My parents always told me that there is no worse feeling than watching your dreams crash in front of your own eyes. This statement always made me wonder ( & pray !) what would that experience be like ! But my dreams ( or should I call it a nightmare !!) came true when I managed to secure a seat at SIES College of Management Studies.
After the initial days of the course (MMS) , you can look forward to only one more thing in life ...and that happens to be the end of the course !!!!!
Headed by a very renowned corporate leader, SIESCOMS is the most apt example of how the best ingredients do not necessarily result into a delicious dish.
An MBA course is always judged on the basis of A) Education B) Placements.C) Infrastructure D) Administration. D) Corporate Communication. Barring the third point , SIESCOMS fails miserably in the remaining departments.
Let’s start with point A) Education
After going through the the entire course ( literally !!!!), I’m finding it easier to distinguish between worse & worst ! It’s surprising (and at the same time amusing) to see people with hardly any worthwhile experience lecture you on leadership skills with such amazing confidence !
Unfortunately , Marketing at SIESCOMS begins and also ends with the 4P’s !!
Finance is just about Ratio Analysis & EVA.
In IT , you realise you keep begging for the I till the end of the course !
The less said, the better about HR !!
You start wondering there are 2 possibilities for the above mishaps :
a) There is a real dearth of Teaching Professionals in our country.
OR
b) The worst teachers have been selected with the expectation of improvement in the years to come!
Barring a few ( five to be very precise !) , the teaching quality is substandard.
B) Placements
It would be a mere understatement if I called the above process as a FARCE !
Excluding Kotak , HDFC & Edelweiss , you realise the number of companies you come across which you incidentally thought never existed earlier !
The above process( read farce) goes on & on & on.......& you keep waiting for a genuinely good company to come by !
Moreover, if you do not manage to squeeze into a company (I mean it !), you even have professors coming and telling you about your past sins having finally caught up with you.
C) Administration
The staff at SIESCOMS is the most unenergetic & unencouraging I have witnessed in my academic career. In fact , you start fondly remembering yor school & college days and realise the real meaning of the word QUALITY !
D) Infrastructure
In one word , EXCELLENT !
With the number of B-schools coming up in the next few years, it would have to be a near miracle to still find SIESCOMS figuring in the top 10 Institutes in Mumbai .
My advise to you would be AVOID even if you are desperate !!!!!