ISDM is a residential, immersive learning environment. The year you spend here is built as much around the conversations in corridors, the late-night debates, and the friendships across cohorts as it is around the coursework.
The PGP-DM is intentionally residential. You live and learn alongside a cohort of peers drawn from across India: from grassroots organisers and corporate professionals to fresh graduates and second-career switchers. People arrive with different politics, languages and life stories, and the year is structured to put those differences in conversation. That density of perspective is the curriculum behind the curriculum.
~100 students per cohort
~50% women, year on year
9 cohorts and growing
Students from across India
Dialogue sits at the heart of Development Management. ISDM has built distinct spaces for the conversations the work demands.
A monthly space where students, faculty, and leadership sit in the same room to surface what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change. This is where ISDM's commitment to a low-hierarchy culture gets tested in real time.
A monthly space where students, faculty, and leadership sit in the same room to surface what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change. This is where ISDM's commitment to a low-hierarchy culture gets tested in real time.
A monthly space where students, faculty, and leadership sit in the same room to surface what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change. This is where ISDM's commitment to a low-hierarchy culture gets tested in real time.
Students shape much of life at ISDM themselves, running clubs, carrying traditions forward, and prototyping ideas with peers.
Ideas meet lived experience.
Students run their own clubs, from sports, music, and photography to governance, gender, and grassroots organising. Each cohort adds new traditions and passes them on.
Students run their own clubs, from sports, music, and photography to governance, gender, and grassroots organising. Each cohort adds new traditions and passes them on.
Where ideas are tested.
At Synergy, students stress-test their ideas, from ventures and campaigns to tools and research, in front of peers, mentors, and practitioners. Some become alumni-led ventures, others sharpen into better questions.
At Synergy, students stress-test their ideas, from ventures and campaigns to tools and research, in front of peers, mentors, and practitioners. Some become alumni-led ventures, others sharpen into better questions.
ISDM's home in Noida has shaped nine cohorts of Development Management leaders. The campus is built for thinking together — open classrooms, shared study spaces, a library, residences, and informal nooks to read, write, or think alone.
ISDM's campus is being remodelled for the next decade of what the institution is becoming: new buildings, expanded spaces, and facilities designed to match the scale of its ambition. The same campus that shaped nine cohorts is being reimagined as a long-term home for Development Management in India.
Architectural render of upcoming campus buildings
