Narayana Business School, Sarkhej Bavla Road, Nr. Sanathal Cir, Sanathal, Ahmedabad,
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Post Graduate Diploma in Management -Quantitative Finance Program Structure 2023-25

Objective A Two years full-time PGDM – Quantitative Finance focusing on insights of applicative finance to build a solid financial foundation aimed at creating the next generation Quant, Financial Engineers, and Risk Management Specialists.
Duration
(In months)
24 (Full Time)
Intake 30
Eligibility The candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent examinations in any discipline with at least 60% marks or an equivalent CGPA. The candidate must have appeared for any recognized Management Entrance Examination like CMAT, CAT, MAT, XAT etc and NBSAT (NBS Aptitude Test), a national-level management entrance exam devised by Narayana Business School, which accesses the candidate’s Mathematical Aptitude, General Knowledge, Verbal Ability & Abstract Reasoning. For PGDM- Quantitative Finance: Math/Stats in class XII required. Finance, Statistics, Engineering or Economics bachelor's degree preferred.
SELECTION PROCEDURE

Students will be evaluated on the following parameters

NBSAT Score (out of 100, scale down to 40 marks) 40%
Academic Performance & Prior Work Experience  20%
Statement of Purpose - (SOP) 20%
Personal Interview  20%
Total 100%
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION English
PROGRAMME PATTERN Trimester
Fee 10,85,000 for two years (Excluding Hostel amenities) 
Assessment Each course will have a weightage of 100 marks wherein 50% will be of Continuous Evaluation Components & 50% will be of Term End Examination. 
standard of passing Maximum Grade Point (GP) is 10 corresponding to O (Outstanding). For all courses, a student is required to pass both Continuous Evaluation Components and Term End Examination separately with a minimum Grade Point of 4 corresponding to Grade PASS. Students securing less than 40% absolute marks in each head of passing will be declared FAIL.
AWARD OF DEGREE/ DIPLOMA/ CERTIFICATE Post Graduate Diploma in Management will be awarded at the end of the Trimester VI examination by taking into consideration the performance of all semester examinations after obtaining a minimum CGPA of 4 out of a maximum of 10 CGPA. 

Program Summary

TRIMESTER TOTAL CREDITS CEC TERM-END TOTAL MARKS
trimester ⅰ 26 450 400 850
trimester ⅱ 26 450 400 850
trimester ⅲ 26 450 400 850
trimester ⅳ 26 450 400 850
trimester ⅴ 26 450 400 850
trimester ⅵ 18 300 300 650
summary 148 2550 2300 4850

Course Details

trimester 1- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
1PGDMQF01 Managerial Accounting -I  3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF02 Managerial Economic -I  3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF03 Corporate Finance 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF04 Perspective management 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF05 Quantative Methods 1 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF06 Research Methodology 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF07 Effective Business Communication 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF08 Management Information system 3 50 50 100
1PGDMQF09 Spreadsheet tool for Finance 2 50 ** 50
  total credits 26 term-ends total marks 850
trimester 2- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
2PGDMQF01 Managerial Accounting -II  3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF02 Behavioural Economics   3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF03 Financial Mathematics 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF04 Legal Aspects of Business 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF05 Security Analysis 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF06 Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF07 Marketing Principles and Applications 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF08 Human Resource Management 3 50 50 100
2PGDMQF09 MATLAB 2 50 ** 50
  total credits 26 term-end TOTAL MARKS 850
trimester 3- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
3PGDMQF01 Decoding of Financial Statement  3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF02 Strategic Finance Management  3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF03 Management of Financial Institutions 3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF04 Global Economic Environment 3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF05 Taxation 3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF06 Basic Derivatives  3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF07 Financial Markets   3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF08 R Programming for Statistics 3 50 50 100
3PGDMQF09 Data Driven Decision Making 2 50 ** 50
Personal Competence and capability Building - I 3 50 50 100
  total credits 26   total marks 850
trimester 4- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
4PGDMQF01 Corporate Interface through Summer Internship  3 50 50 200
4PGDMQF02 Fixed Income Markets   3 50 50 100
4PGDMQF03 Data Warehouse and Data Mining 3 50 50 100
4PGDMQF04 International Finance and Trade 2 50 ** 50
4PGDMQF05 International Taxation 3 50 50 100
4PGDMQF06 Risk Management 3 50 50 100
4PGDMQF07 Banking and Insurance 3 50 50 100
4PGDMQF08 SAP - FICO Module 3 50 50 50
  Personal Competence and capability Building -II   ** ** 0
  total credits 26 TERM-END TOTAL MARKS 850
trimester 5- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
5PGDMQF01 Treasury Management   3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF02 Alternate Investments   3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF03 Machine Learning Using Python 3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF04 Foundation of Asset Pricing 3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF05 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance 3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF06 Mergers and Acquisitions 3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF07 Merchant Banking and Financial Services 3 50 50 100
5PGDMQF08 Data Visualisation Techniques using Tableau 3 50 50 50
5PGDMQF09 Personal Competence and capability Building -III 3 50 ** 50
  total credits 26   TOTAL MARKS 850
trimester 6- core courses
Course code Course name credit cec term end total
6PGDMQF01 Capstone Project   3 50 50 200
6PGDMQF02 Business Valuation Modelling   3 50 50 100
6PGDMQF03 Behavioural Finance 3 50 50 100
6PGDMQF04 Blockchain for Business 3 50 50 100
6PGDMQF05 Arbitrage Trading 3 50 50 100
  total credits 18   TOTAL MARKS 600