The MBS Course Cycle
In the MBS programme, the courses offered are to be completed in two years. The campus must run for a minimum of 18 hours per week. Each 50 marks paper must have a minimum of 2 lecture hours per week and each 100 marks paper a minimum of 4 hours lecture per week. Each lecture hour has to be of not less than 60 minutes. The course cycle for two years is as follows:
The First Year Programme
The first year programme carries 450 marks and is organized into following six courses:
Sno. Course No Course Title
1 MSC 501 Research Methodology and Statistical Methods 100 marks
2 ECO 503 Business Economics 100 marks
3 MGT 504 Organizational Behaviors and Human Resources Management 100 marks
4 ACC 507 Management Accounting 50 marks
5 FIN 508 Corporate Financial Management 50 marks
6 MKT 509 Marketing Management 50 marks
The Second Year Programme
The second year programme carries 550 marks that constitute of three core courses (250 marks), two specialization courses (200 marks) and a thesis or project work (100 marks). The courses are organized as follows:
Core Courses
1. MSC 502 Production and Operations Management 100 marks
2. MGT 505 Business Policy and Environment 100 marks
3. MGT 506 Entrepreneurship Development 50 marks
Specialization Courses 200 marks
Any two courses from the following specialization areas:
A. Management Science (Any two courses)
1. MSC 603 Management Information System 100 marks
2. MSC 604 Decision Support System 100 marks
3. MSC 605 Productivity Management 100 marks
4. MSC 606 Total Quality Management 100 marks
B. Accounting (Any two Courses)
1. ACC 611 Profit Planning and Control 100 marks
2. ACC 612 Advanced Auditing 100 marks
3. ACC 613 Tax Laws and Tax Planning 100 marks
4. ACC 614 Accounting Theory 100 marks
C. General Management (Any two courses)
1. MGT 621 Small Business Management 100 marks
2. MGT 622 International Business 100 marks
3. MGT 623 Organizational Development 100 marks
4. MGT 624 Labor Relations 100 marks
D. Finance (Any two courses)
1. FIN 631 Foundation of Financial Theory 100 marks
2. FIN 632 Capital Structure Management 100 marks
3. FIN 633 Investments 100 marks
4. FIN 634 Financial Institutions and Markets 100 marks
5. FIN 635 Multinational Corporate Finance 100 marks
E. Marketing (Any two courses)
1. MKT 641 Service Marketing 100 marks
2. MKT 642 Consumer Behavior 100 marks
3. MKT 643 Marketing Research 100 marks
4. MKT 644 International Marketing 100 marks
F. RCH 601 Thesis 100 marks
Note: Thesis writing within the specialization area
G. RCH 602 Project Work 100 marks
Two Assignment within the specialization area
Thesis and project work
Students are required to write a thesis or two project reports during the second year programme. The thesis and project report will have to be written the specialization area selected for study by the student.
Thesis
Only those students who have passed all courses of the first year programme shall be allowed to write the thesis. The thesis has to be written under the direct supervision of faculty member of the campus/department. Evaluation of the thesis shall be based on the written part (75 marks) and viva-voce (25 marks). The evaluation of the written part of the thesis shall be conducted through to external examiners. Students should submit three copies of the thesis to the campus/department for evaluation. The concerned campus/department should submit two copies of the thesis to the office of the Dean, Faculty of Management for external evaluation. Viva-voce of thesis shall be conducted in the respective campuses by panel of expert composed of chair person of the research department, the thesis supervisor and one external examiner to be a pointed by the office of the Dean. Both in the evaluation of the written part and viva-voce of the thesis, the average of the marks awarded by the experts will be final.
Project work
Students who opt for project work shall have to work on two assignments during the second year programme on topics approved by the concerned department. The assignments are to be conducted on subject areas of contemporary relevance.
Assignment 1:
Term paper: the first project assignment shall be term paper concentrated on a literature survey in the approved topic. The term paper should be written in about 2000 words. The evaluation of the term paper shall be conducted internally by the concerned department. The term paper shall carry 25 marks.
Assignment 2:
Field work: the second assignment shall be a project report based on a field work on the approved topic. The concern department has to approve the topic. In he field work, the student will have to collect data and information will have to be tabulated, analyzed, synthesized and presented in the form of a report in the prescribed format. The report is written in about 4000 words. An external evaluator will evaluate the report. The field report shall carry 75 marks.
