SCMS Cochin School of Business, formerly School of Communication and Management Studies, is a management institute located at Kochi, India. The institute is located about 12 km (7.5 mi) from Ernakulam railway station. The school was established in 1976 by G. P. C. Nayar, under the trust Prathap Foundation for Education and Training. It is part of the SCMS Group of educational institutions. SCMS PGDM^{[clarification needed]} is very famous in south India.^{[citation needed]} It is rated as the best business school in Kerala after IIM-K^{[clarification needed]} since many years.^{[citation needed]} The school provides PGDM with electives in marketing, finance, retail, human resources, banking and insurance, and system and operations.

SCMS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs^[1] and by the National Board of Accreditation since 2003.^{[citation needed]}

SCMS Journal of Indian Management

Discipline	Business, Management, Accounting
Language	English
Edited by	G.P.C. Nayar
Publication details
History	2004–present
Publisher	School of Communication and Management Studies (India)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	SCMS J. Indian Manag.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0973-3167
OCLC no.	848237673
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Publications

Since 2004, the school publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, the SCMS Journal of Indian Management, focused on business, management, and accountancy.^[2] The editor-in-chief is G.P.C. Nayar, SCMS Group's founder and chairman.^[3] The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus^[4] and EBSCO and ProQuest databases.^[5]

Leadership

The founder and chairman of the SCMS Group is G. P. C. Nayar, an entrepreneur and president of the Federation of Private Self Financing Professional Institutions in India for many years.^[6]