Course Offered:

The Masters in Non Profit Management is A TWO-YEAR (Four Semester) Program offered by the VILD in collaboration with prestigious University of Mysore. Those of the candidates who successfully complete all the four semesters of the Two year course will be awarded Master of Non Profit Management (MNPM) degree by the University of Mysore.

The University has evolved this course as a unique Inter-Disciplinary Academic Programme. The University has constituted a separate Board of Studies for the academic governance of the course. MNPM is primarily a field-based course. There is compulsory Apprenticeship during Second and Third Semesters carrying 100 marks each, and during the Fourth Semester a candidate has to do a Project Work for 200 marks.

Specialty of this course is the practical experience-based learning, facilitated by the subject experts with vast personal knowledge of NPO working. Hence, 50 per cent of the total marks are earmarked for Internal Assessment.

Optional exits:

(a) At the end of second semester with award of Post Graduate Diploma in Non Profit Management (PGDNPM)

(b) At the end of third semester with award of Advanced Diploma in Non Profit Management (ADNPM)

Lateral entry:

A candidate who holds a PGDNPM or ADNPM or any other Post graduate diploma equivalent to, or with any Masters Degree in related or relevant field to Non-Profit sector shall be eligible for lateral admission to conventional third semester provided such a candidate completes successfully a qualifying examination of at least two hours duration conducted by the Institute based on the course contents of the conventional first two semesters of the said MNPM Programme.