Coimbatore-based Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management (SVPITM) is in process to get its post graduate diploma programmes recognized as equivalent to Master of Business Administration. The institute has written to the Union Ministry of Textiles and is trying to get these courses recognized as equivalent to MBA so that the students get more opportunities when they complete the programme.
The institute offers three courses – Post Graduate Diploma in Apparels, Retail Management and Textiles. Though there were issues related to approval for these courses in 2011-12 and 2012-13, these have been sorted out and the institute has received approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for these programmes. C. Rameshkumar, Director of the institute said that the institute can admit 60 students for each of these two-year courses. The current total strength is 70 and we plan to increase it to about 150 this year.
