For those aspirants who have a flair for management studies and are interested in making their career in the management line and its specializations – Marketing, Finance, HR and Systems an undergraduate education in the same field would groom them to face the rigors of post graduate management studies and or/ a career in management – A Bachelor in Business Administration, popularly abbreviated as B.B.A is an apt course.
The basic requirement for an aspirant to get admitted to this course is that he/ she should have cleared HSC, but nowadays with increasing competition a lot of colleges/ institutions providing this course as a part of their curriculum have fallen back on entrance examinations as well to select the crème-de-la- crème for admission.
Normally, there is an objective-type entrance test for admission to BBA course which evaluates English language, quantitative aptitude and reasoning skills. There is really no ranking or assessment of colleges for this programme, but every university would have its share of prominent colleges which attract the cream of students, and such colleges are usually rated among the best. All specialization or fields of management can be good, but when you choose a specialization it should be-in-the context of your-abilities and personality. For example, finance is a good specialization if you have strong numerical and analytical skills, while marketing is ideal for those with strong interpersonal communication skills who are open minded, comfortable with numbers and have commercial awareness. The decision on a specialisation needs to be taken much later.
By enrolling for this undergraduate programme, an aspirant gets to understand the basics of management and at the same time sharpens and hones his/her skills – interpersonal, communication, aptitude, language, knowledge etc. In short, he/ she gets ready for battle – to face the entrance examinations of the top B Schools for a post graduate program and/ or a career in management in whatever specialization they choose.
Some of the top colleges/ Universities offering B.B,A programme as follows:
- Christ University, Bangalore
- Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Pune
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
- Wisdom Faculty of Management Studies, Banasthali University, Jaipur
- Amity School of Business, Noida
- Institute of Management Studies, Noida
- Madras Christian College, Chennai
- Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
- Department of Business Administration, SRM University, Chennai
- M.S. Ramiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore
- Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai
Once an aspirant successfully completes the course, he/ she has a lot of options. While most of them continue to pursue a post graduate programme in Management, some of them take
The plunge into the job market and get into junior management positions in the corporate world. Having said that, here the options for them are not limited. Be it Finance, Banking, Marketing, Sales, Research, Business Development, Advertising, Corporate Relations, PR, Process Associate etc. That is one of the reasons this course is getting much fanfare now.