DC School of Management and Technology (DCSMAT) is an Indian management institution with campuses located in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

and

Vagamon Vagamon () is an Indian hill station and a revenue village located in Peerumedu Taluk of Idukki district, and also Meenachil taluk and Kanjirappally taluk of Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India. Located in the Western Ghats ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

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. The DCSMAT group of institutions are promoted by

DC Kizhakemuri Foundation DC Kizhakemuri Foundation (DCKF), conceived in 2001 under the Travancore Cochin Legislation of 1957, is formed as a tribute to the late D. C. Kizhakemuri, founder of DC Books. The DC Kizhakemuri Foundation organises a wide range of art, educati ...

(DCKF) and

DC Books DC Books is a book publisher based in Kerala, India. It publishes books in Malayalam. DC Books DC Books is a publisher and bookseller with headquarters in Kottayam, Kerala, India. It has published over 6,500 titles, mainly literature in Malay ...

. The campus in

is affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University while the

campus is affiliated with

Kerala University University of Kerala (formerly known as University of Travancore) is a state-run public university in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India. It was established in 1937 by a promulgation of the Maharajah of Travancore, Chithira ...

. DSCMAT is a

National Assessment and Accreditation Council The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is a public autonomous body of the government of India that assesses and accredits higher education institutions (HEIs) in India. It is funded by the University Grants Commission and hea ...

(NAAC), 'A' grade accredited institution approved by

All India Council for Technical Education The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is a statutory body, and a national-level council for technical education, under the Department of Higher Education (India), Department of Higher Education. Established in November 1945 firs ...

(AICTE) and holds

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9001-2000 certification from

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History

The first campus of DCSMAT was established in 2002 in

and

campus was started in 2006. The institution incorporates a fully residential ' Gurukulam' model of education where faculty and students live and work together. The School offers platform to students to sharpen their event

management skills Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

, team building and interpersonal skills through various clubs which address the varied interests of students. DCSMAT follows the

case method The case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past. It developed during the course of the twentieth-century from its or ...

ology of teaching, as is being practiced in institutions like IIMs and

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

. In May 2008, DCSMAT Research Centre was started with an aim of attracting research guides, PhD students and Post-Doctoral fellows in management and related fields. DCSMAT is ranked one among the Top-3 private

Business schools A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, s ...

in Kerala and among the Top-23 in All India private B-Schools category by Competition Success Review 2016 Survey.

DC School of Architecture and Design

DC School of Architecture and Design
is an architecture and design institution, affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, located at the DCSMAT campus in

. It is also affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala located at DCSMAT campus in

Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the largest and ...

KINFRA Park. The Centre for Tropical

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

is headed by architect TM Cyriac of Environmental Creations, along with eminent researchers and academicians. The school's Kerala Architecture Festival in 2021, National Association for Student Architects (NASA) event in 2018 and 72-hour workshop launched in 2015 has gained immense popularity with architecture schools from across India and globally. The workshop is usually held every year in January. It is organized in partnership with NASA and is a pan-India event. Courses offered here are Bachelor of Architecture ( BArch) and Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (BA Interior Design).

Courses

DSCMAT Vagamon campus

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular ...

(

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

) * Bachelor of Architecture ( BArch) *

Bachelor of Business Administration A Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is an undergraduate degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of four years and typically 120 credits of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of busine ...

( BBA) * Bachelor of computer application (BCA) * Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (BA Interior Design)

DCSMAT Trivandrum campus

(MBA) * Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch)

Governing council

Dr. Beena George, MBA, PhD, Dean, Cameroon School of Business (University of St. Thomas, Houston) is the chairman and Dr M S Valiathan, a

cardiac The heart is a muscular organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissu ...

surgeon and former president of the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three b ...

, is the vice-chairman of the governing council. Ravi Deecee, CEO of

, is the Chief Facilitator. ''The other members are''
Balagopal C (ex IAS), Jose Dominic FCA, Murali Gopalan, Arun M Kumar, George P Varghese, Mathew J Manimala, Prof. Omchery N. N. Pillai, T T Thomas, Prof. Abraham Koshy, Prof. (Dr) P R Poduval, K X M John, Sam Santhosh, Shaffi Mather, Harikrishnan R. Nair,

Brigadier Brigadier ( ) is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore (rank), commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several t ...

M C Ashok Kumar (Retd.).

Management festivals

DCSMAT

campus organizes the annual management festival, Luminance, which is fully managed by students under the guidance of faculty members. DCSMAT Trivandrum campus also has its own management festival called Juventus, started in 2015. Juventus 2k16, in 2016, saw an active participation of

colleges A college (Latin: ''collegium'') may be a tertiary education, tertiary educational institution (sometimes awarding academic degree, degrees), part of a collegiate university, an institution offering vocational education, a further educatio ...

from across

and other

south Indian South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of ...

states. The chief guest of 2016 was

John Brittas Dr John Brittas, widely known as ''Brittas'', is an Indian parliamentarian, journalist, and managing director and chief editor of Malayalam Communications Ltd., which owns the entertainment channel Kairali TV and the news channel Kairali News. H ...

, the managing director of

Kairali TV Kairali TV is an Indian Malayalam-language general entertainment free-to-air television channel owned by PTC Network via holding company G-Next Media Pvt Ltd . It is headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram. It was launched on 17 August 2000. Hist ...

Facilities

Infrastructure

campus is a township spread across in 26 buildings with 5,00000 square feet built up area and

hostel A hostel is a form of low-cost, short-term shared sociable lodging where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed in a dormitory sleeping 4–20 people, with shared use of a lounge and usually a kitchen. Rooms can be private or shared - mixe ...

facility for 800 plus students to bring in a real campus culture.

campus is set amidst the 72 acre KINFRA Film and Video Park, Kazhakuttom which also is a shooting locale. Both the campuses incorporate state of the art ultra-modern buildings with 24 × 7 high speed Wi-Fi,

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coverage, high end computer and other labs and digital classrooms. Intellectual capital DCSMAT intellectual capital consist

Indian Institute of Management The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are Centrally Funded Business Schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of business administrati ...

(IIM) trained and

All India Management Association All India Management Association (AIMA) is the national apex body of the management profession in India. A not-for-profit, non-lobbying organisation, working closely with Industry, Government, Academia and students to further the cause of the ...

(AIMA) accredited faculty having extensive industrial exposure, with many of them being doctorates. Mentoring Student Ownership Programme (SOP) is a mentoring programme under which small group of students are assigned to a faculty for mentoring and enabling their overall development. Residential Campus

is a fully

residential college A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship ...

to encourage participatory learning in a real residential campus culture. The campus is a self-contained township, housing all recreational facilities, gymnasium,

cafeteria A cafeteria, called canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a scho ...

, coffee shop, mini

supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. Strictly speaking, a supermarket is larger and has a wider selecti ...

, bank and ATM,

amphitheater An amphitheatre ( U.S. English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ('), from ('), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and ('), meaning "place for vie ...

and medical facilities. Club Activities Participation in club activities is compulsory for DCSMAT students with a choice of 14 very active clubs. Guests DCSMAT students have an opportunity to frequently interact with renowned guests and faculty;

Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi- Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writings on the oppression of women and criticism of Islam; some of her books are banned in Bangl ...

and Gopi Kallayil being a few among them.

References

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External links

Official website of DCSMAT

Official website of DC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Business schools in Kerala Colleges affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala Architecture schools in India