Need guidance to choose a mba course

Hello Savitha,

Welcome to CE. You'll have to answer couple of questions here -

1. Are you looking at full time course or part time?
2. Could you give us overall view of the MBA in E-Business?
3. Be extra careful about usefulness of MBA-General. Unless you have specific aims for MBA studies, you shouldn't go for MBA! What are your specific goals for which you wish to opt for MBA?

To answer your questions:

1. What is the scope E-Business in today's market condition?

Answer: Depends on many factors. By the time you get MBA in E-Business, the situation could be completely different from what it is today. Right now, as far as I know, there aren't many jobs in E-Business. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

2. Which of the above courses would suite me in my career growth?

Answer: MBA might help you get a new direction in your career. Usually, MBA from a reputed institute helps you get placed in companies that offer MBA-Specific roles. A software company may not be able to offer any new roles that require MBA.

I think better answers will follow once you share more information with us.

Hi _Big_K,

1. Are you looking at full time course or part time?

2. Could you give us overall view of the MBA in E-Business?
3. Be extra careful about usefulness of MBA-General. Unless you have specific aims for MBA studies, you shouldn't go for MBA! What are your specific goals for which you wish to opt for MBA?

Hi _Big_K,

Thanks for the quick response.
Please find my answers to your questions inline.

1. Are you looking at full time course or part time?
- M looking for a correspondence course.

2. Could you give us overall view of the MBA in E-Business?
- I am pasting the syllabus of E-business and General in Systems
M.B.A(E – Business)
First Year:
Management Concepts
Marketing Management
Human Resource Management
Financial and Management Accounting
E – Commerce
Database Management System
Management Information System
Software Project Management

Second Year:
Financial Management
Strategic Management
E - Commerce: Application and Securities
Internet and Java Programming
Advanced Web Development and Design Tools
Enterprise Resource Planning
Project Work and viva – voce
(OR)
Global Marketing
Structured System Analysis and Design

M.B.A(General)
First Year
- Principles of Management
- Financial and Management Accounting
- Managerial Economics
- Legal Environment of Business
- Organizational Behavior
- Written Analysis and Communication
-Business Policy and Strategic Management
- Research Methodology

Second Year
- Human Resource Management
- Marketing Management
- Financial Management
- Production and Materials Management
- International Business
- Project Management and Entrepreneurship
- Project Study & Viva – Voce

(OR)
Systems
Personal Productivity Tools
Information Technology

3. Be extra careful about usefulness of MBA-General.
Unless you have specific aims for MBA studies, you shouldn't go for MBA! What are your specific goals for which you wish to opt for MBA?
- I am a software Engineer and I want to be in the management side like a Project Manager. For which, I feel I need MBA to improve my management skills.

Regards,
Savitha

- I am a software Engineer and I want to be in the management side like a Project Manager. For which, I feel I need MBA to improve my management skills.

Thanks for the answers. I believe your aim makes it much easier to answer. Looking at the course contents, it's going to be bit tricky to select between the two courses.

Since you imagine yourself in the role of a project manager in the software field, the 'General MBA' options might be more useful to you. It specifically targets general project management. From my own experience, a manager in the software industry need not be proficient in coding or technical aspects of the project [ dabate, anyone? 😀 ]. Since you already have 3 years of experience, you'll have a very good domain knowledge over the next two years. So that when you step into the manager role, you'll be efficiently handle the technical aspects of the project you'll be handling.

You'll need to learn more of management technics. Major part of manager's work in a software field is about data analysis & communication; than technical.

E-Business, on the other side, looks more interesting as it's got technical topics. However, in my opinion, they might not be very relevant to your work. I suggest that you should talk to current students of E-Business management & friends/contacts who've already taken the course. Talk about usefulness of the course with them, it should make the picture clearer to you.

Friendly tip: Correspondence courses aren't very effective. Few of my own friends have been repainting after completing the course.

Thanks a lot Big K..... 😀