The tentative course list was provided to us together with the "welcome letter" and courses fall under the various areas of concentration available at ISB including Analytical Finance, Entrepreneurship, Information and Technology Management, Operations Management, Strategic Marketing, and Strategy & Leadership.
September 10, 2008
Srujana (our exchange coordinator) sent more details on the resource site for exchange students and the course selection process. The resource site (The Atrium) provides information on the various courses offered and their related concentrations. It also includes the syllabus and former students' evaluation of the professor (if he is a returning professor).
Course selection and enrollment is done based on a bidding system. Each course will be offered in 1-4 classes of different schedules. Each class will have a maximum of 55 ISB students and 5 exchange students. Exchange students are allocated 1000 points per term to bid for the courses they desire to take. Depending on the number of courses one wants to bid for and the number of exchange students "competing" for the slots, this could be a strategic exercise in itself. How many courses will I be signing up for? How many people would want to sign up for the course? Which courses should I prioritize? What would be the widding bid?
Bidding comes in stages and so far, I've only been through the 3 phases:
1. Registration Phase (30 days to go): When you bid for your desired courses.
2. Pre-Sample Drop Phase
3. Section Switch Request Phase (23 days to go): When you submit a request to switch sections for a course you've already successfully signed up for. You will not lose your original slot in case the switch is unsuccessful.
In the case of Term 5, no exchange student was waitlisted on any course. 5 more phases will follow and I shall write about them as I do them.
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