Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST, Karachi)

MBA (for students with 4 year BBA Degree)

FIRST YEAR

Fall Semester
BA 5102      Managerial Economics
BA 5103      Advanced Research Methods
BA 5104      Strategic Management
BA 5xxx      Elective-I
BA 5xxx      Elective-II

Spring Semester
BA 5133      Corporate Finance
BA 5203      Strategic Marketing
BA 5204      Managerial Accounting
BA 5xxx      Elective III
BA 5xxx      Elective IV

SECOND YEAR

Fall Semester / Spring Semester
BA 5109 Thesis (6 credit hours)

All courses may not be necessarily offered every year. Alternate courses may be substituted as and when needed.

MBA (for students with 4 year Professional Degree)

FIRST YEAR

Fall Semester
BA 5301      Financial Accounting
BA 5303      Management Principles
BA 5304      Business and Electronic Communication
BA 5305      Statistics and Mathematics for Business
BA 5306      Computer Orientation and Packages
BA 5404       Marketing Principles

Spring Semester
BA 5106      Marketing Management
BA 5206      Business Research Methods
BA 5302      Micro Economics
BA 5401      Introduction to Business Finance
BA 5403      Management Information Systems
BA 5411     Cost & Management Accounting

SECOND YEAR

Fall Semester
BA 5105      Financial Management
BA 5205      Human Resource Management
BA 5402      Macro Economics
BA 5xxx      Elective-I
BA 5xxx      Elective-II

Spring Semester
BA 5104      Strategic Management
BA 5211      Organizational Behavior
BA 5406      Entrepreneurship
BA 5xxx      Elective-III
BA 5xxx      Research Project (3 credit hours)

All courses may not be necessarily offered every year. Alternate courses may be substituted as and when needed.

MBA (for students with 3 year BBA Degree)

MBA FOUNDATION YEAR I

Fall Semester
BA 414      Business and Electronic Communication
BA 416      Organizational Behavior
BA 418     Cost Accounting
BA 419     Economics
BA 426     Entrepreneurship
BA 427     Business Ethics

Spring Semester
BA 312      Management Information Systems
BA 314      Personal Management
BA 324      Total Quality Management
BA 431      Financial Management
BA 434      Marketing Management
BA 443      Human Resource Management

FIRST YEAR

SECOND YEAR

Fall Semester / Spring Semester
BA 5109 Thesis (6 credit hours)

All courses may not be necessarily offered every year. Alternate courses may be substituted as and when needed.

MBA (for students with 3 year non-BBA Degree)

MBA FOUNDATION YEAR I

Fall Semester
BA 311       Basics of Business Communication
BA 411       Financial Accounting
BA 413       Management Principles
BA 412       Micro Economics
BA 415       Statistics and Mathematics for Business
BA 424       Marketing Principles

Spring Semester
BA 321       Computer Orientation and Packages
BA 414       Business & Electronic Communication
BA 418       Cost Accounting
BA 421       Introduction to Business Finance
BA 422       Macro Economics
BA 427       Business Ethics

FIRST YEAR

Fall Semester
BA 5106      Marketing Management
BA 5205      Human Resource Management
BA 5311      Personal Management
BA 5405      Statistical Inference
BA 5403      Management Information Systems

Spring Semester
BA 5105      Financial Management
BA 5204      Managerial Accounting
BA 5206      Business Research Methods
BA 5211      Organizational Behavior
BA 5412      Money & Banking Management

SECOND YEAR

Fall Semester
BA 5312      Corporate Social Responsibility
BA 5406      Entrepreneurship
BA 5xxx      Elective-I
BA 5xxx      Elective-II
BA 5xxx      Thesis (3 credits)

Spring Semester
BA 5102      Managerial Economics
BA 5104      Strategic Management
BA 5xxx      Elective-III
BA 5xxx      Elective-IV
BA 5xxx      Thesis (3 credits)

All courses may not be necessarily offered every year. Alternate courses may be substituted as and when needed.

MBA (for students with 2 year Bachelor Degree)

MBA FOUNDATION YEAR I

MBA FOUNDATION YEAR II

Fall Semester
BA 5106      Marketing Management
BA 5311      Personal Management
BA 5405      Statistical Inference
BA 5403      Management Information Systems
BA 5205      Human Resource Management
BA 5105      Financial Management

Spring Semester
BA xxxx      Law and Taxation / Pakistan Economy
BA 5406      Entrepreneurship
BA 5206      Business Research Methods
BA 5412      Money & Banking Management
BA 5211      Organizational Behavior
BA 5312      Corporate Social Responsibility

FIRST YEAR

SECOND YEAR

Fall Semester / Spring Semester
BA 5109 Thesis (6 credit hours)

All courses may not be necessarily offered every year. Alternate courses may be substituted as and when needed.

MBA / MS / Ph.D ELECTIVES

Management
BA 5111      Business Process Reengineering
BA 5112      Change Management
BA 5113      Industrial Management & Labor Relations
BA 5114      Leadership & Motivation Techniques
BA 5115      Operations Research
BA 5218      Organizational Strategy & Effectiveness
BA 5212     Petroleum Business Management & Risk Analysis
BA 5213      Project Management
BA 5214      Supply Chain Management

Human Resource Management
BA 5114      Leadership & Motivation Techniques
BA 5113      Industrial Management & Labor Relations
BA 5117      Performance Appraisal
BA 5216      Training & Development
BA 5128      Leadership Readiness
BA 5215      Recruitment & Selection
BA 5118      Compensation Management

Finance
BA 5132     Analysis of Financial Statement
BA 5235     Treasury & Funds Management
BA 5134     Derivatives
BA 5133     Corporate Finance
BA 5231     Islamic Banking & Finance
BA 5232     Portfolio & Investment Management
BA 5234     Security Analysis
BA 5238     Project Evaluation
BA 5135     Financial Markets & Institutions
BA 5137     International Banking
BA 5212     Petroleum Business Management & Risk Analysis
BA 5131    Advance Financial Management
BA 5119    Micro Finance

Marketing
BA 5121    Advertising
BA 5122    Brand Management
BA 5223    Marketing of Financial Services
BA 5129    Services Marketing
BA 5228    Retail Management
BA 5226    Pharmaceutical Marketing
BA 5227    Sales Management
BA 5123    Consumer Behavior
BA 5126    Export Marketing
BA 5219    Marketing Research
BA 5224    Media Planning
BA 5127    Global Marketing
BA 5124    Customer Relationship Management
BA 5125     Ethics in Marketing
BA 5225     Personal Selling

Economic Policy and Management
EM 5101   Research Methodology
EM 5102   The Government and Legal Environment of Business
EM 5103   The Political Economy of the Public Sector
EM 5104   Privatization: An International Perspective
EM 5201   Foreign Aid Management & Analysis
EM 5202   Power Leadership
EM 5203   Theory and Practice of Public Policy
EM 5204   Project Planning and Evaluation
EM 5301   Public Finance
EM 5302   Governance
EM 5303   Managing Public Money (Budgeting & Fiscal Policy)
EM 5304   Policy Making
EM 5401   Marketing Public Services
EM 5402   Managing in the Information Age
EM 5403   Tax Policy and Business Strategy
EM 5404   Managing Projects and Organizational Change
EM 5501   Management of Human Resources
EM 5502   Local Government Management
EM 5503   Public Policy Analysis (Advanced)
EM 5504   Concepts and Techniques of Community Participation
EM 5601   Poverty Reduction and Development Management
EM 5602   Managing the Nonprofit Organization
EM 5603   Commercial Laws
EM 5604   Intellectual Property Rights Laws & WTO/TRIPS
EM 6601   Official Statistics
EM 6602   Population Studies
EM 6603   Agricultural Policy
EM 6604   Econometrics

Full time academic load is six/ five credit courses. Day students are required to take a minimum of six/five courses and evening students are required to take a minimum of five/four courses to continue their studies.
All students are required to register for full load in the first semester.