About Us

About the School

The School of Management Studies (SMS), commenced functioning from May, 1999. It offers a two-year full-time MBA Programme, a unique MBA programme in Health Care and Hospital Management, and a Ph.D. programme in Management Studies. It promotes faculty and doctoral research, consultancy, training, and outreach activities in various sectors.

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Dean’s Message

Greetings from the School of Management Studies (SMS), University of Hyderabad. The School of Management Studies has been established as a B-School at the University of Hyderabad, in 1999. The School has contributed to Management Education through its full-time, residential, MBA course in the initial years and the MBA (Health Care & Hospital Management) Program which was started in its decennial year. An MBA in Business Analytics was introduced in the year 2017. The School also started offering a two year weekend Executive MBA programme for working executives from the year 2019.

This demonstrates the fact that we at the School, understand and respond to contemporary demands placed on educational institutions. The School is committed to achieving professional excellence in imparting management education alongside the social commitment of inclusiveness and diversity.

The SMS also offers a Ph.D. programme in Management Studies. The School has completed 22 years of excellence in providing Management Education and preparing business leaders for the global marketplace. The School is acknowledged for its cutting-edge research, excellent teaching and learning activity in an intellectually stimulating environment. It promotes faculty and doctoral research, consultancy, training and outreach activities in various sectors.

The School has achieved impressive growth over the last two decades in terms of its various academic related initiatives forging partnerships at the national level as well as international collaborations in terms of student exchange, faculty research and extension activity.

The course curriculum which meets the industry requirement, speaks of the intellectual distinction of the faculty. The pedagogy provides real-time exposure and hands on training to the students to understand and analyze the business scenarios. The activities of the students are spread out in such a way that there is skill building in the conceptual, application and analytical front, in so much so that the School is accredited by leading corporate organizations for placement. Our alumni are placed in prestigious organizations as managers and in leadership positions representing all verticals and sectors.

The curriculum is designed and enriched with industry support and participation. The pedagogy is heavily interactive with a practical orientation, thus helping students in developing their competencies and realize their full potential to contribute to the industry. The industry has recognized the capability of our students by absorbing them and giving them challenging assignments both nationally and internationally.

Vision

Guiding Light – The broad Vision of the School is to continually strive to achieve excellence in management education, research, training, consultancy and outreach activities with a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral and developmental perspective.

Mission

The chosen path- To continually broaden the scope of application of management concepts to infrastructural, institutional, Environmental & Developmental services, Entrepreneurship & emerging areas like CRM, RETAILING, SCM, Business Incubation, University Industry Partnership, research, training and consultancy.

Values

To promote the development of sound conceptual and adaptable functional and strategic skills among students.
To encourage socially responsive managers of tomorrow.
To instill a sense of life long learning and self development among the students.

Core Activities

Organizing the course work including electives.

Providing relevant inputs/skills – self -awareness and growth lab, organizational skills,  summer internship, and project  work.

Encouraging  research by faculty and Ph.D. scholars.

Organizing seminars & encouraging participation in external seminars.

Collaborating with reputed national / international institutions / industry

Encouraging students to organize and participate in co-and extra-curricular activitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBoG_Ex3Lc