FAQs| KJSIM

• Somaiya Vidyavihar, is a grand private educational complex with a 50-acre campus in the heart of Mumbai, the financial capital of India providing opportunities and exposure for career growth.
• Awarded as the ‘Super League 2 B-School’ by Business Standard from 2016 to 2019 and Ranked 5th in Times B-School Survey 2020.
• Member of internationally recognized AACSB and is in the process of getting its accreditation.
• ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 29990:2010 certified by Bureau Veritas.
• Bloomberg Finance Lab with multiple Bloomberg terminals, offering students extremely focused and high-end knowledge programs with a high degree of practical learning and on-the-job applicability.
• Most faculty members have rich corporate exposure with most having completed doctoral thesis (Ph.D.) or pursuing one.
• Pedagogy comprises case studies, projects, assignments, presentations, guest lectures, role plays, field visits, field projects, and interactive classroom lectures.
• At K J Somaiya Institute of Management students work in tandem with faculty members and staff to carry out various functions which cater to the aspirants, the current students, and the prestigious alumni. All committees are student driven and give an opportunity to take up leadership roles which further help in networking as well as building interpersonal skills and help overall personal and professional growth.
• Students get an opportunity to learn Spanish and Mandarin languages used frequently in the corporate world.

• Ranked 1^st under the Private University by Times B-School Survey 2021
• Ranked 9^th by Education World in 2021
• Ranked 56^th by NIRF in 2021
• Ranked 56^th by NIRF in 2020
• Ranked 19^th by Business World in 2020
• Ranked 22^nd by MBAUNIVERSE.com in 2020
• Ranked 28^th by Business Today in 2020
• Placed in Super League 2 by Business Standard in 2019
• Ranked 5^th by Times B-School Survey in 2019
• Ranked 54^th by NIRF in 2019
• Ranked 22^nd by MBAUNIVERSE.com in 2019
• Ranked 11^th by Educationworld.in in 2019
• Ranked 14^th by Chronicle in 2019
• Ranked 7^th by Competition success review in 2019
• Ranked 20^th by Business World in 2019
• Ranked 25^th by Business Today in 2019

Infrastructure facilities are as follows:

• Institute is spread across two spacious, well-furnished buildings covering an area of 150,000 sq. feet. It consist of AC Classrooms, Multiple Seminar Halls, Conference Rooms, Student Discussion Rooms and Wi-Fi enabled Campus.
• Institute provides separate hostels for girls and boys, namely, MAITREYI and SANDIPANI respectively. Hostel is well equipped with facilities like internet, Laundromat, student mess, activity room and well-equipped gym.
• In terms of medical facilities, highly trained and experienced doctors are available on campus. There is a well-equipped medical room in the hostel and regular medical checkups of student are to done to assure they are mentally and physically fit.
• Somaiya Sports Academy is an integral part of the Somaiya Vidyavihar Trust and has the international standard infrastructure for sports like Athletics (all disciplines), Lawn Tennis, Basketball, Badminton, Squash, Football, Volleyball, Roller Skating, Cricket, and a fully equipped gymnasium. Students of the campus have access to all the facilities, and also have exposure to coaching in various sports. We cater to individuals who aspire to compete at a high level and provide world-class coaching for the same with internationally certified coaches in all sports.
• The computer centre is one of the best equipped IT centres geared to aid the learning process. Software package like SPSS, SAP-ERP, Rational Rose, AMOS (for structural equation modelling), and simulation games help in conducting data analysis for business and marketing research activities, analysis of case studies, preparation of summer training projects and concurrent projects.
• The fully computerized library has more than 91000 books as on September 2017, CD’s and video films.
• Housed in an area of 7,000 sq. feet, the library offers access to online data bases like EBSCO, PROQUEST, Euromonitor, Warc, CMIE PROWESS, ACE-Equity, NPTEL, CapLine, IEEE, J-Gate, Sage Research Methods, NAV India Software, EMIS World. The Institute subscribes to 150 Indian and international periodicals.
• Institute also subscribes to Harvard Business School publications. K J Somaiya Institute of Management uses cases, readings, lessons and articles from HBSP.

Infrastructure facilities are as follows:

• The Institute facilitates various sports and socio-cultural events that are planned, organised and executed by the students  thereby providing a great learning experience.
• The Social Cell "Enactus", Entrepreneurship cell "E-Cell", Innovation and entrepreneurship cell – PathFinder, immersion into NGO's management provide opportunities to develop managerial skills of students. Other than these there are various student driven committees like Placement Committee, Public Relations, Admissions Committee, Alumni Committee, Interface, Women's Development Cell, Humanist, Acumen, Force, Quantinum, Finstreet, The Gita Club, Students Activity Forum, Consultancy, Guest Lecture, Cii Yi, K J Somaiya Institute of Management Talkies, Sports Committee, etc.
• Students are motivated to undertake inter-disciplinary projects and research.
• Industry-academia interaction, guest sessions and industrial visits help students get real time information about the corporate world.
• The Institute offers a bouquet of electives to choose from.
• Students are encouraged to take part in Experiential Learning Initiatives-ANKUR.
• Foreign languages French, Mandarin and Spanish are offered in the curriculum.
• Recently management has set up Bloomberg Finance Lab with multiple Bloomberg terminals, offering students extremely focused and high end knowledge programs with a high degree of practical learning and on-the-job applicability.

Yes. Based on the values of the Somaiya Trust, the campus is totally vegetarian/non-smoking/non- alcoholic.

• Keeping in view the food and personal habits, the NRI/OCI/FN students can stay outside the campus. If required, the Institute can assist these students to get appropriate paying guest accommodation. However, all students are encouraged to stay on campus to take full advantage of facilities offered on campus and to facilitate group learning and project work.

• For all courses the medium of instruction is English.
• For those students requiring help in English language the Institute conducts booster (extra) classes in English language.