Prepare To Lead India’s Hardest Work
The Post Graduate Program in Development Management (PGP-DM) prepares you to confront complex social realities and build the conviction and capability required to lead India’s social transformation
Because Doing Good
At Scale Demands More Than Good Intentions
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11 Months, On-Campus
100% Placement Support
425+ Placement Partners
75+ Global Faculty & Practitioners
India’s social challenges are complex and deeply rooted. They demand leaders prepared to work with complexity, not around it.
Yet, many enter the social sector with intent but without structured preparation to lead teams, design interventions, or work across systems. PGP-DM fills this gap. It combines development perspectives with management rigor to equip you with the skills, knowledge and empathy required to lead work with real impact at scale.
This program is for those who want to act—but only after they understand what action demands.
What Changes In You
PGP-DM is an intellectually rigorous and personally demanding journey. It transforms how you think, act and lead—grounding you in India’s lived realities, demanding honest self-examination and equipping you to design interventions that endure.
Seeing India Clearly
Engage directly with India’s development realities through field immersions, and understand how communities experience change—not as theory, but as lived experience
Transforming Self As A Leader
Examine your values, assumptions, and decision-making patterns—recognising that responsible leadership begins with self-awareness
Creating Change That Works
Learn to define problems, develop interventions, and implement them in real-world settings—building programs that are feasible, responsible and sustainable
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Learning Built From Knowing And Doing
PGP-DM is taught through a unique Bricolage model—a deliberately assembled ecosystem of faculty, practitioners and mentors bringing diverse knowledge and lived experience into the classroom. You don’t just learn about the sector; you learn from those actively shaping it.
The Bricolage Model At ISDM
Academic anchors who bring conceptual clarity, research depth and rigour across the program
Experts who teach from real-world experience, bringing field insight directly into the classroom
Leaders from nonprofits, CSR, consulting, policy, and social enterprises who offer direct exposure to sector realities
The ISDM Experience
Diverse Cohort
Campus And Spaces
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H.O.T. Conversations
The Sangam Series
Career Guidance
Clubs & Traditions
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