UPES

University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES) is India's and Pan Asia's first Energy & Core Sector University. UGC approved and NAAC accredited, UPES offers over 47 graduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs to more than 5000 students in the high growth sectors of Oil & Gas, Power, Aviation, Shipping, Automobile, Infrastructure, Electronics, IT and Logistics & Supply Chain. The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) and Centre for Aviation Studies (CAS), UPES offer Executive programs through distance learning mode for the working professionals.


A statutory university, UPES was established in 2003 through an Act (UPES Act, 2003) of the State Legislature of Uttarakhand. It is situated in a picturesque, 30-acre spacious campus in Pondha valley, Dehradun.

Monday, January 31, 2011

UPES’s MBA courses in transportation and logistics

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is the only petroleum university India, and conducts sector specific courses for industries that have tremendous growth opportunities and need skilled personnel for running them. The MBA Aviation Management course is run with the objective of harnessing the potential of the developing field of aviation.

This industry is growing at an annual rate of 18%, and trained professionals who possess the requisite technical and managerial knowledge can steer it in the desired direction. Experts of this field can look forward to a rewarding career from the initial days itself, as the variegated sectors of this industry provide ample opportunities to them at all levels.

Similarly, the MBA Port & Shipping Management course of UPES has been setup with the aim of organizing the maritime trade sector of the country. The employment opportunities exist in more than 8 fields of this industry, which account for 95% of the country’s trade by volume and 70% by value.

These two courses are run by the Colleges for Transportation Logistics of UPES, and have durations for two years. Interested candidates need to give a national level management aptitude test, like CAT, MAT or GMAT, or the UPES-MET, and the shortlisted candidates are called for interviews and group discussions by this University of Petroleum Studies.