB. The Government sponsored participants undertake a core international module on Public Policy in International Comparative Perspective and write a policy paper at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA. The open and international participants also have the option of spending term 3 at Maxwell School upon the payment of the required additional fee.   
• - Term 4 and 5 (5 and 7 weeks): Electives in the areas of specialization and courses from general streams
• - Term 6: Dissertation which is continued in the second year.

Open and overseas participants have the option of completing their dissertation, by continuing from the first year, within 6 months in the second year . Overseas participants can undertake their dissertation on a public policy issue concerning their own countries and submit it from their country.

Open participants can opt for placement on submitting a defensible draft. Career counseling and placement assistance will be provided to open participants.

Government sponsored participants are expected to do their dissertations from their respective workplaces.

For further details and procedure for admissions, please email:
Admission info : [email protected]

http://www.iimb.ernet.in/pgppm