The MBA Programme: Selection Procedure

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The MBA Programme

Selection Procedure Course Structure & Evaluation


Summer Project The Curriculum
Meet the Industry Industrial Tour
Co-Curricular Activities

The MBA programme offered by the Department of Business Management is a two-year full time
Post Graduate programme that consists of four semesters covering 28 courses, with an average of
75 classes of 50 minutes each, assigned to each course.

The programme aims at moulding students into effective managers by providing them with courses
reinforced with multi-faceted inputs of management education using state-of-the-art methods of
training and active industry interface.

Selection Procedure

Candidates aspiring to join the MBA programme are required to appear for a state-wide Common
Entrance Test [ICET], which evaluates them on the basis of their analytical, quantitative and verbal
skills. The admission is offered only to the top rankers amongst the 1, 00, 000 odd candidates. The
programme has been attracting, young and bright students of the state from varied academic
streams like Engineering,

Commerce, Mathematical, Biological Sciences and Humanities.

Course Structure & Evaluation

The curriculum has been structured after an exhaustive analysis by experts from various academic
and industrial fields. Each student majors in any two of the four fundamental areas viz., Finance,
Human Resources Management, Marketing and Information Systems. Each specialised area has four
elective papers.

Examinations are conducted at the end of each semester to assess the students’ understanding in
what has been taught and learnt during that particular semester period. A comprehensive viva-voce
is conducted, at the end of each year.

Summer Project

As an integral part of the curriculum, every student takes up work on a project in an organisation
with a view to facilitate complimentary learning and greater understanding of real life organisational
situations. The duration of the training ranges from 6-8 weeks. The project guides from among the
faculty and provide necessary guidance to the students. The projects are evaluated at the end of the
fourth semester by a panel of external, internal and corporate examiners on the basis of a report, a
presentation and a viva-voce.
The Curriculum

TERM/SEMESTE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS BUSINESS BEHAVIOURAL


R ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS
ONE * Statistics for Management * Managerial * Organisation Theory &
Economics Behaviour
* Business laws &
Ethics
TWO * Quantitative Techniques * Economic & * Human Resource
for Decision Making Environmental Policy Management
THREE * Production & Operations * Leadership & Change
Management Management
* Organisation
Development & Team
Building
FOUR * Supply Chain Management * International * Performance Appraisal &
Business Counselling
* Industrial Relations
INFORMATION FINANCE AND STRATEGIC MARKETING
TECHNOLOGY ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT
* Introduction to * Financial Accounting & * Principles of
Information Technology Analysis Marketing
*Management Information * Financial Management * Marketing Research
Systems
* Knowledge Management * Management * Product Management
* Requirements Accounting & Control * Promotion &
Management * Strategic Financial Distribution
* RDBMS Decisions Management
* Financial Systems &
Services
* E-Business * Security analysis & * Strategic * Consumer behaviour
* Software Metrics & Portfolio Management Management * Services Marketing
Performance Management * International Finance

Meet the Industry

To foster a closer relationship with the industry and to enable the students to keep abreast of the
current practices of management, the department arranges a series of guest lectures and seminars
every Saturday, given by Managers and Eminent Members of the Industry. The experience and
knowledge that they share with the students provide a perfect supplement to the conventional
academic education that the university provides.

List of Other Academic Seminars

Lekha Sista, MD, Careercommunity.com


Brig. Sharma
Mr Venkat Rao - IPS officer
Mr Moheet Nagrath - VP - Global HR, P&G

Industrial Tour
The Department organizes industrial tours which enable students to understand the
realities of the shop floor. Besides visiting industrial establishments in the twin cities
the students visited the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

WORKSHOPS

Our programme aims at achieving holistic personality development. Keeping this in


view, a day-long workshop on enhancing creativity and problem solving was conducted by Prof B.
Bowonder, Dean, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI).

Co-Curricular Activities

The students participate in a variety of co-curricular activities including paper presentations, group
discussions, management games and business quizzes.

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