MBA Guidelines
Guidelines:
I Semester and II Semester:
The first and second semesters contain 8 courses each of which first five are core courses, which are compulsory to all the students. The sixth course is Open Elective offered for the other branches of PG Courses of the University. However, the MBA students of School of Management Studies of JNTUH and Affiliated Colleges will register Open Elective Courses offered by the other branches (as per the Student Choice) and should complete it. The stand alone colleges of MBA students may register Open Elective subject in the other branches/departments or nearby Colleges of JNTUH. In the first semester SDA Lab and Business Communication Seminar are offered as internal papers and in second semester. AR Analysis and Summer Internship are offered as internal papers. MBA Department students should not select any of the subjects offered under open elective streams. The aim of CBCS as per the guidelines of UGC is such that, every branch of students have to study and complete some courses of unrelated branches. The MBA students are expected to study any one of the subjects of their choice in any one of the departments such as CSE, ECE, EEE, ME, Metallurgy, CE, Biotechnology, MCA etc. It is to be noted that the MBA students have to register and study the open elective subjects only in the PG Departments.
III Semester:
In the third semester, first three core courses are compulsory to all the students and four, five six are core electives offered. Under Core Electives – four different streams of Specializations are offered such as Marketing, HRM, Finance and Systems. Under each specialization 6 different courses/subject are offered and Students are free/open to opt any one of the four specializations offered. If a student opts for Finance Specialization, he has to study all three courses of Finance only in III Semester. The same is the case with HRM, Marketing and Systems. This type of elective system is imposed keeping in mind, the Industry/Banks/Private Sector/Public Sector expectations for their recruitment and selection process. A Seminar on the Business best practice and success stories of emerging leaders has been introduced as an internal paper which will be evaluated by an Internal examiner as per the Academic Regulations. Personal Effectiveness Seminar is also introduced as an internal paper in this semester.
IV Semester:
The first two courses of fourth semester are core courses which are compulsory to all the students. The students are supposed to study 3, 4 and 5 as Elective Courses. Under Core Electives – four different streams of Specializations are offered such as Marketing, HRM, Finance and Systems. Under each specialization 6 different courses are offered and Students are free/open to opt any one of the four specializations offered. If a student opts for Finance Specialization, he has to study all three courses of Finance only in the IV Semester. The same is the case with HRM, Marketing and Systems. This type of elective system is imposed keeping in mind, the Industry/Banks/Private Sector/Public Sector expectations for their recruitment and selection process. The 6th course is on pre-submission of the Project Seminar which is internal. The purpose of this course is to review the progress of MBA project of the Students and to guide them appropriately on the selection of Project Title, framing of objectives, hypotheses and sampling selection. The 7th course is introduced as Comprehensive Viva which is External and the purpose is to evaluate the students subject knowledge in all the four semesters. The purpose of this course is particularly to enhance the employment potential of the student. The 8th course is MBA project for 100 marks, out of which 25 are internal and 75 are external and students are expected to complete the project within the time frame of 4th Semester academic
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