Asian School of Business
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Asian School of Business is a business school
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...

 located in Trivandrum, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The school was established in 2005.

Its aim is to facilitate and promote studies and research with focus on professional education. The programme is called "Post Graduation Programme in Management" (PGPM), focusing on emerging areas of higher education, disciplines like marketing, finance, human resources, systems and operations, etc. Admission to these programmes is through a Common Entrance Test
Common Entrance Test
The Common Entrance Test is a state-level competitive exam conducted for the purpose of admission of students to the first year or first semester of full time courses in Medical, Dental and Engineering Courses in professional colleges within the state in question in IndiaThe professional colleges...

 followed by group discussion and interview.

The school is presently situated at Technopark in Kerala. It plans to shift to the new campus which is approximately 16 acres (64,749.8 m²) of land in size, with modern and top class facilities. The late Mr. MNV Nair was the Professor Emeritus and Prof. S Jagadish was the first Director of the school.

ASB has held high-profile international seminars with invited guest faculty from, among others, Stanford Centre for International Development (SGID), Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

, and Northeastern University.
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