The aspiration for MBA degree is propelled by the willingness of a candidate to serve the corporate sector in various functions and capacities. Corporate sector values knowledge, skills and attitude of a candidate. Hence the mode in which the MBA degree is obtained is not of so much importance. Rather it is the performance of a candidate in a corporate that takes him to places. The MBA market is crowed with many players. Some of them offer run of the mill stuff and consequently the candidate is at a loss. There are some institutes offering MBA degrees through distance education such as IGNOU, ICFAI, Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, etc.

There are some candidates who might think that part time MBA is useless. It is indeed a good thought to acquire higher qualification by pursuing MBA degree. Your impression that part time MBA is useless is not true. Management is a profession and corporate values you and your education based on your performance on job. You can choose a good institute to pursue part-time MBA. Before you take your admission, please check the program structure, faculty profile, placement support offered, etc.

It is a good thought to pursue MBA program from a good university. There are lots of universities that offer MBA program on a distance mode. It depends on your objectives of pursuing the MBA. Assuming that you are interested in good amount of learning, you can look at the ICFAI University, Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning, Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, etc.

It is indeed a good choice to do MBA after engineering degree. Basically MBA offers specializations in marketing, finance, human resources and information technology streams. From the placement perspective, specialization in marketing and finance are recommended. MBA with specialization in information technology is not favored by the industry. Specialization in HR courses is interesting, but the placement opportunities are restricted. Hence you need to choose your specialization based on your passion and placement interests.

A student of Sciences asked… ‘I am often hearing about MBA CFA programme. What is this CFA programme? If we join the dual programme, is it helpful for our future. Please give details about MBA CFA course. By joining this programme can we get good job and good salary in future?’

Here is the answer to this doubt: The Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) program is offered world-wide by the CFA Institute, Virginia, USA. The CFA charter is the designation one can earn after successful completion of the CFA Program. It is a self-study program of three years duration and includes three levels of examinations.
In India, the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Tripura is mandated to give CFA charter. The university also offers MBA-CFA dual masters degree program. It consists of two streams viz., MBA and CFA. The MBA stream is designed to provide both a portfolio of strong functional skills and the ability to apply, adapt, synthesize and integrate those skills into different management settings. The CFA stream provides an in-depth understanding of financial analysis. The knowledge of which can be applied in banking and financial services sector and practice areas like strategic finance, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and consulting.

Through the Dual Masters Program, the students may acquire two career-oriented professional qualifications in management and financial analysis and also save precious time. Instead of the normal duration of 4 years (two years for MBA and two years for CFA) the students of the Dual Masters Program may complete the same in 27 months. Bachelor’s degree in English medium (any discipline) with 55 percent and above aggregate marks are eligible to register for this course. CAs / CWAs (with a bachelor degree) are also eligible to apply and they also get waivers in some subjects.