The Institute offers 75 courses in the PGDM programme, made up of 31 core courses, 44 elective courses and Summer Internship Program (SIP). In addition, seminar courses are offered in topics of contemporary relevance. Orientation courses are offered in specific courses according to the concerned faculty’s teaching requirements in that particular course. Orientation and core courses are common to all students.

The concept of credits is used to define the weightage of a course in the curriculum. The courses have 2 or 3 credits, depending on the coverage of topics. The seminars have one credit. 'One credit' credtit connotes 10 classroom contact hours. Thus, a two-credit course involves 20 classroom contact hours and a three-credit course involves 30 classroom contact hours.

During the second year of the programme (Terms 4, 5 and 6), students have the opportunity to customise the programme to meet their personal requirements. They can choose from more than 38 electives the 10 or so in which they wish to be assessed. With such a wide choice they may wish to focus on a particular area such as finance, marketing or human resource management, or they may decide on a fairly broad mix of topics. Particularly popular are the general management and Technology related electives, which provide the opportunity for participants to gain a better understanding of how the key elements required to run a businedd successfully are integrated. Some students use this as an opportunity to develop their ideas and complement them by taking up live projects for companies which gives them hands-on experience. In addition to the assessed electives the students can also audit (i.e. attend) other electives.

At the start of the programme, students are placed in learning teams of three or four people. These are designed by the programme director to ensure that each-team has a blend of functional knowledge and intuitive thinking. The learning team, as used at KIAMS, plays a key part in the process of management development, as distinct from the content of the programme. Students will come to realise that having the correct analysis is not necessarily enough; they must be able to convince their peers that this is so and carry others along with them.

The learning team system at KIAMS is created in order to develop these skills in a relatively risk free environment where the pay-off from working together is high but where the failure cost is not as disastrous as it may be in the real business world.

The preparation for classroom sessions is done both individually and in the learning teams and involves a substantial amount of work. The use of learning teams and the subsequent classroom discussions ensures that the extensive experience which all KIAMS participants possess is fully utilised.

The learning teams are also central to the process of personal development. The KIAMS experience is not just about learning 'content'. It is also about developing a student as an individual and as a manager, able to understand his/her own abilities and capable of motivating his/her colleagues.

The learning team approach adopted throughout the programme helps to develop teamwork, leadership and interpersonal skills.

KIAMS has a large database of the Indian corporate houses due to its long association with consultancy services and executive development programmes. Students can leverage this database for developing a network of contacts which is useful in career development and for placements.

KIAMS follows a continuous evaluation system to keep the student learning throughout the year. Feedback is provided by the faculty on a continuing basis to enable the students to monitor their own progress. Individual faculty members design their methods of evaluation which include tests, assignments, term papers, project work based reports and presentations, mid and end term exams. The evaluation may be on individual/ group basis. A five point scale grading procedure is adopted for evaluating students as given below. At the end of every term, the cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is calculated for each student