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SPJIMR all set to launch program with Virginia Tech
Inauguration Ceremony held on October 14, 2004

S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) in tie-up with Virginia Tech is all set to offer a cutting global edge to students through Master's Degree in Information Technology.

The SPJIMR-VT MIT Program

SPJIMR in collaboration with Virginia Tech presents a unique program that offers high class US education in Information Technology Management in India to address specific needs of the Industry. The program leads to a Master's Degree in Information Technology given jointly by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA and SPJIMR, Mumbai.

Program Features

The program offers two tracks for

  • Professionals, working on IT Projects

  • Graduates with Engineering or Mathematics subjects having specialist Diploma in IT Solutions

The pedagogy is blended with strong technology inputs given on campus and experiential learning attained while on projects with the industry with regular support from the institute using web-based tools. The professional stream participants come to campus in four contacts of 3-weeks duration each. In this course fifteen courses are taught. Faculty from Virginia Tech would teach ten of these courses. The faculty from SPJIMR teaches five courses.

The on-campus students join the class of the professionals during contact phases. In between contacts, the Professionals carry out exercises and assignments in their respective companies, while, the on-campus students carry out exercises in institute labs and project assignments with select IT Industry Partners. The Program is jointly designed by Virginia Tech and SPJIMR ensuring perfect mix of high quality & international class technology inputs with application project assignments localized to address the specific needs of the Indian Industry. Highly qualified and experienced Teaching Assistants ably support the Participants in carrying out lab exercises, assignments and projects.

The pedagogy involves three distinct phases: -

  • Preparatory Phase - Pre-learning from prescribed material and exercises

  • Learning Phase - classroom and web-based instructions

  • Application Phase - Individual & Group Assignments and Projects in Industry

With prominent schools across seven seas joining hands, this program would be the right choice to expand your knowledge horizons.


Contributed by -
Rubin Mishra,
Public Relations,
SPJIMR, Mumbai.