Eligibility for Admission

The entry requirement in BBA applicant should have at least Intermediate or Higher Secondary Level (10+2) or Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL), or equivalent as recognized by Pokhara University. Submission of the complete application form, transcripts of all previous degrees (Intermediate / plus two and SLC / SEE ) and along with payment of admission test fee.  

Candidates should obtain at least D+ in each subject in Higher Secondary Level (10+2) or 45 percent or (1.8 CGPA) in the intermediate level.

In addition, the student must pass the entrance test conducted by the School of Business. The test is designed to assess the applicants’ ability in verbal and quantitative reasoning, data interpretation and proficiency in the English language.

Documents Required

The applicant is required to submit the following documents with the application form made available by the concerned college/school by paying a predetermined fee:

• Completed and signed BBA application form or online application as per instructed by School.

• Certificates of all degrees should be photocopied and submitted with proper attestation.
• Enrolment is conditional upon completion of all admission formalities including payment of all fees as determined by the college. Incomplete applications shall not be processed.
• The candidates who are given provisional admission under special conditions are required to submit all necessary documents within a month after their regular classes begin. A student who fails to do so will have his/her admission cancelled.

Admission opens once a year in August session. Total intake seat per section is 48. There is a provision of 20 % scholarship for deserving candidates. The school conducts entrance examination for fee-paying students and Central Office of Pokhara University (Scholarship Committee) conducts examination for the scholarship students.

Currently, the intake in BBA is as follows:

Fee-Paying: 77, Scholarship: 19, Total: 96

 CURRICULUM

The curriculum and course cycle of BBA program

Semester I

Semester II

Semester III

Semester IV

Semester V

Semester VI

Semester VII

Semester VIII

Concentration (12 Credit Hours)

Accounting (4 courses of 3.0 credits each)

(Any FOUR courses from the following list)

ACC 421 Taxation  

ACC 422 Auditing 

ACC 423 Advanced Management Accounting 

ACC 424 Accounting Information System 

ACC 425 Accounting Reports and Financial Statement Analysis

ACC 426 Special Topics in Accounting

Marketing

  MKT 441 Consumer Behaviour 

MKT 442 Advertising and Sales Promotion 

MKT 443 Sales Management 

MKT 444 Retail Marketing 

MKT 445 Service Marketing 

MKT 446 Foreign Trade Management 

Finance

FIN 431 Corporate Finance 

FIN 432 Microfinance 

FIN 433 Investment Management 

FIN 434 Bank Operations and Management 

FIN 435 Risk Management and Insurance 

FIN 436 Fundamentals of Financial Derivatives 

FIN 437 Financial Institutions and Markets 

Human Resource

HRM 451 Labour-Management Relations 

HRM 452 Contemporary Issues in HRM

HRM 453 Compensation and Benefits Management 

HRM 454 Negotiation and Conflict Management 

HRM 455 Performance Appraisal 

HRM 456 Human Resource Development 

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

SBE 461 Small Business Entrepreneurship 

SBE 462 Small Business Finance 

SBE 463 Rural Marketing 

SBE 464 Retail Management 

SBE 465 Social Entrepreneurship 

SBE 466 Venture Ideas and Models 

Electives (2 courses of 3.0 credits each)

(Any TWO courses from the following list)

The courses offered in this area are basically of non-business nature. These are offered to widen the knowledge base of students in social and development issues. 

NBE 391 Society and Politics 

NBE 392 Basic Econometrics 

NBE 393 Social Ecology and Environment 

NBE 394 Media and Public Relations 

NBE 395 Energy and Sustainable Development 

NBE 396 Management of Technology 

NBE 397 Population Dynamics and Development Challenges 

 NBE 398 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 

Internship Program

Students are required to go for business exposure to assigned organizations for a period of six weeks under the Internship Program. Students are required to present the Internship Project Report in the prescribed format. The evaluation of the Internship shall be based on a confidential report of the host organization (40 percent) and the presentation of the Internship Project Report in a seminar (60 percent).

Project Works

Students are required to do an independent capstone project that involves fieldwork and its empirical analysis. In the end, students are required to prepare a report of their project work in the prescribed format and submit to the authorized person/body. The objective of this project work is to develop students’ skills in research, particularly in areas of data collection, processing, analysis, and report writing. These reports will be evaluated by the supervisor and Project Works Committee.