The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has banned fresh admissions into MBA courses under part-time mode from this academic year to check several management institutions from admitting freshers by collecting huge fees. The Council ban will hit working professionals, who rely only on part-time MBA courses to enhance their career prospects. They have opposed the latest norms arguing that the AICTE cannot deny them a chance to obtain an MBA degree only because some institutions were flouting the norms.

Several management institutions and business schools across the state offer part-time management programmes exclusively for working professionals. These courses attract large number of working professionals as it allows them to attend MBA classes in the evening while working during the day. Moreover, several institutions allow working employees to complete the MBA degree in a year if they have work experience ranging from six months to one year in any company even though the duration of the course is two years.

Due to these factors about 20,000 working professionals enrol for these part-time courses across the state every year, according to official estimates. “It is not fair to deny a chance for working professionals to obtain an MBA degree under part-time mode. The AICTE should take necessary measures to check errant institutions instead of imposing a blanket ban on such programmes,” said Mr S. Praveen, a sales executive in a general insurance company.

With a boom in the corporate sector since 2004, the employment opportunities for candidates with MBA qualification increased resulting in demand for part-time MBA programmes. Several universities and B-schools launched these programmes to cash in on the boom.






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