MBA colleges making lucrative offers to woo students
MBA education is becoming a trend among the aspiring professionals and among those who have completed their graduate degree or about to complete their graduation degree. But because of mushrooming of these colleges and lower standard of education large number of seats remain unbagged in many MBA colleges.
To overcome from this situation, Business management colleges seems to have taken the ‘business’ part of the course seriously adopting deceitful methods to fill the remaining seats in their various MBA programmes.
These B-Schools are making numerous promises to perspective students but education, some of the college managements have lured them and ensured admission in their respective colleges through web counselling.
These management institutes are offering them attendance waiter, cash transfer, smart phones and fee internal marks apart from ‘just write the annual exam only’. Those aspirants who are just looking for a degree to be added into their overall counts and not looking for knowledge get trapped in such kind of offers easily as it works out to their convenience as well.
Higher education officials claim that most of the students who are enrolled in these colleges, most of them are receiving fee reimbursement benefit scheme from these colleges. These colleges have apparently taken the student’s certificates and web option password to enter their colleges in the option list. Unlike other professional courses, MBA is taken by those professionals who want to improve their CVs and also status in the society. For such students staying away from classes and still getting a recognised degree is double treat. The director of MBA course of well-known college, said, “They are getting a degree by neither paying the fee nor attending classes.” He further added, “Reputed colleges insist on attendance, mandatory participation in seminars, submission of assignments and project reports have lost in the race with fewer admissions this year.”
The main reason behind this increasing trend is large number of seats going unbagged also the prime reason for these kind of activities. There are 68,598 seats in 893 colleges and of these 19,105 seats are still unbagged. Therefore, such college are using all sorts of methods to attract more students to get enrolled in these programmes.