BBA (HONORS)

If you’re an educational professional who are looking to progress into management and consultancy, or an educational planning or development role, this is the best degree for you.

The Bachelor of Business Administration (Honors) is a professional and comprehensive management that provides conceptual knowledge and in-depth exposure to functional areas in business management including accounting, marketing, finance, management, entrepreneurship and MIS along with special emphasis on leadership, social awareness, creativity and innovation. The program employs the latest approaches in experiential learning to develop skills for interpersonal communication, team work, foreign languages and managing diversity. Students learn to think critically and to apply conceptual knowledge to real world challenges and design solutions. Graduates of the BBA program distinguish themselves with their personal and professional excellence as managers and entrepreneurs in their areas of specialization. They are well rounded professionals known as “doers” and “go-getters” and are in great demand in the industry. BBA is a four-year program which requires completion of 144 credit hours of course work and 2 credit hours of internship in a firm approved by the Institute. A student is required to complete 48 courses of 3 credit hours each in order to meet the degree requirements. Six credit hours are structured into the program for a foreign language course. Students must maintain a CGPA of 2.5 for the conferment of the degree.

To promote lifelong learning at IoBM, the program emphasizes Experiential Learning (EL) and developing readers and writers. The college’s mission is reflected through courses designated with a suffix R, W or E in the program structure:

• An experiential learning course (E) requires an intensive experiential learning project focusing on a real life problem in a real life setting.
• A writing-intensive course (W) has a substantial writing component and requires multiple writing assignments to be submitted at designated times during a semester.
• A reading-intensive course (R) has a substantial reading component and requires multiple reading assignments that are evaluated at designated times during a semester.

Students are provided with general business courses as part of their studies and are required to select five electives and a capstone project from the following specializations:

• Accounting*
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance and Banking
• Human Resource Management
• Industrial Management
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing
• Management
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management

*Students must take a minimum load of twelve credit hours (four courses) or a maximum load of eighteen credit hours (six courses) in a semester. In order to obtain the BBA (Honors) degree in four years, they need to complete twelve courses in a year. Full load of six courses can be taken each in the Fall and Spring semesters with an option for fewer courses in the latter and making up the shortfall in the summer session.