Thiagarajar School of Management

About Thiagarajar School of Management

Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM), Madurai has established itself in the Southern part of India as one of the premier citadels of learning, rendering creditable service to the cause of higher education. TSM was founded in 1962 by the doyen of the South Indian textile industry, Karumuttu Thiagarajar Chettiar - a great philanthropist who also founded several engineering and arts colleges, polytechnics, teacher’s training institutes, and primary and secondary schools. The initial objective was to provide quality management education for working executives and entrepreneurs. The success of this programme resulted in the inception of a part time MBA programme in 1972 followed by the full time MBA programme from 1986 onwards. With the phenomenal growth in the InfoTech industry, a full time MCA programme was added to the curriculum in 1994. The institute offers MBA & MCA Programmes, which are approved by AICTE, New Delhi, accredited by NBA, AICTE and affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University.

Thiagarajar School of Management is run by the Manickavasagam Charitable Foundation - an organization that has been actively involved in several primary and higher educational projects. Shri. Manickavasagam Chettiar, the prime mover behind TSM, was its Founder Correspondent. TSM prides itself on being one of the few institutions that does not accept any capitation fees from students seeking admission. The school is fully supported and funded by the Loyal Textiles Group - an export oriented textile mill with an annual turnover of over Rs.360 crores. The Group covers all deficits in the revenue budget, as well as the entire capital budget of TSM.
The Chairman & Managing Director of the Group, Mr. Manikam Ramaswami, a Gold Medalist from IIT Chennai, is the present Correspondent of TSM.

Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM) began with the aim to impart professional education to managers who had a burning desire to scale up their career potential with better managerial skills. The 56 year old institute is located in the heart of Madurai city, in a lush green 17- acre campus with global standard infrastructure. TSM has a high ratio of full time faculty to students, with most members of faculty holding Doctorates from prestigious institutions like IITs and IIMs who impart rich, global and deep insights with incisive analysis both in theory and practice to students. In a world where competition multiplies every second, placements have become a benchmark for excellence. We have around 80 corporates visiting campus for recruitment across disciplines. To keep pace with the challenges that the global environment poses for businesses across the world, apart from rigorous and dynamic course curriculum, the pedagogy has a strong focus on building analytical and problem solving approach.