Before we dwell on the credibility and worth of the program, it’s necessary to know the objectives of the same. DEM is designed to help management students develop knowledge, skill, and confidence to conceive, lead and execute innovative and competitive initiatives involving technologies and data. 

Suitability: This program is best suitable for those students who wish to pursue careers in management in businesses that employ powers of digital technologies for business development and sustenance 

Faculty: Highly learned professors, researchers, and practitioners teach various concepts of management in the digital context. Industry professionals and faculty are also involved in the development and delivery of the pedagogy.

Research: Dynamic research work is a part of this program. However, the one-year program is packed with learning and co-curricular activities that will spare very little time for intense research that the faculty will be working on.

Roles offered: Students graduating from the DEM program have been recruited for various roles like Analytics, Consulting, and Information Technology.

Placements: IIM Udaipur placements for DEM have been tabulated below

Overall, the DEM offered by IIM Udaipur is very promising and at par with the recent trends in the industry.

The digital revolution is rapidly changing the course of many business activities across industries. Entrepreneurs, top executives, and general managers need to adopt new thinking and management styles in today's digital-centric business environment. The purpose of the course is to serve the same.

• The course is extremely good in terms of the active project work and research work it involves. 
• The faculty included academicians, industry experts, and researchers that will adopt excellent pedagogy to deliver the course.
• Students get a glimpse of solving real-life problems using Data and technology tools.
• DEM prepares students for managerial roles involving digital technologies. These include offering management consulting services for digital transformations, making assessments of digital capabilities, or even entrepreneurship.

DEM Placement Highlights

• IIM Udaipur welcomed prominent recruiters like Accenture Strategy and Consulting, Accenture Technology, Adani, Cognizant, Cybertech, Digite, Fullerton India, Genpact, IBM, Infosys, Manhattan Associates, McKinsey Digital, Mphasis, Protiviti, Publicis Sapient, Quantiphi, Reliance Retail, ServiceNow, The Math Company, Trukker, and Virtusa.
• 100% of MBA-DEM students, who opted for campus placements, were placed through campus-generated opportunities.
• 21 recruiters extended offers to MBA-DEM students at IIM Udaipur.
• Roles were offered across various domains like Business Process Improvement, Consulting & Strategy, Information Technology, Operations/Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Management, Project Management, and Sales & Marketing, and Business Development.
• Highest CTC: Rs 32.21 LPA
• Average CTC: Rs 21.29 LPA
• Median CTC: Rs 21 LPA 

IIM Udaipur’s DEM is a great program with a decent placement scenario and can be considered by MBA aspirants.

One of my friends went for this course and had a great experience and exposure through it. He described his first term experience as a thrilling one. The first term electives comprised the foundation of business such as Economics, Accounting, and Marketing. Etc. These foundation courses were combined with some digital industry subjects such as Advanced Analytics-I, Agile & DevOps.

Term 2 focuses more on technical subjects like Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, and digital business courses such as Digital Transformation Management, Product Management, etc. Students are asked to make projects on business implementation and understanding of Analytics and Technology. 

Some major highlights of the program are

• Excellent faculty along with visiting professors that are industry experts 
• Great emphasis is placed on student feedback thereby maintaining a student-driven culture. This also helps in regular evaluations and improvements.
• This course is best suited for a digital industry freak and offers a lot in this area

Overall his experience was quite good.