ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test (IBSAT) : Programmes

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ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test (IBSAT)

Introduction

Programmes

Eligibility

Application Procedure

Institutes

Exam Date 2025

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MBA Programmes - It is a two year program which equips students with strong functional skills and prepares them to apply these skills to various management settings in real life.

The 2 year course is spread over four semesters and comprises of 27 courses (compulsory courses-19 and elective courses - 8), summer internship program, business research project and soft skill labs(3 in no).

The students also have the choice of pursuing two optional free elective courses.

The program structure is as follows:

Semester -I Marketing Management-1 Quantitative Methods Financial Management-I Organizational Behavior Managerial Economics IT for Managers Accounting for Managers Soft Skills Lab-1	Semester - II Marketing Management-II Operations Management Financial Management-II Human Resource Management Macroeconomics & Bus. Env. Business Research Methods Enterprise Solutions for Business Legal Environment of Business Soft Skills Lab-II
Summer Internship Program
Semester - III Business Strategy-I Management Control and Information Systems Elective - I Elective - II Elective - III Elective - IV Optional Free Elective - I Soft Skills Lab - III	Semester - IV Business Strategy - II Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Elective - V Elective - VI Elective - VII Elective - VIII Optional Free Elective - II Business Research Project
The program structure above is tentative and subject to change.

The Executive PG Program- It is a 1-year, full-time, campus based program designed for executives with 3 or more years of work experience and aims to enhance the skills and competency levels of young executives and prepare them to take up responsibilities of senior management. All students admitted to Executive PG Program are required to go through preparatory self study module which consists of following courses.

1) Introduction to Management
2) Managerial Effectiveness
3) Business Environment
4) Basics of Accounting
5) Introduction to Quantitative Methods
6) IT & Systems

The regular program is divided into eight terms of six weeks duration each, in addition to which special modules are offered for leadership training.

Term I 1) Financial Statement Analysis 2) Managerial Economics 3) Marketing Insights	Term II 1) QM for Managerial Decisions 2) Organizational Behavior 3) Business Law
Term III 1) Accounting for Decision Making 2) Human Capital Mgmt 3) IT Strategy	Term IV 1) Financial Management 2) Operations Management 3) Project Management
Term V 1) Corporate & Business Strategy 2) Elective I 3) Elective II	Term VI 1) Management Control & Information Systems 2) Elective III 3) Elective IV
Term VII 1) Corporate & Business Strategy 2) Elective I 3) Elective II	Term VIII 1) Elective VII 2) Elective VIII 3) Elective IX

Elective Programmes

Elective Programmes for both MBA & Executive PG Program are the same.

The students can pursue elective courses in Marketing, Finance, Management, Operations and Information Technology. Each student must choose eight electives. While four of these electives must be from a single stream, the others can be from any stream. To specialize in a particular stream, a student has to pursue at least four electives from that stream. Thus a student can acquire a dual specialization by choosing four electives from one stream and another four from a second stream. The program offers further flexibility in terms of two optional free electives, which are not an essential part of the graduation requirement but can be opted for by interested students.

Marketing 1) Marketing Research 2) Consumer Behavior 3) Industrial Marketing 4) Services Marketing 5) Marketing Communication Strategy 6) Sales & Distribution Management 7) International Marketing 8) Strategic Marketing Management 9) Product Management 10) Retail Management 11) Brand Management 12) Customer Relationship Management	Finance 1) Management Accounting 2) Financial Risk Management 3) Strategic Financial Management 4) Mergers & Acquisitions 5) Security Analysis 6) Portfolio Management & Mutual Funds 7) Investment Banking & Financial Services 8) International Finance & Trade 9) Management of Financial Institutions
Banking 1) Overview of Banking 2) Banking Service Operations 3) Retail Banking 4) Corporate Banking 5) Rural Banking & Microfinance 6) Treasury Management 7) Credit Management 8) Wealth Management	Insurance 1) Risk & Insurance 2) Insurance Law & Regulations 3) Life Insurance 4) General Insurance 5) Actuarial Principles 6) Health Insurance 7) Insurance Operations 8) Underwriting Management 9) Re-Insurance 10) Claims Management
Investment Analysis 1) Financial Markets 2) Financial Statement Analysis 3) Equity Valuation & Analysis 4) Fixed Income Valuation & Analysis 5) Derivatives Valuation & Analysis 6) Portfolio Management 7) Mutual and Other Funds 8) Integrated Case Studies	Accounting 1) Accounting Standards & US-GAAP 2) Taxation - I 3) Auditing - I 4) Taxation - II 5) Auditing - II 6) Economic Legislation - II 7) Advanced Management Accounting
Human Resource 1)HR Planning 2) Strategic HR Management 3) Managing Knowledge Workers 4) Global HR 5) Industrial Relations 6) OD Diagnosis & Interventions 7) Performance Management & Reward Systems 8) Training and Development 9) Leadership Skills & Change Management 10) Employment Laws	Entrepreneurship 1) Entrepreneurial Development 2) Entrepreneurial Finance 3) Innovation & Entrepreneurship 4) Managing & Growing a New Business
International Business 1) Accounting Standards & USGAAP 2) International Banking 3) International Business Environment 4) Management of MNCs 5) Global Capital Markets	Operations 1) Services Operations Management 2) Lean Manufacturing Management 3) Quality Management 4) Operations Research 5) Operations Strategy 6) Business Modeling & Simulation 7) Production & Materials Management 8) Supply Chain Management 9) Project Management
IT 1) Structured System Analysis & Design 2) Software Engineering & Quality Management 3) Relational Database Application Development 4) Computer Communication Security & Disaster Recovery 5) IT Enabled Services 6) Business Intelligence with SAS 7) Data Warehousing 8) Data Mining