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

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

and

Vagamon Vagamon ( ml, വാഗമൺ) is an Indian hill station and a revenue village primarily located in Peerumedu taluk of Idukki district (majority area including Vagamon town), and also Meenachil taluk and Kanjirappally taluk of Kottayam dis ...

in Kerala, India.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, educat ...

(DCKF) and co-promoted by

D C Books DC Books is a publisher in Kerala publisher of books in Malayalam, and one of the publishers in India . It also operates one of the largest book store chains in India, with a network of over 45 bookshops under the DC Books and Current Books b ...

. The college located at

is affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University and the

campus is affiliated to the

Kerala University University of Kerala, formerly the University of Travancore, is a state-run public university located in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India. It was established in 1937 by a promulgation of the Maharajah of Travancore, Chit ...

. DSCMAT is

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(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. Established in November 1945 first as an advisory body and later on in ...

(AICTE) and is bestowed with

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9001-2000 certification by TUV SUD for process implementation.

History

The first campus was established in 2002 in

and the

campus was started in 2006. The institution incorporates a fully residential '

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' 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 an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

, 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 origin ...

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

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA 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

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in Kerala and among the Top-23 in All India private B-Schools category by

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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 DCSMAT campus in

; And affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala located at DCSMAT campus in

Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

KINFRA Park. The Centre for Tropical Architecture managed by the School is headed by the renowned Architect TM Cyriac of Environmental Creations, along with eminent researchers and academicians. The school's Kerala Architecture Festival in 2021, 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 the month of January. It is organised in partnership with NASA (National Association for Student Architects) and is a pan-India event. Courses offered here are

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(

BArch BArch may refer to: * Bundesarchiv (BArch), the German Federal Archives * Bachelor of Architecture The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) is a bachelor's degree designed to satisfy the academic requirement of practising architecture around the wor ...

) and Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (BA Interior Design).

Courses

DSCMAT Vagamon campus

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

(

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

) *

(

) *

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(

B.Com A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanma ...

) *

Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business administration awarded by colleges and universities after completion of undergraduate study in the fundamentals of business administration and usually including advanced ...

( BBA) * Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (BA Interior Design)

DCSMAT Trivandrum campus

(MBA) *

(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 Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan (born 24 May 1934) is an Indian cardiac surgeon. He is a former President of the Indian National Science Academy and National Research Professor of the Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Vibushan ...

, a

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surgeon and former president of the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...

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

DC Books DC Books is a publisher in Kerala publisher of books in Malayalam, and one of the publishers in India . It also operates one of the largest book store chains in India, with a network of over 45 bookshops under the DC Books and Current Books b ...

, 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 Omchery N. N. Pillai (born 1 February 1924) is an Indian Malayalam–language playwright, novelist and poet from Kerala. He has written nine full-length plays, more than 80 one-act plays and a few novels. His plays are noted for their bold exp ...

, T T Thomas, Prof. Abraham Koshy, Prof. (Dr) P R Poduval, K X M John, Sam Santhosh,

Shaffi Mather Shaffi Mather (born 6 February 1970) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who served as the Economic Advisor to the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, of Kerala's Congress led, UDF Government. He also worked, for a short period, as an advisor to Rah ...

, Harikrishnan R. Nair,

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M C Ashok Kumar (Retd.).

Management festivals

DCSMAT

campus organises 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

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from across

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and other

south Indian South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territo ...

states. The chief guest of 2016 was

John Brittas John Brittas is an Indian politician, Journalist, managing director of Kairali TV (Malayalam Communications, Ltd.) and former Business Head of Asianet Communications. He was born on 24 October 1966, in Kannur into Alilakuzhy family in Pulikuru ...

, the managing director of

Kairali TV Kairali TV is an Indian Malayalam-language general entertainment television channel owned by Kairali TV Network (Malayalam Communications Limited). It is headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram. It was launched on 17 August 2000. The channel is bac ...

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, with shared use of a lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex and have private or shared b ...

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

campus is set amidst the 72 acre

KINFRA Film and Video Park Kinfra Film and Video Park is India’s first Infotainment Industrial Park. It is also the first SEZ in India for animation and gaming. It is situated in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala State. The Park is a fully owned subsidiary of K ...

Kazhakuttom Kazhakoottam is a major suburb in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, India. The largest IT Park of the country in terms of developed area Technopark along with Technocity an upcoming integrated IT township is situated here. ...

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 central government-owned-public business schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of busine ...

(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 m ...

(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 wi ...

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

, coffee shop, mini

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, bank and ATM,

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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 writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh ...

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