Jaipuria Institute of Management, Ghaziabad, Delhi/NCR organized a five day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advance Research Methodology and Data Analytical Tools from 10th to 14th July, 2013 at their campus.

The objective of this FDP was acclimatizing the faculty, research scholars and academicians with new trends in the field of research and to provide hands on experience on latest data analytical tools like SPSS and MS Excel. Sixty participants involved themselves to learn various dimension of research through this FDP programme.

Sessions were taken by resource persons from different business schools. Prof. Ajay Pundit from FMS, New Delhi, provided insights on research formulation and research design. He also provided information on hypothesis development. Prof. V Shekhar from IBS Gurgaon provided a detailed understanding of Regression including dummy and multiple and co-linearity diagnosis. Parametric Test like ANOVA and ANCOVA were discussed by Prof. Jamal Farooqui from AMU. Prof. O. P. Wali from IIFT, New Delhi explained Structure Equation Modeling (SEM).

On day three, Dr Ajay Chauhan from IMT, Ghaziabad discussed Non Parametric Tests and Prof Neen Sondhi from IMI, New Delhi discussed Multi-Variate Analysis and Cluster Analysis with participants.

The last two days of the programme had exclusive sessions on application of SPSS 21 and MS Excel. The session on MS Excel was delivered by corporate trainer Ms. Sonal Chadha from Copal Partners from Gurgaon. The exclusive session on SPSS was conducted by which was conducted by Prof. Saurabh Agarwal from HBTI, Kanpur.

All the dignitaries appreciated Top MBA College in Delhi – Jaipuria Institute of Management, Ghaziabad, DelhiNCR by stating that this FDP will prove to be an excellent endeavor made by the institute. At the end, Prof. (Dr) Daviender Narang, Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Ghaziabad extended his heartiest thanks to all delegates and dignitaries for making this event a grand success.