Compared to education in general, business education is of recent origin in this part of the world. The advent of Business Education in our country can be traced back to the later half of 1960. Starting at the university level, the Business Education branched out to college and school levels. Now a days hundreds and thousands of secondary, post secondary and tertiary educational institutes offer courses for creating skill and knowledge for manning the business. These have given rise to shortages of business education teachers. The shortages are vividly felt when the questions of methodology of teaching business related subject arises. There is lack of any systematic and well-thought out endeavors to groom teachers and trainers with application of proper and sound methodology in our country, although many countries embarked on such effort by offering Master of Business Education Programme.
We earnestly feel that there is a latent demand for trained teachers for teaching business related subjects at educational institutes as well as in the business houses; and therefore Objectives of the MBE Programme are to
The program consists of 66 credit hours having eight (8) Foundation courses, four (4) Business courses, two (2) Elective courses and a practicum of one semester along with a dissertation having 18 credits as follows:
Each of the above Foundation courses consists of three (3) credit hours, and the Business and Elective courses are of four (4) credit hours. The practicum followed by a dissertation totals 18 credit hours.
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The program is open to any graduate but the duration of this program is 1 year for those having 16 years education with Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) or Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and 3 years teaching or work experience/Masters in Education (M.Ed.). For all other graduates, the duration is 1.5 to 2 years.
A student with a degree in Bachelor of Education (BE) and Master of Education (ME) or with Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) will be waived a maximum of six (6) and eight (8) courses respectively based on his/her previous completion of any of the courses in the curriculum of the previous degrees with satisfactory pass marks in that course.
