 The institute primarily offers a two-year full-time residential Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, a 3 years post graduate MBA degree(EMBA) course for working executives and an advanced programme in management leading to the award of a Ph.D. degree.Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur, was set up as the first school of management within the IIT system in 1993 at a time when India had just opened its doors to economic liberalization.The school was established with an aim to develop managers with a strong technological background who could lead tomorrow's corporate behemoths to the pinnacle of success.