About the Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Master of Business Administration (MBA) program provides an opportunity for individuals to prepare for managerial positions in today’s complex and dynamic environment. The program places strong emphasis on the application of business theory to the realities of the business world. It also recognizes the demands of an increasing, competitive, multicultural economy characterized by rapid technological innovation and superior product and service quality demands. The MBA program consists of a prescribed pattern of Graduate courses. The entire program is based on a common core of courses, which examine the functions of the executive and the environment of the administrator. Beyond this core, the student may choose to study in some depth any of a number of particular fields in business administration and economics.

Goals and Objectives of the program

 Learning Outcome

Career Opportunities

The MBA program is widely acclaimed and almost universally recognized as an academic discipline to prepare students for assuming responsibilities of management in either business, non-business or even government organizations.

In advanced countries like the USA, UK, and USSR the MBA degree offers higher career opportunities to engineers, architects, researchers, merchandisers and even physicians. The universal emphasis is to equip the degree (MBA) holder to meet the challenges of resource constraints and find new avenues for development.

Now-a-days in every society, MBA degree holders get preference over others in any organization that requires group endeavor. In Bangladesh also, the giant organizations like banks, industrial groups, infrastructure developers, tourism and hospitability organizers and even NGOs prefer to employ MBAs in managerial positions.

ISU authority is fully aware of the program needs and is highly committed to produce such MBAs who will compete not only nationally (within the country) but also internationally.

Admission Requirements

Admission to the MBA program is selective. To apply for admission, students must fulfill the requirements outlined below: 

Major Areas

*Note: Under the MBA program we have special arrangements for (i) executives and (ii) BBA graduates. The candidates belonging to these categories will be allowed course waiver based on an acceptable policy followed by most of the private universities in our country. The said policy is as under:

(i) MBA for Executives (EMBA): A genuine executive (both government and non-government) having working experience for a continuous period of at least 03 (three) years after BSc. Engineering/ MBBS/ Honors in any subject or at least 05 (five) years after degree (pass course) will be allowed to enroll for the program. They will have to complete a total of 51 credit hours for the EMBA degree. 

(ii) MBA for BBA graduates: it is a regular practice that the BBA graduates have to complete usually 36 credits for the MBA degree. The department of Business Administration will select the required courses to be offered, usually within 02 (two) semesters.

Degree Requirements

The degree requirements will be as follows:

(a) Completion of 69 credit hours

(b) Completion of the project with at least a ‘C’ grade

(c) Passing of all courses individually and maintaining a minimum CGPA of 2.00.

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List of Core Courses

List of Major Courses

MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies

About the Program

Nowadays graduate education in English is developing dramatically. This is influenced by the last decade's remarkable ferment in literary and cultural studies. ISU is keeping pace with theoretical and practical developments in both areas and puts particular efforts into developing an innovative range of offerings at the MA level. The program offers students the opportunity to enhance their skills of reading, writing, research, and teaching with the courses that encompass the wide range of contemporary English and cultural studies.

Objectives of the Program

The program aims to give students a solid foundation for building critical and cultural awareness, and open unfamiliar worlds and exciting new ways of thinking before them. The Master of Arts in English Literature and Cultural Studies, therefore, emphasizes research and the application of various critical approaches to literature, composition, and cultural studies.

Program Learning Outcomes

An important role of English departments across the world has been to create interpretations of the texts of various historical periods, including the present. Accordingly, the courses of the MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies at ISU are designed aiming at the certain learning outcomes. Upon the completion of the program, the students will be able to:

interpret texts as part of a complex web of historical conditions and relationships;

produce papers on  major literary texts alongside nonfiction, functional texts, and public documents;

effectively teach and critically appreciate comparative texts that highlight differences across literature and culture as well as the texts of the Western canon; and 

evaluate film, television, and other storytelling media alongside conventional texts.

Career Opportunities

The program is intended to expose students to varied facets of English literature and cultural Studies. This is specifically designed to create diverse professionals including well-trained and well-equipped English language creative professionals and teachers who are increasingly demanded both locally and globally. Many students can also use the degree for professional enhancement, or doctoral study. Apart from these, the graduates can choose their jobs in Bangladesh civil and military services, banks, NGO’s, and various corporate levels. 

Admission Requirements

To apply for admission, students must fulfill the requirements outlined below:

Successful completion of at least a Bachelor’s degree in English from a reputed university with minimum CGPA of 2.50.

Major Concentrations

The program deals with the courses on major concentrations ranging from the literary and cultural studies arena developed in different decades. The courses include:

South Asian Diaspora and Its Literature

Latin American Literature in Translation

Postmodernism in Literature

Postcolonial Literature

Studies in American Literature

Film and Literature

Literary Stylistics

Creative Writing

Program Structure

Degree Requirements

The requirements to complete the MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies will depend on the successful completion of eleven courses along with seminar presentation(s), viva voce, and dissertation worth 38 credits that are intended to make the students skilled in essential and related areas of English literature and cultural studies. 

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