Why Recruit at MICA

India is poised to emerge as one of the four largest economies of the world by 2020. Indeed, Indian business organizations will be playing a pivotal role in this transformation. It is time they start building the foundation of a strong and proud India. They have to focus on the challenges of cost, quality, customization, speed and knowledge. In addition, they have to develop a passion to win and a global mindset. They also have to develop world class operational efficiency and a technological edge.

A management school exists to fulfill the needs of business organizations. It must prepare students who can meet the expectations of the corporate world. The students should not only be professionally competent but also have soft skills of leadership, teamwork, creativity, negotiation and communication. Both hard and soft skills should be fuelled by deep commitment and dynamism.

At MICA, a unique trilogy of students, faculty and learning resources produces some of the best minds in the country. Consequently, our students today hold some of the top managerial positions across companies in India and abroad. MICA's students come from diverse backgrounds, which in itself help them to examine managerial issues from multiple perspectives. Some of the unique characteristics of our students include academic excellence, leadership qualities, the ability to lead change, and a deep rooted respect for culture and values. The admission process is rigorous. It begins with the Common Admission Test (CAT), which is followed by MICA Test (MICAT) and group discussions and interviews. Students are given rigorous training in different functional areas of management and exposed to the best corporate practices. Teaching methods and learning pedagogy at the MICA include lectures, case studies, seminars, group discussions, business games, role plays, simulation exercises, structured and unstructured group work, as well as field visits. The emphasis is on involving the students in learning and helping them to relate concepts and theories to business requirements. As an added advantage, the learning provided at MICA is not only restricted to the classroom. A number of MICA students take up live projects with industry, in addition to the summer internships, in order to get an insight into the realities of real-world business.

Additionally, the key essential catalyst in this process of transformation is our highly accomplished and erudite faculty. Our faculty members are involved in facilitating learning through teaching, consultancy, as well as cutting-edge research in key managerial areas. Many of them have taken up faculty assignments at MICA after 20 or 30 years of experience in senior positions with leading corporate houses in India . Several of them have relevant books and publications to their credit. As a consequence, they bring a rich combination of academic rigour as well as practical, industrial experience to the class room. For these reasons, MICA students are known to have significantly higher industrial exposure than most others.

In a nutshell, the education at MICA equips our students with the skills, knowledge, and analytical mindset required to identify and solve problems; effective communication skills to implement agreed solutions; and sufficient practical exposure to create action plans and execute these solutions. Our students imbibe creativity as integral to their way of working.