Master of Management Studies is an unique
Management degree offered by BITS. It is an integrated four year
course, equivalent to traditional MBA. As far as up to my knowledge,
in India just two universities offer this degree, one of them being BITS, the other is Bombay (Mumbai?) university.
If you are interested to know more about
MMS at BITS, you can follow this link: www.bits-pilani.ac.in/faculty/mms.
As a student doing my Compulsory Discipline
Courses (CDCs), it may be apt to give my opinion on the course
structure. In MMS, unlike MBA students, we do core science courses
like Electronics, Chemistry, Physics Mathematics and also Computer
Programming. This enables us to have a commanding knowledge on
whatever work we take up, in any sort of company. We as a manager, need
not depend on any of our subordinates or Engineers to know the basic
operations carried out in the company we are employed, and as we have
technical knowledge about the work going on, we can establish proper
understanding between management and the engineers at our companies and thus
lead towards fruitful results. Often this is the point at which many
managers, to my knowledge, fail.
We do all these science courses with the
other engineering students, in our first and second years. During
our third year we will be doing CDCs which actually deal with the subjects
of Management. These include Management Information Systems,
Management Accounting, Marketing Management, Organizational
Behavior, Human Resource Development, Corporate Planning and Financial
Management. These keep us on par with the MBA students in knowledge
about management subjects and the science courses which we did in the
first two years keeps us at an outstanding position.
In our fourth year we will be doing six
electives, which a student can choose according to his interest.
Generally, as the trend now is for software, students opt more software
electives than management electives. These include Graphical User
Interface, Computer Graphics, Computer Networks, Network Programming,
Internetworking Technologies and Object Oriented Programming (using C++).
These are the common software electives which management guys generally
opt for.
In addition to these, we have Center for
Software Development offering courses in emerging areas of computer
software. It offers courses like Programming in Java (IBM Visual Age
for Java), Advanced Java, VC++, VB, Multimedia Technology, and web
designing courses like Track-1, Track-2 and Track-3 dealing with HTML,
ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, JSP, CGI, Perl, DHTML and XML. Lot of
guys even do these courses.
Coming to placement opportunities; we had
almost 100% placement during the past 7 years (that's what I could manage
to know, from my seniors). But often we are placed in software jobs,
rather than Managerial jobs. The reason for this is quite simple.
The trend is so, and guys are doing more software electives and are
fairing well in that field. Of course, the Management degree which
we pursue here shall be helpful in getting promoted to managerial
positions in those software firms!!
To know about the actual course structure,
faculty and other information please follow this link: www.bits-pilani.ac.in/faculty/mms