MBA

At the preliminary look at NIBM, it is basically an independent Institute and no mention of any accreditation. I am not sure of the distance education and the effectiveness for you as you did not mention about your education and experience. If you notice we have ISB which is also an independent Institute. However, the acceptance of ISB course to companies are much more than the certificate, reason being the excellence in education is provided by the sheer ability of the faculty, promoters who created business world. You need to understand the Ability of the faculty, placement record, teaching methodology, Industry interface before choosing any MBA. I would advise you to review some of the other Distance Education programs which are well established and providing contact classes with good quality faculty.

M.Phil. in HRM after MBA

Question: I am an MBA graduate from Osmania University in 2005. I have no working experience. I want to do M.Phil. in HRM or Business Management. I prefer distance or online. Could you please provide me the details about M.Phil. in HRM or Business Management.

Answer: Since you did not have the working experience and you wanted to do M.Phil. which is generally full-time to pursue. Any M.Phil. and Ph.D. done distance or online has no meaning and proved to be below standard and UGC has clearly mentioned that the open universities would not offer any such courses. However, I would suggest you can get into some teaching assignment part-time and pursue with OU or any other universities which are offering the same.

Question: I had completed my MBA in JNTU with finance and marketing specializations. I like to work in finance departments. Please tell me some short term courses which would help me in getting job. Shall I do fico course?

Answer: Instead of looking for a course you can approach for an opportunity to work as a trainee with consulting companies in the financial advisory to Organizations. Alternatively you identify people working in Finance Departments (through your seniors or personal network. Also use social networking sites like – www.linkedin.com to identify and make friendship online). You can approach Small and Medium Size organizations have a specific finance department who would require MBA-Finance. Doing a FICO course may not help. Otherwise you can understand the SAP-FICO from your friends, which would help to use the same if the finance department where you work, has the software. Finance department of companies are basically users hence you should have appreciation only.

PG in NGO Management:

Question: I completed my graduation and I am interested to study PG in NGO management. Please give me details of institutes offering this course in regular and distance mode. What kind of opportunities would be there for this course?

Answer: Very nice to see your focus on the NGO segment. Its by far is the largest growing segment in India and across the world with the Social Responsibility and consciousness of Businesses. There are lakhs of NGO working in India alone. Govt. also funding many of the initiatives through the private partners (on AIDS, Education, Health, Employment generation etc.,) You would have opportunities to Start an NGO or join any NGO’s in supporting social initiatives, fund raising, operational management etc., You can always pursue an MSW-Master of Social Work offered by many Universities across the country including distance education. MA – Social Work offered by TISS, Mumbai and MSW at Madras School of Social Work are well known in this field.