Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management [Ex-PGDM]

The Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management at IIFT, New Delhi, is a part-time management diploma aimed at working professionals who want to move into or advance within international trade and business roles without stepping away from their jobs. Delivered by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, the programme is built around core management subjects combined with a strong international-business and trade orientation that is IIFT's specific area of strength, covering topics such as global trade operations, export-import policy, cross-border finance, and international marketing alongside the standard management disciplines. Because the cohort is drawn from working executives, teaching leans on case discussion and applied problem-solving rather than a purely theoretical classroom format, and cohorts typically bring a mix of industry backgrounds into the room. Participants usually continue in their current organisation through the programme, applying what they learn directly to ongoing trade, supply-chain, or international-business responsibilities at work. On completion, the diploma is generally used by professionals to move into more senior international-business, trade-policy, or global-operations roles, or to formalise experience already gained in that space. The institute sets the sanctioned intake for each batch of this programme and divides it across the categories and quotas that apply under its admission policy; the current session's official, category-wise seat matrix is published by IIFT in its own admission notice and should be checked there rather than assumed.