MBA Program Structure 2024-26

MBA Study Scheme & Syllabus 2024-26

• MBA program for the batch of 2024-26 encompasses a structured study scheme
• The program curriculum includes a blend of core courses, domain-specific electives, and value addition components
• A total of 108 credits are required to complete the MBA program
• The aggregate marks for all semesters amounts to 3500

Program Structure Overview

• The curriculum comprises core courses, domain core, electives, domain electives and value addition
• Value addition courses are non-credit
• Semester 1 has 8 core courses, 1 domain core, and 2 electives for a total of 11 courses
  • Semester 1 has 27 credits
• Semester 2 includes 8 core, 1 domain core, 1 domain elective, and 1 elective, totaling 11 courses
  • Semester 2 has 30 credits
• Semester 3 offers 4 core, 5 domain core, and 1 domain elective, accounting for 10 courses
  • Semester 3 has 33 credits
• Semester 4 consists of 4 core and 1 domain elective, amounting to 5 courses
  • Semester 4 has 18 credits
• Total credits for the MBA program is 108

Semester-wise Credit and Marks Distribution

• Semester I: 27 credits, 900 marks
• Semester II: 30 credits, 1000 marks
• Semester III: 33 credits, 1050 marks
• Semester IV: 18 credits, 550 marks

Semester I Courses and Credits

• Organizational Behavior & Principles of Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Financial Accounting (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Managerial Economics (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Business Statistics (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Legal Aspects of Business (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Marketing Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• IT for Business (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Business Communication (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Total core credits: 27, total core marks: 800
• Electives (choose one):
  • Foreign Language [French / German]: 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Business Etiquettes & Grooming: 3 credits, 100 marks
• Value Addition (Non-Credit based):
  • Comprehensive Test
  • Universal Human Values & Ethics
  • Total credits including Value Addition: 27, Total marks: 900

Semester II Courses and Credits

• Financial Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Human Resource Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Production & Operations Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Business Environment & Sustainability (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Entrepreneurship Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Research Methodology (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Business Excel (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Basics of Taxation (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Total core credits: 24, total core marks: 800
• Specialisation 1 (Each 3 Credits): 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Finance: Financial Markets, Products & Institutions
  • Marketing: Sales & Distribution Management -HR: Human Capital Management -Operations: Supply Chain Management
• Electives (choose one): 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Python Programming
  • Personal Financial Planning
  • Industrial Analysis & Current Trends
• Value Addition (Non-Credit based):
  • MOOC/NPTEL/Swayam Certification
  • Total credits including electives and value add: 30, total marks: 1000

Semester III Courses and Credits

• Strategic Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Project Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Innovation & Design Thinking (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Summer Internship (Core): 6 credits, 150 marks
  • Total core credits: 15, total core marks: 350
• Specialisation (Core) (5 courses * 3 credits each): 15 credits, 500 marks
  • Finance includes Security Analysis & Portfolio Management, Financial Derivatives, Management of Banks & Financial Services, Corporate Valuation, Fintech & Modelling
  • Marketing: Marketing Strategy, Consumer & Industrial Buying Behaviour, Digital Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations, Product & Brand Management
  • Human Resources: Labour Laws & Industrial Relations, Human Resource Information System, Neuroscience for Managerial & Personal Effectiveness, Negotiation & Conflict Management, Science of Employee Well-being & Safety
  • Operations: Service Operations Management, Total Quality & Maintenance Management, Operations Research, Material & Inventory Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
• Specialisation (Electives): 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Finance elective: Multinational Finance, Wealth Management, Insurance and Risk Management, Alternative Investment
  • Marketing electives: Customer Relationship Management, Marketing Application & Practices, Market Research & Analytics, Integrated Marketing Communication
  • HR electives: Compensation Management, Global Leadership & Cultural Intelligence, Introduction to People Analytics, Human Resource Planning
  • Operations electives: Supply Chain Analytics, World Class Manufacturing, New Product Development, Supply Chain Design
• The total for all credits is 33 and marks is 1050

Semester IV Courses and Credits

• International Business Management (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Governance & Social Responsibility (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Management Lessons through Indian Knowledge System (IKS) (Core): 3 credits, 100 marks
• Dissertation Project (Core): 6 credits, 150 marks
  • Total credits for Core Courses: 15, for 450 marks
• Specialisation (Electives) (1 course * 3 credits each): 3 credits, 100 marks
  • Finance electives: Applied Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Behavioral Finance: Decision Making & Markets, Corporate Restructuring & Mergers & Acquisitions.
  • Marketing electives: Rural Marketing, Services Marketing, International Marketing, Marketing of Non-Profit Organisations.
  • Human Resources electives: HR Ethics & Compliance, HR Audit & Accounting, HR Strategy in Transforming Organisation, Learning & Development.
  • Operations electives: Operations Strategy, Strategies Sourcing & Procurement Management, Logistics Policies & Supply Chain Finance, Quantitative Models.
• Total credits (A + B): 18, total marks: 550

MBA-101-CC: Organizational Behavior & Principles of Management (Semester I)

• Equips students with the skills to interact effectively with individuals and groups inside organizations
• Appreciates individuals, interpersonal dynamics and group processes
• Explores the conceptual framework of Organizational Behavior (OB) and its real-world implementations
• Understands individual, group, and structural dynamics for effectively achieving organizational goals
• Evaluates theories and models of organizational behavior.
• Fosters an inclusive and collaborative approach in diverse workplace settings
• Unit 1: Explores need and significance of organizational behavior, models and the organizational environment, organizational behavior modification and types of behaviors
• Unit 2: Personality traits and influencing factors, learning approaches, attitudes, values, perceptions, and workplace emotions
• Unit 3: Management concepts, scope, importance, the role of managers, and evolution
• Unit 4: Principles of management, theory; organizational culture and affecting factors, and organizational change: importance, stability.
• Unit 5: Organizational effectiveness, benchmarking, total quality management,, Fayol and Taylor principles
  • Activities are project-based

MBA-102-CC: Financial Accounting (Semester I)

• Aims to familiarize students with principles of financial, cost, and management accounting
• Enables students to prepare, analyze, and interpret financial statements and use accounting tools for decision-making
• Recalls basic accounting principles
• Analyzes financial data using ratios and other techniques
• Assesses ethical implications of financial reporting
• Unit 1: Introduces accounting principles, concepts, double-entry system, rules for debit/credit entries, and preparation of trial balance
• Unit 2: Focuses on preparing final accounts, differentiating between capital and revenue items, and creating trading, profit and loss accounts, and balance sheets
• Unit 3: Discusses depreciation concepts, methods (WDV, SLM), and ratio analysis covering liquidity, profitability, and turnover ratios
• Unit 4: Covers funds flow analysis, preparation of schedules showing changes in working capital, and cash flow statements, and their uses and limitations
• Unit 5: Covers elements of cost, types of costs, cost sheet preparation, standard costing, and variance analysis for materials

MBA-103-CC: Managerial Economics (Semester I)

• Enables understanding of economic theories and principles for effective operation in business environment
• Explains key terms, identifies issues within a managerial context, and analyzes inter-relationships
• Develops critical thinking skills based on micro-economics, anticipates how firms & consumers will make decisions
• Unit 1: Introduces managerial economics within the context of economic systems management and integration
• Unit 2: Covers demand and supply analysis, and forecasting methods
• Unit 3: Introduces consumer behavior, utility, and Indifference curve analysis including consumer surplus.
• Unit 4: Production, costs, and revenues are analyzed through production functions, with emphasis on economies of scale and cost-minimization.
• Unit 5: Market structure and decision-making relating to the characteristics of perfect competition

MBA-104-CC: Marketing Management (Semester I)

• Develops foundational marketing principles while guiding through segmentation, targeting, and strategic perception
• Helps students grasp marketing concepts and develop robust strategies encompassing product, price, place, and promotion
• Analyses the dynamic forces influencing decision-making processes while implementing distinguishing strategies from competitors
• Unit 1: Core concepts of marketing including needs, wants, demand, value, exchange and satisfaction
• Unit 2: First part of the marketing mix focuses on the meaning of product, product levels, cycle plus new product development
• Unit 3: Second part of the marketing mix introduces channels of distribution also including integration
• Unit 4: Segmentation, targeting, and positioning are covered.
• Unit 5: Focuses on value edition for gaining distinction

MBA-105-CC: Business Statistics (Semester I)

• Focuses on applying statistical methods to effectively analyze business data.
• Aims to develop statistical problem-solving skills across a wide variety of business contexts.
• Emphasizes data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation through:
  • Descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Correlation and regression analysis
  • Hypothesis testing
• Provides a solid quantitative foundation for more advanced analytical and data-driven decision-making courses.

MBA-106-1-GE: Foreign Language - French (Semester I)

• The course is designed to help students understand, speak, read and write in French
• Aims to provide a deeper understanding into the French culture, their customs and conventions
• Unit 1: Introduction to French language, phonetics, geography
• Unit 2: Introductions and greetings, numbers, pronouns and verbs
• Unit 3: The Family, describing people.
• Unit 4: Describing daily life, common interactions
• Unit 5: Skill development

MBA-106-2-GE: Foreign Language - German (Semester I)

• The course aims to build the ability to understand, speak, read and write in the German language.
• The aim is to provide insights into German traditions, cultures and customs
• Unit 1: Greetings, introductions, numbers 1 to 1 billion
• Unit 2: Telephone numbers, telling time, negation, sentence structure
• Unit 3: Daily routines, schedules, time of day, basic household items
• Unit 4: Exchanging Information, describing people, food names etc
• Unit 5: Skill development

MBA-107-CC: Legal Aspects of Business (Semester I)

• Equips students with important legal provisions related to business operations
• Correlates corporate issues with relevant laws for clarifications on business operations
• Covers basic legal concepts, contracts, sales of goods, basic concepts and consumer protection
• Unit 1: Introduction to law, definitions, various writs
• Unit 2: Concepts related to proposal, acceptance, consideration in the Indian Contract Act
• Unit 3: Definitions, delivery rules, rights and duties of buyer from The Sale of Goods Act, 1930
• Unit 4: Features of companies, memorandum/articles of association under The Companies Act 2013
• Unit 5: Consumer Protection Act, IPR (Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks)

MBA-108-CC: Business Communication (Semester I)

• Aims to develop advanced communication skills and a profound understanding of principles among MBA students
• Focus is on verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Helps students to overcome the barriers that are in communication
• Unit 1: Communication and fundamentals in business
• Unit 2: Verbal and non verbal communication plus active listening techniques
• Unit 3: Principles for effective presentations and tips for public speaking to promote interpersonal relations
• Unit 4: Report writing and business letters and emails
• Unit 5: Choosing the correct vocabulary and art of storytelling

MBA-109-CC: IT for Business (Semester I)

• Equips students with skills/knowledge to utilize Microsoft Excel, computer systems, programming with R, and data visualization effectively
• Increases abilities in decision support with data analysis, using IT applications
• Unit 1: Role of decision making, data analysis, identifying data analysis software
• Unit 2: Introduction to R, data types, operations and R functions
• Unit 3: Describes how to implement statistical R modeling and data visualization in business
• Unit 4: Application of business analytics and how to build business applications with R
• Unit 5: Introduction to business intelligence

MBA-110-VAC: Comprehensive Test (Semester I)

• Aims to guide students to good judgement and timely decisions
• Assessment process is a part of the program
• Understand logical reasoning in practical situations and enhances quantitative and skills and reading ability
• Mathematical reasoning
  • Number series
  • Codes
  • Letter Series
• Data and Graphical representation and interpretation
• To reason correctly and evaluate the knowledge
• Communication and reading comprehension

MBA-111-VAC: Universal Human Values and Ethics (Semester I)

• The aim is to develop ethical principles in the personal and professional contexts
• Explain human values and give examples in real life
• Unit 1: Human aspirations
• Unit 2: Instrument of the self
• Unit 3: Explores human relationship
• Unit 4: Harmony in the society
• Unit 5: Conduct of professional ethics

Semester II Subjects

• Financial Management
• Human Resource Management
• Production & Operations Management
• Business Environment & Sustainability
• Entrepreneurship Management
• Research Methodology
• Business Excel
• Basics of Taxation