Jamshedpur, 28 December 2020: XLRI – Xavier School of Management is a private business school – has announced Admission to Fellow Program in Management (FPM) 2021, a doctoral programme. Research programme is offered in 8 Management& Economics related subjects. Financial Assistance in the form of Monthly Fellowships is available. Further, no fees such as admission & tuition will be charged.
The FPM is a four years of residential proggrame.
Research Areas: Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Marketing, Production, Operations& Decision Sciences, Organizational Behavior, Personnel Management & Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management, and Strategic Management.
Fellowship: Fellow students are awarded a fellowship of Rs. 25,000/- per month during 1st and 2nd year and Rs. 30,000/- per month for the next two years, and no fees (admission, tuition, course material, computer, or library) will be charged. Fellowship will be paid only to the fulltime residential students for a maximum period of four years. From third year, a student can work as a ‘Research and Teaching Assistant’ (RTA), for which Rs.30,000/- per course will be paid extra.
A fellow student is entitled to a contingency grant of Rs. 25, 000/- per annum for four years and a grant of Rs. 20,000/- for Data Collection during third year.
Key Dates: Last Date for submission of online application is 15 January 2021.
Eligibility & Selection Procedure:
Applicants for FPM may choose ONE of the following options:
Option – 1 (XAT 2021)
Candidates with Post Graduation from Universities (MBA/Master’s degree in any discipline India/Abroad) and Centres of Higher Learning with atleast 55% marks (50% for SC/ST candidates) with the Bachelors degree/ equivalent qualification with at least 60% marks (55% for SC/ST candidates) obtained after a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary education(10+2) or equivalent
OR
Five years/four years Integrated Masters Degree programme in any discipline, with atleast 55% marks (50% for SC/ST candidates), obtained after completing higher secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent
OR
BE/B.Tech degree or its equivalent with at least 60% marks (50%for SC/ST candidates) with 2 years of relevant work experience
OR
A professional qualification like CA, ICWA or CS with atleast 55% marks (50% for SC/ST candidates).
May choose to appear in the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2021 to be conducted all over India on Sunday January 03, 2021.
Option – 2 (UGC JRF/NET; GMAT/GRE/GATE)
Candidates with any of the above qualification (as stated in Option – 1) may submit UGC JRF/NET; GMAT/GRE/GATE results/scores taken during the last two years. Such candidates will be exempted from appearing in XAT.
Option – 3 (MBA/PGDM candidates)
Candidates who have done their PGP from XLRI, any IIMs, FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, XIM Bhubaneswar, IRMA, SP Jain, School of Management of IITs, TIFR, TISS, ISI and other comparable Institutes with a CQPI of at least 6.00/8.00 or equivalent will be exempted from appearing in the XAT.
Short listed candidates will be required to appear for personal interview at XLRI Jamshedpur for final selection.
For exact eligibility criteria, how to apply and other details, candidates should refer the official website XLRI.
