BBA course at Christ University helps students develop their entrepreneurial instincts
A BBA course at Christ University, Bengaluru, helps students hone and develop their entrepreneurial instincts.
Atul Gaikwad, a 19-year-old from Pune, spent three months preparing for the entrance exam for the undergraduate course in Business Administration at Christ University. With thousands appearing for the exam and only 80 seats, Gaikwad failed to make the cut and is distraught.
"It has become one of our most successful undergraduate programmes over the years," says Father Abraham V.M., Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Christ University.
The course has enough of a reputation for companies such as Accenture, Wipro Tech, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Northern Trust, Amazon and Google to visit the campus every year to recruit young talent.
The BBA curriculum at Christ focuses on assignments and project-based study more than theory. A useful exercise is the end-to-end management of byproducts out of the recycled waste on the university campus. "We want our students to understand how businesses are evolving," says Professor Jain Mathew, HoD, Management Studies. "For this, we involve the private sector in a big way."
"We have had outstanding students,"says Fr Abraham proudly. "They have gone on to become civil servants, lawmakers and law enforcement officers." Even actors, be it Malayalam star Rima Kallingal or Tamil star Gautham Karthik.
