Jhilmil Garg from the Class of 2020 talks about her life as a Senior Associate Consultant at Samhita after graduating and how the ISDM experience has impacted it.
Graduates of any stream, whether working professionals or freshers, who are interested in the social development sector can apply.
You are working OR you have just completed your graduation or post-graduation.
No. However, some amount of professional or volunteering experience is recommended (the average previous work experience of ISDM students is 1.5 years to 2 years).
ISDM'S admissions process is fully online and has four stages:
- Application Submission
- Online Assessment
- Personal Interview
- Offer Roll Out
The admission for 2023-24 are closed. You can fill out the form above to register your interest for the next cohort.
ISDM offers the option of deferred payment to all its students of up to Rs. 3 lakhs, which is payable in easy, interest-free instalments. This allows students with a genuine need for financial assistance to independently fund their course.
ISDM has over 200+ placement partners in the sector and, as a result, we were able to assure dedicated placement assistance in the previous cohort.
The placement process at ISDM is student-centric, and not organisation-centric. During the placement process at ISDM, students provide our placement team with their preferred organisations and/or roles. Using this information, relevant job offers are sought and presented to them, and not the other way around. This reverse process is what makes our placements unique.
The Post graduate program in development management is one of its kind pioneer program in development management globally. It blends ideas of development with management theories, combining in-class sessions with collaborative group work and a field component.
The PGP-DM aims to develop a cadre of Management Professionals specifically for Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs) who can grapple with the complex context of social change, design interventions, and build, lead and manage organisations for sustainable social impact at scale.
As a Development Manager, you will be able to understand complex social issues and design interventions, lead, manage and build sustainable organisations with cultures and values for socially relevant teams, to create sustained and scalable impact.
- While both an MSW (Master of Social Work) course and the PGP-DM Program are designed to prepare students to work in the Social Sector, they are different in many ways:
- An MSW course is geared more towards familiarising students with how to do fieldwork and work at the grass-root level, while the PGP-DM Programme teaches students management and leadership skills required to mentor teams who work at the grassroots level.
- MSW course prepares you to work better on the ground, understand communities and issues, develop solutions and implement them. PGP-DM on the other hand teaches you to create world-class social organisations with an appropriate strategy, structure, systems, and processes. To put in place relevant networks, evaluation and a structure for monitoring progress.
- Students of PGP-DM master the ability to manage and lead a variety of Social Sector organisations and successfully take up multiple roles that are indispensable for a thriving organisation.
- Public Policy Courses examine how government policies can impact the lives of the public at large, how policy can be implemented effectively, and the factors that impact the making of policies. The PGP-DM on the other hand is designed to prepare students to work for the needs of the Social Sector.
- Public Policy is a theoretical discipline while PGP-DM is more hands-on. Students of PGP-DM get practical exposure through Rural Immersion, Professional Learning Communities, and various workshops, and go on to work in Think Tanks, Consultancies, the Government Sector or in International NGOs.