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CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
NMIMS ANALYTICS & DATA SCIENCE
Deemed to be u NIVER.SI TY

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Vice Chancellor's Message

Our m1ss1on at NMIMS, is to provide high quality trained human resource who are
endowed with inquisitive minds and possesses an element of persistence to change
their own lives and those of others, and contribute to make India a knowledge, a
superpower and the world a better place to live. As a business school, NMIMS has always remained
among the top 10 business schools in India since 1995, mainly on account of strong and stable
faculty, excellence in teaching continues to be our motto. Our faculty is encouraged to excel not
only in teaching but also in other areas like research, consultancy, development and publication.

With this newly introduced course focusing on Business Analytics, NMIMS now aims on
bridging the gap and creating individuals with a balanced skillset of technology and management.
We are confident that Centre of Excellence will add new dimensions and take the excellent
relationship we have with the industry to the next level.

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 Pro Vice Chancellor's Message

With phenomenal growth of the Indian economy and the entry of multinationals,
the Indian commercial enterprise today is looking for people to take up responsibilities at
different levels in varied fields. Consequently, there is need in the corporate world of trained
manpower in the respective fields at different levels.

SVKM's NMIMS Deemed to be University has always been in the forefront to

cater to the needs of the Society and in turn the corporates. Taking into consideration the
need of the industry, the University started various schools with different specializations at
the under-graduate and post-graduate levels. The students at all levels are not only given
theoretical academic inputs but they are also given industry exposure. This has made
SVKM's NMIMS Deemed to be University a leading University at national level. Taking
into consideration expanded horizons and the concept of Global Village, the University
has tie-ups with many prestigious universities in the world which gives global exposure to
the students and enables graduating students from the University to compete globally.

It is our endeavour to create successful leaders for tomorrow without losing sight of
the Indian culture.

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Director's Desk

NMIMS Deemed to be University, has a long-cherished goal of achieving

excellence in Analytics & Data Science and is keen on not just fostering growth in ability to read,
analyse and argue with data but also work, study, practice, have conversation with it. This will
form the first step for building an analytics culture within the institution, faculties and students.

In our endeavour to make our students successful in the field of Analytics, the PGDM
Business Analytics program is carefully designed with insights and guidance from the academic and
industry professionals to cover essentials of art and science in applying analytics to business. It aims at
providing managerial skills with analytical thinking in solving real-world business
problems through practical training on analytical tools, methodologies and technologies.
T he curriculum will expose the students to all the facets of Management, Marketing, Finance,
Economics, Technology and Organization Behaviour with strong skills in Business Analytics.

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COURSE CHARTER
VISION
To improve and disseminate knowledge in data-driven decision making.

MISSION
Our endeavor is to attain excellence in data analytics through focus
multidisciplinary research and training. To work in collaboration with
industry and academic insitutions to help them generate knowledge
from data and create business value.

PROJECTS

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 The Mission of the Corporate Relations
committee is to work in unison with other
initiatives at NMIMS and promote the
Business Analytics Programme.

Their Primary Role involves managing all the

Social Media coverage and major events like
the BADM Championship.

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 A very bright batch of students with diverse educational and industry
background. Well conceptualized courses like these will go a long way in bridging
the analytics skill gap that we are facing.

- Mr. Prakash Sah, Managaing Partner & Head, Bl & Analytics, Manufacturing,
TCS

"When the questions don't stop ! !

A weekend well spent with the inquisitive batch at NMIMS Business
Analytics and Data Science !"

- Mr. Rahul Bathija, Sr. Brand Manager, Chocolates & Confectionery

at Nestle

Amazing experience interacting with these young minds. Lot of enthusiasm and
inquisitive minds being nurtured at CoE.

- Mr. Gaurav Gala, Head of Football content, IMG Reliance Pvt. Ltd.

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 Batch Highlights Gender Ratio

Class Size Freshers Male Students : 54%

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Female Students : 46%

Our students come from different parts of the country and have
gone through a grueling process of admission of NMAT by GMAC
and have cleared all the selection rounds to be a part of this
environment wherein they can learn and groom themselves to be
some of the best professionals in the analytics industry.

They are a bunch of multi-faceted,dynamic and enthusiastic

people who believe in themselves and are ready to face challenges
and foster a good working environment. The average age group of
the batch is 24 years.

Over the past months, they have proved themselves through the
various activities and workshops and their day to day cycle at
campus that they are responsible young individuals and have verywell
adapted to the demands of the course, be it in academics
or otherwise.

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Almost 70% of our batch are experienced folks who have some Industry exposure as
full time employees across various Industries like BFSI, Telecom and IT.

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Freshers 0-1 Years 1-2 Years 2-3 Years 3 Years

Above
Work Experience

More than half of the batch comes from an engineering field from reputed institutes
while around 30% of them are from commerce and related fields.

Others

B.Sc

BBA
Academic
Background B.com

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B.Tech 48%
0 10 20 30 40 50

Percentage of students

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 NMIMS CoE, follows a rolling process for both Summer Internship and Final Placements.
NMIMS Mumbai has excellent infrastructure and facilities to conduct recruitment process
smoothly without a hitch.

Summer Internship programme SIP:

The Summer Internship, an integral, compulsory part of the academic curriculum, is
carried out before the start of the second year of the PGDM Business Analytics
programme. SIP amplifies the student's perspective by providing an exposure to real life
organizational and management practices under the expert guidance of industry
mentors. The duration of the Summer Internship is 8 weeks starting from the first week
of April 2020.

Final Placements:
Final Placements for the graduating batch commence in the 5th Trimester of their course.
This helps students to acquire all the necessary skills required to face corporate
challenges. Students are available from April 2021 to join the organization.

PLACEMENT CALENDAR

Placement Activities Summer Placements Final Placements

Process commencement November 2019 September 2020
Pre-Placement Talks November 2019 onwards September 2020 onwards
Interview November 2019 onwards September 2020 onwards

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