Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi


Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi is a leading business school located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1954 under the umbrella of the University of Delhi and is often cited as the best business school in India owing to its great ROI and very high placement statistics. The institute was started at the Delhi School of Economics premises under Dean A. Dasgupta of the Delhi College of Engineering.
The department of commerce of the Delhi College of Engineering now, the Delhi Technological University, was abolished and the Faculty of Management Studies was established.
The first set of professors were trained at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The institute has since then expanded on the number of management courses available.

Academics

FMS offers a full-time MBA, an executive MBA, an executive MBA in health care administration and doctoral programmes. In addition to all these programs, FMS also regularly conducts Management Development Programmes.

Admissions

The admission to the course is done on the basis of score in Common Admission Test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management. FMS earlier had its own entrance exam which was discontinued starting session 2012-14. For the Doctoral program, the maximum number of Seats is 20. The candidates are required to appear in the entrance test conducted every year in November–December. However, candidates falling under some categories are exempted from appearing in this entrance test. The MBA Executive program has an intake of 159 students, whereas MBA Executive programme has an intake of 39 students.
Recently the admission process has been modified for full time students wherein CAT weightage is 60%, while remaining is kept for past academic records, group discussions, extempore and personal interviews.

Student Life and Participation

FMS is the only business school which conducts the Management fest and Cultural & Sports fest separately. For the sports fest, FMS being a part of University of Delhi, has access to the sports facilities of other colleges of Delhi University like Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi School of Economics and Shri Ram College of Commerce.
As a Full Time MBA student at FMS, one gets an opportunity to join the Management Science Association, a completely student run body, which coordinates all these activities. The various societies that form part of MSA at FMS are:
Apart from these primary clubs, FMS has voluntary associations like Alpha Investment and Research Club which runs a mutual fund by themselves, Strategy Labs puts forward various live projects and business case studies and Oratory Club aims to improve literary and socio-cultural aspects.

International Associations

As a founding member of the Association of Management Development Institutions of South Asia, FMS has collaborations with the following institutions:
In 2005, Ministry for Human Resource Development, Govt. Of India has proposed a new chair in the name of the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, now known as Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Technology Management and Innovation to promote management of innovation. The Industrial Finance Corporation of India Chair is also one of the professional chairs instituted by industry at FMS.

Rankings

FMS Delhi was ranked 12th in Outlook India "Top Public MBA Institutions" of 2020 and 8th in Business Todays "India's best B-schools 2019".. FMS has been ranked 28th globally by CEO world magazine.

Notable alumni