Trichy: The Indian Institute of Management Trichy (IIM-T) started its first batch of executive doctoral programme in management (EDPM) on Monday.
EDPM is the fifth programme launched at IIM-T, which is intended for senior working executives and aims to encourage knowledge-sharing, dissemination and creation. The programme includes four terms of course work with 36 credits and 360 hours of teaching. A total of 11 candidates have been selected out of over a hundred applicants.
“The programme is designed in such a way that these executives will become established scholars in the corporate, government and academia field,” said Sujeet Kumar Sharma, chairperson, a doctoral programme in management and research.
Inaugurating the EDPM programme at a virtual event, Sandhya Shekar, former founding CEO, IIT Madras Research Park, said that such programmes strengthen the relationship between academic institutions and industry. tnn
