Engineers Dominate JNU's First MBA Batch

Pratyush Roy

Updated On: July 26, 2019 02:30 pm IST

The first MBA Management and Entrepreneurship batch of Jawaharlal Nehru University has reported admissions by 40% of Engineering Background students and 33% of students with previous work experience.

JNU MBA in Management and Entrepreneurship Student Statistics

In the current year of 2019, the Atal Bihari Bajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship incepted the Masters in Business Management (MBA) course in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. It has welcomed its 1st batch in the specialisation of MBA in Management and Entrepreneurship.

Though there is a spectrum of students belonging to various backgrounds in the first batch, the number of Engineering students have been seen to be the dominant one. Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, the Vice-Chancellor of JNU, has informed that students from all streams such as basic science, commerce and philosophy came to study MBA in the specialisation but 40% of the total students belonged from various specialisations of engineering stream. A 1/3rd portion of the students also has previous work experiences.

Mr Jagadesh has informed that the school mainly focuses on seeding the concepts of management and entrepreneurship among the students of the B-School which is a constituent college of Jawaharlal Nehru University. He informed that JNU has felt a strong need to market the research findings that have been conducted in the university. The newly funded B-School will also help in that sector with quality education in the management field. The university has informed that the students of the MBA course will also be able to venture into other courses of the university such as social science, regional development and international relationships.

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JNU Vice-Chancellor has revealed that the course fees for Management in JNU is kept at 12 lakh rupees for general and 6lakh for SC and ST Candidates. He expects that the university will provide relief to the students from the expensive MBA courses in other universities who have recently touched an average of 20-30 lakh course fee marks. He added that the internal funds raised from the tuition fees will be used to invite external faculties and industry experts for providing industry oriented outlook in the specialisation.

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