Confused between IIM C vs FMS.
I've converted everything from IIM CLIKS and FMS. Waiting for IIM Mumbai still.
Looking at IIM C vs FMS and it's kinda difficult for me.
I'm from Noida, so FMS is cheap and convenient/comfortable. IIMC competes in the MBA experience and higher placement stats.
What I'm looking for from an MBA (and what it leads me to) are the following:
- Learning, Strategy, Finance and management as a whole. I'd like to enjoy my learning experience to the max, I didn't have a long term MBA dream growing up I just got interested in learning about business by watching case studies on YouTube and thought that would be fun to do since I like to read and write a lot.
- Internal strategy role in industry, ideally. Consulting or GenMan works too. I'd like to build strategic capability and have good WLB to pursue other things.
- Be a part of innovation ecosystem, I'm not as interested in the prestige corporate climb, I'd like to make good money but I'm not looking to make it all through a corporate climb, I'd like build credibility and move into the venture ecosystem asap.
- Global exposure, I'd like to work across geographies if possible, I believe I'd need to build some SME for that. I'm leaning towards Healthcare and Tech. I have a background in Medical Engineering from a top 10 IIT with ML projects and research in healthcare tech. No work ex tho.
Additional:
- I don't need a loan to pay for my MBA so it's not a worry but obviously no one wants to waste hard earned money. I can go medium-risk at least since I won't have to worry about paying an EMI or maximising ROI out of IIM.
- I'm not too keen on "campus life" but if learning quality is better I'm willing to accept it.
- Currently living in Noida has allowed me to attend expos, conferences in many of the growing business domains. eg: urban infratech, ai, medical device production etc I wonder if I'd lose that exposure if I go to Calcutta or would the corporate exposure within college makeup for that?
- I'm also wondering how many healthcare/healthtech or life science consulting companies visit each campus, I see that there are a huge number of those in IIMA.
- I'm also a fresher with no ECs or PoRs so I'm scared I'd be unable to compete in IIM C which has a lot more experienced folks.
P.S: I know a lot of this is delusion, and I could probably just get trapped into the generalist role rat race that MBA tends to be but I'm just looking to get perspective on what more experienced people have to say. Especially any who are managed to do similar things.
u/No-Town-121 — 7 days ago