EDUCATION

IIGJ Team Up With Welingkar Institute to Introduce A 3-Year Management Studies Graduate Program

Indian Institute of Gems & Jewellery (IIGJ) Mumbai, a project of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC), has come up with a one-ofits-kind 3-year graduate program in Jewellery Design and Manufacturing Techniques, with an introduction to Management studies in collaboration with the Welingkar Institute of Management.

With these courses in the offering, IIGJ will be the first institute in the country to offer a complete graduate course on Gems and Jewellery including Operations Management for the emerging Jewellery Professional and Entrepreneurs. The academic year 2016-17 will be the first year of this course and the admission process is already in progress.

They are 6 semester courses with each semester being 6 months long. The syllabus for these courses includes introduction of jewellery, fundamentals of design, manufacturing and technology, introduction of diamond grading, jewellery designing and merchandising research. Gradually, the syllabus further covers specialization in design, manufacturing and merchandising, personality and skill development, jewellery management, sales and marketing. The last semester has been dedicated to students for a full 6 months of internship with reputed and established jewelers or manufacturers.

For more information, log onto www.iigj.org

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