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| Monday, June 16, 2008
Students evince interest in integrated MBA programme
Tiruchi: Eighty-five second-year B.E./B.Tech students of Anna
University – Tiruchi have evinced interest in enrolling
themselves for the newly-introduced Integrated MBA programme.
The university had deemed eligible only those without any arrear
in the first year for the integrated degree programme. By spending
an additional year, they would be receiving their engineering
degree and an MBA degree.
The contents of the first year MBA programme would be spread
over the second, third and fourth years under trimester pattern
for the admitted students for whom three hours of regular classes
would be held in the evenings. Two courses would be completed
for each of the 10 trimesters and one each in the last two trimesters
in order to help students devote adequate time for their final-year
project in undergraduation.
These students would be required to devote one full year after
their graduation to complete their second year of MBA, opting
for any of the four specialisations: Finance, Human Resource,
Marketing and Systems, said V. Damodaran, Chairman, Department
of Management Studies and Director, Centre for University-Industry
Collaboration. The programme is likely to be extended to affiliated
colleges in phases, he said, informing that the response for
the university’s regular two-year full-time MBA programme
was also encouraging. There were about 120 applicants for the
60 seats.
On a pattern similar to the Integrated MBA programme, the five-year
dual degree programme that the university has introduced to
enable students in core engineering disciplines to acquire an
additional degree in IT has attracted 45 applications. So far,
students of core engineering used to undertake studies in private
institutions to equip themselves for IT jobs. Through the dual
degree provision, the university would equip them in IT operations
related to their domain knowledge.
During the fifth year, they would study only IT.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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