Business in itself is an art which rules the world. The richest person on this planet is one who is associated with business. There are an immense amount of careers in management, finance, accounts and that is what a B.B.A. degree prepares us for.
“You lost because you were not playing to win, you were playing to not lose.”
– Rachel Chu (Crazy Rich Asians)
Those who obtain this degree are more prepared to face the business world because this degree bestows us with a good amount of significant knowledge and experience regarding how business works. It is usually a four year degree (it is for three years in some countries such as England) and requires a hundred and twenty credits of undergraduate work just after passing out of high school that is after class twelfth.
The main subjects to be studied in the curriculum are business- analytics, communication, corporate finance, marketing etc. Some students pursue this degree to begin their own business and create an individual impact on the world of money while others pursue to help and play a role in a company or even a new start up.
Some even pursue it out of pure interest with the aim of getting some knowledge and experience. Studying subjects such as history, economics, literature, core mathematics, accounting and statistics are said to be beneficial pursuing this degree.
Studying business is extremely serious and therefore, studying business requires an innovative thought process, creativity as well as academic discipline. Achieving a degree in Bachelors of Business Administration is believed to be the same as completing the first step successfully in professional business, onto hopefully greater ventures.
This degree gives us both general as well as a specific kind of knowledge. It tells about the primitive; basic and central parts of a company and how all different factors are more or less relative to one another. We also need to choose a certain business-related academic discipline for gaining specialization.
Obtaining this degree will expand the way the brain of a student functions and promote it to the way a businessman sees the world. It holds the power of making us more practical in our approach towards life, improve the way we network and talk to everyone surrounding us, choose our surrounding with care.
Most importantly, it teaches us how to make decision which will add a lot of value to our lives. All these qualities are important if one wishes to lead a successful business career. It comprises of the basics of business management.
There are many variants to this degree such as Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration or Bachelor of Science in Business Administration(BSBA) which is a quantitative part of the complete course. This makes the course syllabus more mathematically dominant and analytical.
During the course of this degree, there will be many different types of projects such as case projects, presenting those case projects, giving correct answers to the questions about that particular case projects followed by internships. Some students also visit industries and see the way the machines work and interact with the people who control those very machines.
The best worldwide colleges for pursuing a Bachelors in Business Administration are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California and University of Pennsylvania.
The best colleges in India for pursuing a BBA are Christ University, Madras Christian College, Mount Carmel College Autonomous, Maharaja Sujarmal Institute of Technology and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies.
One important part of this course is understanding and working on various types of case study. It helps the students enhance their researching skills as it deals with the detailed research of a particular topic in order to understand it in a better way.
If we are able to delve deep into that topic and understand it well, it will automatically help in achieving success. These cases are always taken from real life because most students study business in order to make the real world a better and more successful place.
A case study can be of any topic ranging from any specific type of individual, group, organization, community or even faith, belief systems and observations. Mostly, case study is practiced in social science and natural science. BBA students pursue case study as a major part of their course because it also helps in generating theories and come up with hypotheses.
For example, when the students from Narayana Business School studied about ‘Darwin’s Theory of Evolution’, they came up with the economical hypotheses which was very valuable to the state of Gujarat. After theory construction, case study also helps in formulating conceptual clarity. The more we study a particular topic, the better we are able to understand it and our vision gets all the clearer which is important for business aspirants.
Another significant part of the BBA course is successfully going for a business internship. Interns mainly focus on gaining knowledge and experience and that is what makes it a subset of a job.
They may participate in the analysis of a particular market rate or devise a particular sales strategy. Basically, interns are supposed to follow the instructions of what their supervisors ask them to do and try to fulfill it to the best of their ability. This results in producing a diligent work ethic.
The future of this course promises to make the students great administrators. Administration in itself is a mixture of reviewing and supervising the how a particular business is getting managed, how well it is supervised and after all the hard work, how profitable and beneficial the result is.
This requires organizational skills at its highest peak and common goals and objectives of the company must be achieved at a particular time rate. This includes different kinds of jobs such as how employees are being selected to a company and checking if they are properly trained. A business administrator is a leader of organizational change in a company.
By: Shreeja Mukherjee
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