IIT Madras’ Department of Management Studies (DoMS) is inviting applications for its Executive MBA Program, which is aimed at training mid-career working professionals to lead a modern business organization.
This two-year in-person degree program aimed at providing mid- career working professionals with functional and integrative perspective to imbibe contemporary management knowledge to lead a modern business organization. The classes will be held over alternate weekends, which will enable working professionals to attend.
19th October 2025 is the last date to apply for this program. Those interested can apply through the following link – https://doms.iitm.ac.in/admission/
The curriculum is pragmatic to help students gain knowledge through three field capstone projects. The Project work will experiential, enabling the students to take what they have learnt throughout the program and apply it to examine a specific issue.
The Mission of this program is to equip its students with deep functional and broad industrial domain knowledge, enrich them with integrated perspective of boundary spanning business decision and empower them to lead and contribute to global businesses.
Those candidates with 60% and above in Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a minimum three years of work experience after undergraduation are eligible to apply. The shortlisted candidates will go through the Selection process at the IIT Madras Campus on 8th and 9th November 2025 which comprises of a written aptitude test and a personal interview.
The Written aptitude test will be based on -Business Aptitude, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability. Results will be announced by December 2025 with the program set to commence by January 2026.
Sharing the core philosophy driving the Executive MBA program, Prof. Saji K Mathew, Head, DoMS IIT Madras, said, “There are three advantages we wanted to bring to our EMBA Students that together offer a unique value proposition to executives who want to pursue mid-career programs. This is an MBA program with the technology advantage of IIT Madras, which is vital as the role of technology is growing rapidly in business; second is that its an in-person program with classes in weekends so that working professionals can take attend with third advantage being that this program was designed with global business management in mind. The students gain an international experience, including through an immersion program. Last year, the students went to IESEG School of Management, Paris.”
Highlighting what sets it apart from similar programs at other business schools, Dr. S. Srinivasan, Associate Professor, and Executive MBA Programme Coordinator, DoMS IIT Madras, added, “This program will talk about how the current professionals can start implementing the tool they will be learning during the course of this EMBA. The students will also learn inter disciplinary areas in this course, which will add a lot of value to the working professionals. Our program is highly driven by case study approach in the classrooms. Faculty use even Ivy league and Harvard Business School cases where the students will have a scenario to learn certain challenges and best practices and how to take decisions in a given situation. They will be given a simulated environment to work on a business program.”
EMBA INTERNATIONAL IMMERSION LEARNING PROGRAM
An addition in recent years to the EMBA curriculum is the inclusion of an International Immersion Learning Program that offered the students a 10-day hands-on learning experience in one of the prestigious institutions abroad – IESEG School of Management, Paris. The core focus of the program was on Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence.
This program saw the students cover a plethora of experiences across the region of Northern France and Belgium, namely, Lille and Brussels. Classroom sessions by Professors of IESEG School were combined with field visits:
