Masters’ Union launches ‘PGP Bharat’, a travelling postgraduate programme where students visit & consult with companies in 20 Indian cities

From the ports of Mundra, to Amul’s dairies in Anand, from ITC’s factory floors in Pathankot to the trading floors of Mumbai - A city-by-city course embedded in Bharat’s economic corridors 

• Strong interest ahead of programme launch with 5,000+ applications and multiple day-one sign-ups signal high demand for hands-on, in-field business education
• 25+ business and 10 cultural immersions across 20 cities, working alongside CXOs, founders, and industry leaders
• Students launch dropshipping ventures, build personal content identities, and present startup ideas for pre-seed funding

GURUGRAM: Masters’ Union, one of India’s leading business and technology schools, today introduced ‘PGP Bharat’, a first-of-its-kind travelling postgraduate programme where students will intern and consult with Fortune 500 companies and India’s leading startups across 20 cities. Finance is learned at institutions that move capital such as RBI, NSE and HDFC. Logistics is studied on the ground at Adani Ports, Mundra. Venture building and scaling happen in Bengaluru alongside marquee unicorns such as CRED, Meesho and Zerodha. Operations are rebuilt on the shop floor with plant leaders at ITC and Nivia in Jalandhar, and cooperative scale is examined at Amul in Gujarat. Unlike a traditional MBA, PGP Bharat students will not observe from a classroom but get to work with the operators who make the decisions. 

PGP Bharat is a six month programme spanning three academic terms in 20 cities. The programme features 35+ real-world immersions, 40+ CXO sessions, practitioner workshops and 1:1 mentoring. Term 1 (Months 1–2) focuses on travel-based immersions across 20 cities with business and cultural assignments; Term 2 (Months 3–4) combines in-class learning with a dropshipping challenge to apply frameworks practically; and Term 3 (Months 5–6) blends in-class learning with venture initiation, allowing students to present pre-seed startup ideas while building real-world business understanding. 

Immersion across each city revolves around a single operating question. Students gather data in the field, work alongside those who own the outcomes and defend their decisions. A logistics module at Mundra quantifies the cost of a day’s delay and proposes a fix. A manufacturing stint in Jalandhar lifts throughput on one SKU. Mumbai centres markets and regulation inside RBI, NSE and HDFC. Bengaluru focuses on product, venture and scale with founders and VCs. Darjeeling maps value capture from farm to retail. Lucknow assesses vendor readiness in the defence corridor. The route spans Mundra and Ahmedabad; Jalandhar and NCR; Mumbai; Bengaluru and Hyderabad; Darjeeling, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and the Andamans. Assessment is based on shipped outputs - playbooks, briefs, memos and working experiments reviewed by the practitioners who run those functions. 

Pratham Mittal, Founder, Masters’ Union, said, “PGP Bharat is a special course for us because it teaches business where it is built: in ports, plants, markets and policy offices across India. In our other programmes, we have seen how quickly students grow when they sit with founders and practitioners to diagnose a bottleneck or defend a memo that must answer basic market questions. PGP Bharat doubles down on that idea. It keeps the learning in the field and asks for clear evidence of what students can do. Along the way, it shows them the building blocks of Bharat and the spirit that holds them together - the hard work, the hustle and the quiet depth of our business community. We want that spirit to take root in our students.” 

“Good management education should develop sound judgment and a respect for how decisions are made in the real world,” said Manoj Kohli, Chairman, Masters’ Union. “PGP Bharat places students with decision-makers at organisations such as Adani, Amul, ITC, RBI, NSE, HDFC, Godrej and leading founders and investors. The test is simple: can you improve a line on the shop floor, design a plan that stands up to scrutiny, or run an experiment that moves a real metric?” 

Teaching is led first by practitioners and then by academics. Each immersion is anchored by renowned leaders from host organisations such as Adani, ITC, HDFC, etc; who along with their teams, set the brief, open their floors and evaluate outcomes. Practitioner teaching is complemented by Masters’ Union’s global faculty, including Dr Edward J. Rogers (former Chief Knowledge Officer, NASA Goddard), Prof. Karthik Ramanna (Oxford Saïd), Dr Bhaskar Chakravorti (Tufts) and Mihir Mankad (Harvard/Tufts). 

Admissions will be held in three application rounds (R1: October, R2: December, R3: January) for a single annual cohort that will begin its journey across India’s business centres in January 2026. The programme is open to final-year students and graduates from any discipline, early-career professionals, family-business successors, creators and international applicants. No prior work experience is mandatory. Selection will emphasise curiosity, initiative and grit through an application review and interview with industry leaders. Graduates will receive a PGP certificate reflecting their on-ground learning and shipped outputs. Interest has been strong ahead of the programme launch, with 5,000+ enquiries recorded and several sign-ups on day one; an early signal that learners are seeking a hands-on alternative to classroom-first business education. 

About Masters’ Union:

Masters’ Union is a premium tech & business school based in the corporate district of Gurugram. It was founded in 2020 with the philosophy of hands-on learning where students learn by doing. The leadership behind Masters’ Union consists of graduates from Stanford, Wharton, and IITs and IIMs. Unlike traditional colleges, the faculty at Masters’ Union comprises MDs, CXOs and AI Experts from companies such as Amazon, Apple, IBM, McKinsey, PwC, and KPMG. Additionally, the Institute also brings in faculty from the world’s top-ranked universities such as Oxford & Harvard. Visit https://mastersunion.org/