Dhruva College of Management


Dhruva College of Management is a private business school located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Its campus is situated in the suburbs of Hyderabad in the midst of the 800-acre reserve oxygen forest, which includes hostel facilities for both men and women.

History

Dhruva College of Management was established in the year 1995 and has been operational since. It initially started as a not-for profit educational institution offering two-year full-time PGDM programmes i.e. Post Graduate Diploma in Management, formerly known as Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management.

Academic programmes

Dhruva offers PGDM programmes with specializations in the areas of General Management, Business Analytics, Banking, Global Business, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Insurance, Production, Retail, Business Strategy etc. and its courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development & Government of India. The PGDM awards conferred by the institute are equivalent to MBA degrees granted by the Association of Indian Universities.
As part of the PGDM programme, candidates have to undertake a Summer Internship Project related to their specializations for a period of around 3–4 months, wherein they are supposed to work as an intern in an organisation, company or industry in India or abroad and complete the project so that they get an exposure on real-time management.
Dhruva's selection criteria involves candidates to initially clear an entrance aptitude test and subsequently qualify in group discussions & personal interviews. The recruitment process is carried out by the institute at some of the major cities in India.

Eligibility

Graduates from institutes approved by the AIU with minimum 50% marks, including final-year students can apply and candidates with minimum 50% scores from certain national and state competitive tests such as GMAT, CAT, MAT, XAT, ICET, CMAT, ATMA etc. are also eligible to apply. The institute offers scholarships on tuition fees to candidates based on merit in certain competitive tests such as ICET, CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and CMAT.