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School of Management, NIT Warangal
The School of Management, NIT Warangal, also known as SOM, NIT Warangal is a business school under the NIT Warangal in Warangal, India.

History
The National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT Warangal or NITW) is a public technical university located in Warangal, India. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

In 2000, National Institute of Technology, Warangal established Center for Management Studies. Later, renamed as School of Management (SOM). SOM offers Masters and doctoral programs and promotes faculty and doctoral research, training, consultancy, and outreach activities in various areas. The Master's program is a two-year full-time residential program. The admission to Masters program, Masters in Business Administration - MBA, is on the basis of CAT/MAT scores, done once every year at the beginning of the academic year. In 2009, School of Management started Doctor of Philosophy, a doctoral program. The doctoral program is designed to provide both depth and breadth to doctoral participants. The doctoral program is offered in various areas of management. School of Management is placed in the precincts of NITW and enjoys the state-of-the-art infrastructure of NITW, these include a strong IT-backbone, sports complex, hostels, and so forth.

Programs
The department offers MBA and PhD degrees.

MBA
The MBA programme is a two-year programme, structured with courses spread over seven quarters and about five to six courses per quarter. The first year contains core courses that are compulsory for all students, whereas the second year mostly has electives and a few core courses. In the summer break between the first and second year, students work on a summer project with a company.

Apart from regular academics, course activities include taking courses on audit, field visits, participating in management workshops, organizing professional events, and working on live business projects. The programme includes three core courses on Industrial and Business Domains spread over the last three quarters.

Students of the programme can opt for auditing courses (i.e. taking classes but not assignments or exams and not receiving credits) from any of the elective courses offered by the Department of Management Studies or from the more than 300 courses offered by the other 14 departments in the institute.

Co-curricular courses offered at the department include business communication and presentation skills, negotiation skills, teamwork and conflict resolution skills, time management, and business etiquette The batch size is in the range of 50 to 60 students, picked from over 250,000 applicants who take up the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management and Management Aptitude Test (MAT) followed by a Group Task/Personal interview session later on. Until 2011 admission was based on the Joint Management Entrance Test conducted by the IITs and Indian Institute of Science in rotation. From the academic year 2012 JMET is replaced with the Common Admission Test.

Ph.D in Management
The department offers PhD in finance, general management, HR and OB, marketing, operations, strategic management, systems and IT management, and technology management area. The requirements for PhD admission are:
 * A master's degree in an eligible discipline with a good academic record
 * Qualification in CAT/AIMA/GATE/UGC-NET JRF or Lectureship or equivalent.
 * Candidates with managerial experience are also eligible for the qualifying test.

Extracurricular
activities include the Teacher's Day event, Hostel Day event, industrial visits, class trips and Outbound at Dawn.

CURA
CURA is the annual National Business School Fest of the NIT Warangal. It is organized by students of MBA at School of Management. Each year CURA revolves around a theme