MS (Business Administration) (as per HEC Revised Curriculum - 2012)

MS (Business Administration) is 30-36 credit hours program after 16 years of relevant

business education. The objective of this program is to understand the theoretical
underpinnings of the business activity and to provide the solution of various business
problems. This is a research oriented degree program. It offers different areas of
specialization such as marketing, management, and finance yet it is deemed necessary that
there is a certain bare minimum of strategic understanding of each core functional areas in
order to develop integrated decision making capability.
The broad structure of the program is as follows:

S. No. Type of courses No. of Courses Credit hours Total Credit

Hours
1 Core Courses 04 3 Hrs 12 Hrs
2 Specialization Courses 04 3 Hrs 12 Hrs
3 Research Thesis 6 Hrs 06 Hrs
Grand Total 30 Hrs

Note: The University may add two more courses either Core or Specialization to make
the total credit hours up to 36
S. No. Title Credit Hours
1. Advanced Research Methodology 3
2. Strategic Management 3
3. Strategic Finance 3
4. Strategic Marketing 3

Note: Since the list of elective courses is not given in HEC Revised Curriculum 2012.
So the elective courses were adopted from curriculum of BBA (Hons.) and MBA
approved and notified vide letter No .Acad/BOS-MBA/5295 dated 04-06-2010.
Areas of Specialization
1. Finance
2. Human Resource Management
3. Management
4. Marketing
Finance
 Corporate Finance
 International Finance
 Investment & Portfolio Management
 Banking and Credit Markets
 Topics in Capital Budgeting
 Risk Management and Insurance
Human Resource Management
 Current Issues in Human Resource Management
 Strategies in Human Resource Management
  Introduction to Corporate Human Resource Management
 Labour Laws and Industrial Relations
 Work and Organizational Psychology
Management
 Cases in Small Business & Entrepreneurship
 Topics in Quality Management
 Supply Chain Management
 Technology Management
 Current issues in Management
Marketing
 International Marketing
 Advanced Topics in Consumer Behaviour
 Products Management
 Current Issues in Marketing
 Topics in Brand Management