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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

First Class graduate and professionally qualified Charted Accountant / Cost and
works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned statutory bodies.
1.2. A minimum score as stipulated in the Academic Performance Indicator (API)
based Performance Based Appraisal System (PBAS) developed by UGC in these
Regulations.
2. Associate Professor:

2.1. Consistently good academic record with at least 55% marks in Master Degree
in Business Management / Administration / in a relevant management related
discipline or first class in two years full time / three year part-time PGDM declared
equivalent and recognized by AICTE / UGC

OR
First Class graduate and professionally qualified Charted Accountant / Cost and
works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned statutory body.

2. 2. Ph.D. or Fellow of IM OR of an Institute recognized by AICTE .
2.3. A minimum of 5 years’ experience of postgraduate teaching / industry / research
/ professional at managerial level excluding the period spent for obtaining the
research degree.
OR
2.4. For candidates from Industry & Profession
2.4.1. Consistently good academic record with at least 55% marks in Master’s
Degree in Business Management / Administration / in a relevant
management related discipline** or first class in two years full time / three
year part-time PGDM declared equivalent and recognized by AICTE /
UGC OR
First Class graduate and professionally qualified Charted Accountant
/ Cost and works Accountant / Company Secretary of the concerned
statutory body.
2.4.2. A minimum of 10 years’ experience of postgraduate teaching industry /
research / profession, out of which 5 years must be at the level of assistant
professor or equivalent excluding the period spent for obtaining research
degree. The candidate should have Professional work experience, which
is significant and can be recognized at national / international level as
equivalent to Ph.D and 10 years managerial experience in industry /
profession of which at least 5 years should be at the level comparable to
that of lecture.
2.5. Teaching, research industrial and / or professional experience in a reputed
organization;

2.6. Published work, such as research papers, patents filed / obtained, books and / or
technical reports;
2.7. Experience of guiding the project work /dissertation of PG / Research Students or
supervising R&D projects in industry;
2.8. A minimum score as stipulated in the Academic Performance Indicator (API)
based Performance Based Appraisal System (PBAS) developed by UGC in these
Regulations.

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