Post Graduate Diploma in Management–Online (PGDM-Online), AICTE Approved, offered by EDII, is a structured management programme for professionals seeking career advancement while continuing their work or businesses. The programme enables learners to pursue formal management education without relocation or career breaks, making it suitable for working professionals and entrepreneurs.

Built on a flexible learning model, the programme develops strategic, managerial, intrapreneurial, and corporate entrepreneurship capabilities, supports growth in existing roles, enables new enterprise creation, and strengthens family business management, empowering participants to drive innovation and create long-term value across corporate, entrepreneurial, and family-owned business environments.

Vision

• To nurture students through education supported by practicum, enabling them to create sustainable ventures and develop capable successors who ensure the continuity and growth of family-owned businesses.

Mission

• To impart entrepreneurial skills that enable students to establish, nurture, and grow enterprises while creating employment.
• To shape emerging entrepreneurs through strong functional knowledge, research, and training, preparing them to address challenges in new and growing ventures, particularly in the MSME sector.
• To facilitate the development of an academic ecosystem that actively nurtures and supports an entrepreneurial culture.

Key Features of the PGDM-Online Programme

• Four Streams to choose from Corporate Entrepreneurship, New Enterprise Creation, Family Business Management and Tech-Start-Up
• Delivered on an integrated learning management portal for easy access, anytime data availability and monitoring
• Action Learning Project such as Summer Internship & Capstone Project
• Twelve unique Functional Elective subjects for PGDM students drawn from Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Business Analytics, and IT domains.
• Campus Immersion Programme

Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs)

• PEO1 – Impart comprehensive knowledge of entrepreneurial and managerial ecosystems.
• PEO2 – Develop first-generation entrepreneurs by building skills, attitudes, and capabilities for initiating and scaling enterprises and start-ups.
• PEO3 – Enable family business successors to act as change agents for competitiveness and growth.
• PEO4 – Build sustainable social impact ventures.
• PEO5 – Nurture intrapreneurial aspirations and compatible professional capabilities.

Programme Outcomes (POs)

• PO1 – Domain Knowledge: Develop essential domain knowledge of theories, models, techniques, and practices in entrepreneurship and major business disciplines.
• PO2 – Critical Thinking: Build critical thinking by analysing situations and selecting viable solutions for problems.
• PO3 – Ethically & Socially Responsive: Impart knowledge of business ethics and social responsiveness impacting business organizations.
• PO4 – Dynamic Global Business: Evaluate opportunities and challenges of global business environment.
• PO5 – Effective Communication: Ability to communicate and work effectively in a team.
• PO6 – Enterprise Creation and Management:  Understanding   the process of establishment of new enterprise or social enterprise or managing family-owned business.

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

• PSO1 – Establish new enterprises
• PSO2 – Run and expand family businesses
• PSO3 – Create new products through start-ups and innovation
• PSO4 – Pursue higher study programs
• PSO5 – Join the corporate/Govt./social sector and other types of relevant jobs