Frequently asked questions

Any undergraduate (from any stream)/ fresh graduate enrolled in educational institutions of repute, with an entrepreneurial streak and comfortable with the English language.

The programme is conducted over one month during weekends on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings in a hybrid mode.

The course curriculum includes the following modules:

• What it means to be an entrepreneur
• Identify opportunities
• Move from idea to prototype
• Design and prototype for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Understand various cornerstones for starting a successful business
• Business plan presentation

Yes, the learning outcomes of GCPE will nurture the holistic skills of a participant with an entrepreneurial mindset. These skills will help the participant excel in all professional and academic endeavours.

This programme will benefit your future career plans by fostering and nurturing entrepreneurial intent and a business creation mindset within you. The programme offers an opportunity for profile building and helps differentiate participants’ CV for better career prospects, which includes starting their own business, higher education or better employability.

Most of the undergraduate/fresh graduate students undertake additional certification courses to enhance their CV and upgrade their skills; however, the GCPE programme acts as an accelerated entrepreneurship programme which helps cultivate a wide range of essential skills for success in both entrepreneurial endeavours and academic & professional pursuits.

The teaching pedagogy for entrepreneurship education in SPJIMR is experiential learning based on concepts and frameworks relevant to the start-up ecosystem. The sessions are taken by experts from the start-up ecosystem.

A glimpse of the exercises conducted during the sessions :

No, the hybrid model allows a participant to either attend sessions on the Andheri campus or from the location of their choice. Attending sessions in Mumbai in an offline format is optional.

Post the programme; you will have an opportunity to build networks with like-minded individuals and the community of entrepreneurs associated with SPJIMR. You can look forward to upskilling opportunities to start your own business. You also have the opportunity to differentiate your CV for better career prospects, including higher education.

Key benefit participants gain from the GCPE programme is an opportunity to differentiate their CV for better career prospects which include starting their own business, higher education or better employability. GCPE helps cultivate a wide range of essential skills for success in entrepreneurial endeavours, and academic and professional pursuits.

A Certificate of Participation from India’s premier B-school would be a value add to one’s profile.

A Hackathon is a social coding event that brings interested people together to build product solutions.  However, the GCPE programme seeks to act as the catalyst in the transformation of youth by creating and nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset among them. The entrepreneurship development programme offers an opportunity for profile building, upskilling, and networking and helps differentiate participants’ CVs for better career prospects, including higher education.

The GCPE programme gives an opportunity to the participants to solve real-life problems through the lens of the startup journey. The participants will gain first-hand experience in thinking, talking and working like a startup founder along with fellow participants.

It is suggested that the participant should have completed a minimum of one semester or six months in an undergraduate college to be eligible for the GCPE programme.

The GCPE programme is a course aimed at fostering entrepreneurship that makes a difference among youth (undergraduates / fresh graduates of any discipline). This programme is specifically tailored and curated to help young, aspiring student entrepreneurs to get a head start in India’s booming start-up ecosystem, while The Start Your Business (SYB) Programme is a programme directed towards aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage start-ups and seeks to provide knowledge and skills and instil in them the right attitude, which would help them create a sustainable venture. Crafted especially for those with an entrepreneurial streak, the SYB programme is a hands-on, practical course designed to give you a head start within 4 months.

Session recordings would be available for a limited time, on a case-by-case basis, post internal approvals.

The Programme fee is ₹ 25,000 plus GST. A sum of ₹ 10,000 shall be given as a scholarship to the participant upon successful completion of the programme, which requires a minimum of 80% attendance after completing four weekends of the programme and presenting the final presentation. The programme fee can be paid via NEFT / RTGS / IMPS / UPI.

The fee is payable in full on admission as below:

• GCPE Programme Fee – ₹25,000 + GST (18%) (To be paid at the time of admission)

Participants desirous of joining the programme will need to apply online by filling in an application form followed by the payment of application processing fees of ₹ 1000 through net banking/debit card/credit card. Note that the application processing fee is non-refundable in any case. Along with the Application form attaching the following documents is mandatory.

i)  A scanned copy of the document that verifies your highest academic qualification, certifying that it is a true copy of the original document and that all the information mentioned is correct.

ii) Proof of your enrollment in college (College identity proof/fee receipt/letter from college)

Upon receipt of your application form, the admissions team would vet the application and send the confirmation mail to the applicant.The applicant will receive an intimation regarding programme fee payment details and further procedures. Upon receipt of mail, the applicant is required to pay the Programme fee and complete the admission formalities.

Apply now: https://spjimr-pgpfmb.nopaperforms.com/gcpe-application-form

Please note: The GCPE programme does not allow deferment from one batch to another under any circumstances for any reason. As it is a fast-track scholarship-based entrepreneurship programme, applicants are expected to be fully committed and participate in the enrolled batch.

We accept applications on a continuous basis; hence there are no last days for applying for the GCPE programme. We, however, advise you to apply at the earliest considering the limited seats available for the programme.

Apply now: https://spjimr-pgpfmb.nopaperforms.com/gcpe-application-form

The selection is made on the basis of information provided in the application form. We may contact you for more information if required. We seek sincere and committed participants who look for upskilling opportunities to start their own businesses.

No deviations are permitted with regards to the admission process.

The GCPE programme does not allow deferment from one batch to another under any circumstances for any reason. As it is a fast-track scholarship-based entrepreneurship programme, applicants are expected to be fully committed and participate in the enrolled batch.

In case of any queries, please write to entrepreneurship@spjimr.org