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PU to start long-distance MBA courses this session

Chandigarh, April 24, 2008
Express news service
Express India

After the High Court did away with NRI-sponsored and industry-sponsored seats, Panjab University is coming up with new courses to compensate for the lost revenue. These new courses include a distance learning MBA programme and a new department, University Institute for Applied Management Sciences that will offer industry-based management courses.
The new department as well as the distance-learning MBA courses will become operational this academic session.

Prof A K Saihjpal, in-charge of the department, said, “The idea behind these industry-based courses is to make the management experts available for the industries. There are many industry-based jobs and these courses will help them and the students.”

PU officials claimed that the department will have a tri-semester pattern on the lines of the Indian Insitutes of Management.

The distance-learning MBA programme has been designed keeping in mind the self-employed individuals and the Indians settled abroad.

Saihjpal said, “This course would help self-employed students enhance their academic qualifications even further. It will also give Indian students based abroad an option to study in their own country.”

While the distance learning MBA programme will be for two years, the rest of the post-graduate diploma courses would be for one year.

Admissions for both the department and the distance learning MBA course will be through an entrance exam conducted by the University.