Graduate Certificate Programme in Entrepreneurship (GCPE)

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 is it to be an entrepreneur?
• Identifying opportunities
• Move from an idea to a prototype
• Design & prototyping for MVP ( Minimum Viable Product )
• Go through the cornerstones of creating a successful business
• Evaluating the business idea using the Business Model Canvas
• 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 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.

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 INR 25,000 plus GST, payable in full at the time of admission. A sum of INR 15000 shall be given as scholarship to the participant upon successful completion of the programme, which requires a minimum of 80% attendance and presenting the final presentation. The programme fee can be paid via NEFT / RTGS / IMPS / UPI.

The fee is to be paid as below:
Registration Fee – INR 5000 + GST (18%) ( To be paid at the time of admission )
Balance Fee – INR 20000 + GST (18%) ( To be paid by November 7, 2023 )

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 Rs 900 through net banking/debit card/credit card. Note that the application processing fee is non-refundable in any case.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://www.spjimr.org/course/graduate-certificate-programme-in-entrepreneurship-gcpe/apply-now/

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://www.spjimr.org/course/graduate-certificate-programme-in-entrepreneurship-gcpe/apply-now/

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.

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