MBA in Digital Transformation

The future of business is DIGITAL!

A recent McKinsey survey suggests that the future will belong to companies that put technology at the center of their outlook, capabilities, and leadership mandate. We live in an age where technology is transforming enterprises, and societies, and every industry and enterprise is striving to digitalize their core processes. And in order to stay afloat and succeed, businesses are adapting technology into their business strategies. 

According to an Amazon Web Services report, the number of Indian workers requiring digital skills for their jobs is set to rise by 27.3 million, over the next year, and 95% of professionals surveyed in India acknowledged that they require more digital skills. 

MBA in Digital Transformation is a four-semester Work Integrated Learning Programme designed for working professionals, who are working in or wish to make a career in the areas of Digital Business, E-Commerce and related areas. Participants will gain a good understanding of the business practices, processes, design, and strategies relevant for success in digital transformation.

MBA in Digital Transformation is a BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes are UGC approved.

 

Option to pay fees using an easy EMI option is available with 0% interest

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Admissions Open

Admissions Open

Admissions will open in Nov’25

Fees per semester

Fees per semester

INR 70,100

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Programme Highlights

  1. The MBA in Digital Transformation is a Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP) spanning four semesters. BITS Pilani's Work Integrated Learning Programmes are approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
  2. Attend live-lectures from anywhere over an online technology-enabled platform. These live lectures would be conducted by faculty mostly on weekends or after business hours enabling working professionals to pursue the programme along with their jobs.
  3. The programme allows participants to learn about emerging technologies and how those technologies can be leveraged to design, build, and manage Digital Transformation.
  4. The Project in the final semester enables students to apply concepts and techniques learnt during the programme.
  5. The programme uses a Continuous Evaluation System that assesses the learners over convenient and regular intervals. Such a system provides timely and frequent feedback and helps busy working professionals stay on course with the programme.
  6. The education delivery methodology is a blend of classroom and experiential learning. Experiential learning consists of lab exercises, assignments, case studies, research projects, and work-integrated activities
  7. Participants who successfully complete the programme will become members of an elite & global community of BITS Pilani Alumni
  8. Option to submit fee using easy-EMI with 0% interest.

Programme Curriculum

New & updated curriculum from July 2025 Batch

  • Business Statistics
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Managing People and Organizations
  • Marketing Management
  • Corporate Finance
  • Operations Management
  • Digital Strategies and Transformation Roadmap
  • Digital Business Design
  • Managerial Economics
  • Strategic Management and Business Policy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Domain Elective-1
  • Domain Elective-2
  • Domain Elective-3 / General Management Elective
  • Project

Pool of Domain Electives

  • Advanced Digital Marketing
  • Analytics for Digital Business
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Cloud Technology Management
  • Digital Banking and Payment Systems
  • Digital Manufacturing and Logistics
  • Digital Product Management
  • Digital Technologies for Business
  • Information Security and Risk Management

Pool of General Management Electives

  • Advanced Marketing Management
  • AI for Competitive Advantage
  • Business Environment, Laws, and Ethics
  • Business Research Methods
  • Data Visualization and Communication
  • Decision Analysis
  • Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Indian Ethos in Management
  • International Business and Trade
  • Leadership and Managing Change
  • Management Control Systems
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Human Resource Management
  • Technology Management in Business

Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. A limited selection of Electives will be offered at the discretion of the Institute.

For detailed programme curriculum, download the brochure.

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Mode of Learning

The Mode of Learning is based on a powerful educational approach called Work Integrated Learning. For detailed description of work integrated learning Click here

The benefits of the Work Integrated Learning Mode are as follows:

1) It enables Working Professionals to pursue the programme without any career break and along with their jobs.

2) The programme curriculum is designed for high relevance to sectors, industries and organisations the students are presently employed in.

3) Learning experience design also endeavours to integrate support and value addition by the Industry Mentors and employer organizations.

4) Enables working professionals to attend live-lectures from anywhere over an online technology-enabled platform. For the benefit of working professionals these live lectures are conducted by faculty mostly on weekends or after business hours.

5) Leverages the latest educational technologies to provide easy access to asynchronous learning materials, Learner support services and peer to peer collaboration etc.

6) Great emphasis on experiential learning by providing access to state of the art remote labs, virtual labs and cloud labs and simulations as applicable to individual courses.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

This is achieved through the exposure to contemporary software packages in the Analytics Lab that can be accessed remotely by the students.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

Continuous Assessment includes graded Assignments/ Quizzes, Mid-semester exam, and Comprehensive Exam.

CASE STUDIES AND ASSIGNMENTS

Carefully chosen real-world cases & assignments are both discussed and used as problem-solving exercises during the programme.

PROJECT

The fourth semester offers an opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge gained during the programme to a real-world like complex project. The learner is expected to demonstrate understanding of vital principles learnt across semesters and their ability to successfully apply these concepts.

Mode Of Examination

Mode of Examinations applicable for students admitted in Batch beginning in July 2025 :

Semester 1, 2 and 3 have Mid-Semester Examinations and Comprehensive Examinations for each course. These examinations are mostly scheduled on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Students need to appear in person for taking the examinations at the institution’s designated examination centres as per the examination schedule, Instructions, rules and guidelines announced before every examination. 

Students can take their examination at any of our 34 designated examination centres in India at the following locations:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Coimbatore

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Udaipur, Pilani

West Zone: Mumbai, Pune, Ahilya Nagar, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Indore, Nagpur, Bhopal, Raipur

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar

In addition to these locations, the Institution also has a designated examination centre in Dubai.

During these semesters, in addition to the above mentioned Mid-Semester and Comprehensive examinations, there will also be Quizzes/Assignments conducted online on the Learning Management System (LMS) as per the course plan in which the students need to participate.

In Semester 4 (Final Semester), the student will be doing Dissertation/Project Work as per the Institution’s guidelines.

For International Students: 

  • In addition to the above locations, the institution also has a designated international examination centre, located in Dubai.
  • To facilitate the learning of international students, applying from any other location except India and Dubai, the mode of examinations will be online, which can be availed by meeting the requirements of the institute.
  • To know more about the requirements for online examinations, Click here
  • Indian students, who are temporarily based out of India, can also avail of online examinations on request by meeting the above-mentioned requirements of the institute.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply, candidates must possess one of the following qualifications:

  • Employed professionals holding an Integrated First Degree of BITS or its equivalent such as B.E./ M.Sc. in relevant disciplines, with at least 60% aggregate marks and with minimum of one year work experience in relevant business domains.

    OR
  • Employed professionals holding a three-year undergraduate degree in such areas as Mathematics, Statistics, Science, Economics, Commerce, Humanities, and Business Management, and with at least 60% aggregate marks and with minimum of two years work experience in relevant business domains.

    OR
  • Employed professional holding recognized professional qualifications such as CA/CS/CWA/CMA/CPA, and with at least 60% aggregate marks and with minimum of one year work experience in relevant business domains.

How to Apply

 

Points to Note

a) Make photocopies of the documents mentioned in the Checklist.
b) Applicants are required to self-attest all academic mark sheets and certificates.
c) On page no. 3 a section called the Employer Consent Form. This form needs to be autthorized by your organisation’s HR or any other authorised signatory of the company.
d) On page no. 4 is a section called the Mentor Consent Form. The Mentor Consent Form needs to be signed by the Mentor. Click here to know who could be a Mentor.

UGC Approval

BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under UGC (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) of BITS Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational offerings for working professionals. WILP are an extension of programmes offered at the BITS Pilani Campuses and are comparable to our regular programmes both in terms of unit/credit requirements as well as academic rigour. In addition, it capitalises and further builds on practical experience of students through high degree of integration, which results not only in upgradation of knowledge, but also in up skilling, and productivity increase. The programme may lead to award of degree, diploma, and certificate in science, technology/engineering, management, and humanities and social sciences. On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert Committee, UGC in its 548th Meeting held on 09.09.20 has approved the continued offering of BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning programmes.

Remote Labs

The students enrolled in the WILP management programs have remote access to the labs in the areas of finance, analytics, and general management. These labs play a vital role in enhancing student engagement and enriching the “learning by doing” which has been the cornerstone of BITS Pilani WILPD programs.

Analytics Lab

The Analytics Lab hosts software packages such as Tableau, SPSS, Stata, @risk, StatTools, Eviews, Anaconda Navigator, R, Python, and PowerBI among others. These packages help the students perform basic as well as advanced analytics exercises that are related to their workplace or are covered in the analytics courses offered in our management programs. This lab enables the students to perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics related to all the functional areas of finance, marketing, supply chain management, HR management, etc. The lab has an adequate suite of packages to equip the students to work on different types of data- numeric or text, structured or unstructured.

Finance Lab

The Finance Lab hosts state-of-the-art Bloomberg Terminals that capture real-time information about the financial markets as well as the financial statements and valuable business information of the industry. The databases such as "Prowess” are also made available to the students so that they can download the information of various companies, sectors, and economies; and can undertake projects related to financial accounting, management accounting, corporate finance, derivatives trading, portfolio optimization, equity research, behavioral finance, and fintech among others. The Lab also hosts a simulation on working capital management that gives the students rich experience in managing the working capital and increases their absorption through experiential learning.

Management Lab

The Management Lab is equipped with software, simulations and digital resources that students can leverage in core areas of management. The simulations help improve the decision-making skills, business competence and integrating the application of learnings from various courses. With the Microsoft Project software, the students would be able to plan, schedule, track, collaborate to successfully execute projects, With the HSTalks Business & Management collection, students get access to the digital collection of professionally produced multimedia lectures, case studies, interviews, and peer-reviewed journals by renowned authorities in diverse subject areas such as Global Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Marketing & Sales, Strategy, Technology, and Operations.

Fee Structure

The following fees schedule is applicable for candidates seeking new admission during the academic year 2025-2026.

  • Application Fees (one time) : INR 1,500
  • Admission Fees (one time) : INR 16,500
  • Semester Fees (per semester) : INR 70,100

The one-time Application Fee is to be paid at the time of submitting the Application Form through the Online Application Centre.

Admission Fee (one-time) and Semester Fee (for the First Semester) are to be paid together once admission is offered to the candidate. Thus, a candidate who has been offered admission will have to pay INR 86,600/-. You may choose to make the payment using Netbanking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card through the Online Application Centre. Option to submit fee using easy-EMI with 0% interest.  Click here to learn more.

Semester Fee for subsequent semesters will only be payable later, i.e. at the beginning of those respective semesters.

Any candidate who desires to discontinue from the programme after confirmation of admission & registration for the courses specified in the admit offer letter will forfeit the total amount of fees paid.

For the examination centre at Dubai, in addition to the semester fees, for each semester there will be an examination centre fees of 1000 UAE Dirhams or equivalent per semester out of which 500 UAE Dirhams is to be paid at the time of appearing in Mid-semester examinations at Dubai Centre for that semester and the remaining 500 UAE Dirhams is to be paid at the time of appearing in comprehensive examinations at Dubai centre for that semester.

All the above fees are non-refundable.

Important: For every course in the program institute will recommend textbooks, students would need to procure these textbooks on their own.

Student Speak

FAQs

MBA in Digital Transformation is a BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes are UGC approved.

This programme is designed for working professionals. At the time of submitting the application, candidates must be employed in another organization. Professionals who are owners of a registered business are also eligible to apply.
For detailed information, including academic background, work experience, etc. refer to the programme eligibility criteria.

Contact classes are conducted over a technology enabled platform. These classes can be attended via the internet using a computer from any location. These contact classes offer similar levels of interactivity as regular classrooms at the BITS Pilani campus. These are conducted usually over weekends or after business hours for a total of 7-8 hours per week. If you miss a lecture, you can also access the recorded lecture on the internet.

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will receive a degree certificate from BITS Pilani.

The Degree of Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics

Each semester has a Mid-semester Exam and a Comprehensive Exam for each course, which are conducted over weekends. Students will need to appear in-person to take these exams at exams centers in the following locations:

India Centers:

Students can take their examination at any of our 34 designated examination centres in India at the following locations:

South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Coimbatore

North Zone: Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Udaipur, Pilani

West Zone: Mumbai, Pune, Ahilya Nagar, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Indore, Nagpur, Bhopal, Raipur

East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar

International Centers: Dubai

In case students are unable to take an exam due to work-related commitments, there is also a provision of appearing for Make-up Exams.

 

The programme provides a high degree of interactivity between students and the faculty members and programme instructors. Q&A sessions during the contact classes (which you can attend from anywhere over a technology enabled platform) allow participants to pose questions to the faculty members, and seek guidance through voice and chat. Further interaction with faculty members and peers is enabled through the e-learning portal, by using discussion forums and message boards.

The programme features high usage of experiential learn components such as Simulations, Virtual Labs, and Remote Labs, in order to mimic the on-campus experience.
Participants will be given access to portals, that will allow them to access both cloud-based labs, as well as Campus-based physical labs. Using leading industry-recognised Software tools, Programming languages, and Simulation software, participants will be able to perform experiments and run simulations to advance their knowledge
 

Candidates applying to the programmes must choose a Mentor, who will monitor the academic progress of the candidate, and act as an advisor & coach for successful completion of the programme. Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person from the same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same organisation, a candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who has the required qualifications. For detailed information, please refer to the programme brochure.
Kindly note that BITS Pilani does not assign Mentors to programme participants.

The programme is designed for working professionals, and participants are not required to travel to a BITS campus. However, certain programme offer Campus Immersion Modules such as workshops or seminars, which are highly recommended but not mandatory. 

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