Academia – IFQM

Our Commitment to Quality Education

We believe that fostering a strong ‘Quality Mindset’ from the ground up, especially within academia, is crucial for this national endeavor. Our engagement with higher education institutions is driven by a two-pronged strategy: Enriching Existing Curricula with industry-relevant insights and Cultivating Student-Led Quality Clubs that act as vibrant hubs for practical learning and collaboration.

Evolve Curriculum and Courses:
Industry Integration

IFQM is actively collaborating with leading educational institutions to enrich and enhance the existing curricula, co-create new courses, and develop full-fledged PG programs focused on Quality, Innovation, and Excellence. This ensures the classroom learnings directly align with workplace needs, preparing students to solve current real-world challenges.

Enriched
Curriculum

With expertise of founding and member companies, IFQM aids in embedding quality principles and philosophy across various core courses, ensuring a holistic understanding. The emphasis is on understanding and solving industry challenges through internships, live projects, case studies to appreciate the impact which can be created through focus on Big ‘Q’ and small ‘q’ and plant facility visits to enrich practical understanding.

Courses on areas
of Quality

Through newly co-created basic and advanced courses on Quality and related topics, the aim is to provide exposure to students on application of tools and philosophy before they join organizations – enabling to be industry ready on Day 0. The courses are designed with institute faculty and industry experts, bringing practical experience to classroom setup. This also includes integration of upcoming areas – Digital, AI/ML, ESG, Cybersecurity etc. and its role in achieving Business Objectives.

Future-Ready
PG Programs

Collaboration is focused on developing specialized Post Graduate Program on Business Excellence – enabling the participants to understand, learn and appreciate the nuances of holistic business management, with significant inputs from industry leaders – creating a pool of business leaders to drive Indian industry.

Our Dynamic ‘Quality Clubs’

An initiative to create Quality Consciousness among a larger set of students, through online and in-campus engagements. The student-led Quality Clubs are igniting a passion for quality, innovation, and excellence among students in participating institutes across India. Mentored by faculty and enabled by IFQM and experts from member companies, the club provides platform for learning-by-doing. The clubs are initiated in few colleges and scaling up with focus on Management, Engineering and Medical. The activities are customized as per the domain and stream of participating students and institute rules and regulations for establishing Clubs and Societies. IFQM also enables regular Competitions / Hackathons to trigger bright minds to suggest solutions which would be used to develop solutions for the industries.

BIT, Sindri

BIT Sindri is a premier engineering college located in Sindri, Jharkhand, India. Established in 1949, it is affiliated with the Jharkhand University of Technology and offers a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across various engineering disciplines.

JSS AHER, Mysore

JSS College of Pharmacy, a constituent college of JSS AHER, Mysore was started in the year 1973. The institution offers B. Pharm (4 years), Pharm. D (6 years), Pharm.D (PB) (3 years), M.Pharm (2 years) in twelve specializations and Ph.D.

KPGU, Vadodara

Established as Private University in 2021, Drs. Kiran & Pallavi Patel Global University (KPGU) Vadodara, offers quality education in Engineering and Technology, Health-Care, Science, Commerce and Management, Nursing

Manipal University, Jaipur

Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), launched in 2011, a multi-disciplinary university offers career-oriented courses at all levels, i.e., UG, PG and doctoral and across diverse streams.

NIT, Jamshedpur

National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, established in 1960, is an Institute of National Importance for Technical Education located at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.

SIOM, Nashik

Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM), Nashik, differentiates itself from other PG Management Schools primarily on its vision of Empowering & Leading Operations Excellence. SIOM is one of the very rare B-schools with a 100% focus on Operations Management Industry linkage for training.

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Measure What Matters. Improve What Counts. Achieve What Inspires

Empowering Students

Equipping the students with industry- relevant skills and strengthening quality mindset, making them future ready.

Enhancing Institutions

Strengthening academic offerings with practical, industry-aligned content and fostering strong academia-industry collaborations, enabling academia to participate in addressing industry challenges .

Boosting Industry

Creating a pipeline of quality-conscious professionals, providing a platform for organizations to share challenges and explore deep expertise available with academia to solve challenges.

Impact

Real insights from individuals empowered by our quality-driven approach

Heer Trivedi

President, Quality Club
KPGU

"Quality club the name itself says a lot. Where the club functions with the mindset of quality first."

From leading as the Marketing Head to becoming President of the club each step taught me something new about leadership and teamwork. These experiences shaped my approach to problem solving and decision.

Kriti Pandey

President, Quality Club
NIT Jamshedpur

"Before joining the Quality Club, I saw 'quality' as just a corporate buzzword."

But through seminars and case studies, I realized it’s a mindset rooted in consistency and precision. As President, this role has deepened my sense of responsibility and leadership rooted in precision and purpose. It’s a mindset I’ll carry forward into my professional journey

Dr. Tejpal Jhajhari

Faculty Co-ordinator
Quality Club MUJ

"The Quality Club at Manipal University Jaipur, supported by the Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM)"

Has deeply shaped our understanding of quality as a way of life. IFQM’s mentorship and initiatives helped us see quality not just as a concept but as a culture. Their insightful sessions and webinars showcased global best practices and real-world challenges, inspiring me to embrace continuous improvement and innovation.

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Join the Nation - First Movement – Towards Strengthening ‘Brand India’

We invite academic institutions, passionate faculty members, and motivated students to participate in this journey. Let’s collaborate to enhance Quality Consciousness and strengthen the ‘Quality Mindset’, aligned towards developing future ready professionals and building the ‘Brand India’.

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