SCMS Cochin School of Business, formerly School of Communication and Management Studies, is a management institute located at

Kochi, India Kochi ( , ), formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernakul ...

. The institute is located about from

Ernakulam Ernakulam () is the central business district of the city of Kochi, Kerala, India. It is the namesake of Ernakulam district. The eastern part of Kochi city is mainly known as Ernakulam, while the western part of it after the Venduruthy Bridge ...

railway station. The school was established in 1976 by G. P. C. Nayar, under the trust Prathap Foundation for Education and Training. It is part of the SCMS Group of educational institutions. SCMS PGDM is very famous in south India. It is rated as the best business school in Kerala after IIM-K for many years. The school provides PGDM with electives in marketing, finance, retail, human resources, banking and insurance, and system and operations. SCMS is accredited by the

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and by the

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since 2003.

Publications

Since 2004, the school publishes a quarterly

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, the ''SCMS Journal of Indian Management'', focused on

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for ...

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

, and

accountancy Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys ...

. The

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is G.P.C. Nayar, SCMS Group's founder and chairman. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and EBSCO and

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Leadership

The founder and chairman of the SCMS Group is G. P. C. Nayar, an entrepreneur and president of the Federation of Private Self Financing Professional Institutions in India for many years.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:SCMS Cochin School of Business Private schools in Kochi High schools and secondary schools in Kerala