Delhi University (DU) is all set to start two new MBA (Masters of Business Administration) courses under Faculty of Commerce and Business in Delhi School of Economics (DSE). This would be first time that an MBA program is being promoted by DU, outside the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS).
The courses, MBA (International Business) and MBA (Human Resource and Organisational Development), are on the agenda of soon-to-be-held academic council meeting of the university on 21 June. The university will do away with its existing courses of Masters in International Business (MIB) and Masters in Human Resource and Organisational Development (MHROD), in order to facilitate the introduction of MBA courses.
The department of commerce and the university had various communications with the UGC (University Grants Commission) to implement the course. The UGC stated that MBA is a UGC specified degree and the university may award an MBA degree but with specialisation in parenthesis, for example MBA (IB) and MBA (HROD). Therefore, to resolve the issue, a meeting by the department of commerce was called upon in which it was decided that MIB and MHROD be restructured to MBA (IB) and MBA (HR & OD), respectively.
Both the courses (MIB and MHROD) were well received by the industry till date. However, in order to improve the course curriculum and impart the knowledge on contemporary developments taking place in the domain of International Business and Human Resources & Organizational Development, a need had arisen to revise the course structure, which was subsequently executed’, Jai Prakash Sharma, head of department of Commerce.
In order to facilitate the course revision process, a four-member committee was formed for proposing the new course structure. The committee held about six meetings in order to improve and create the new structure. A special meeting was also arranged with the alumni of the department, well placed in industrial sector, to seek their valuable inputs for the curriculum.