MBA Prospectus-2014 - IGNOU

of the year respectively) on payment of a fee of `1500/- per course through Demand Draft drawn in favour
of IGNOU payable at the city of the Regional Centre. The application should be addressed to the
Regional Director, IGNOU Regional Centre of your region.
8) Change of specialisation stream is not permitted.
MAXIMUM DURATION IN MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
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The maximum duration of the MBA Programme is 8 (eight) years. Thereafter, students seeking
‘fresh admission’ for completion of the left over course(s) will not be required to qualify the OPENMAT
Entrance Test again. However, this facility is available only once.
If a student fails to successfully complete all the requirements for the award of Degree/Diploma in another
8 year duration (i.e. 8+8=16 years), then s/he will have to seek admission afresh by qualifying the
OPENMAT entrance and no credit transfer facility will be provided.
In both the cases, a separate admission form (Form 3), which is a part of this booklet (p.97), is required
to be filled by such students. However, all formalities prescribed for seeking admission afresh after 16
years would remain same as applicable in case of a fresh student.
Those students who were admitted earlier to Management Programmes [including SDM (DE)] without the
provision of Entrance Test are required to clear the mandatory requirement of clearance of Entrance Test
while seeking fresh admission. Such students will fill the normal Admission Form (Form 2).
As indicated in ‘Re-Registration’ above, students would be allowed to register for maximum four courses in
a semester to enable them to register/re-register for proper combination of 21 courses for the award of
MBA Degree in five semesters. However, course(s) once registered must be successfully completed within
four semesters, failing which s/he would need to re-validate the registration for the course as prescribed in point
no. 5 above. The validity of a course registered after 7th year of the initial admission to the Programme would be
reduced appropriately, so that the prescribed maximum duration of eight years would remain unchanged.
CREDIT TRANSFER POLICY
If any student fails to complete all the requirements for the award of Degree/Diploma within the maximum
prescribed duration, s/he would have to take fresh admission in the programme by filling Form-3 (pp. 97). Full
credit transfer would be allowed in accordance with the approved internal credit transfer policy. The certification
would be awarded corresponding to the semester in which s/he completes all the courses. The ‘internal
credit transfer policy’ is given in Appendix 7 (p.94).
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
A certificate of completion in one or more successfully completed courses may also be awarded to students who
do not wish to, or are unable to complete all the required courses for the Degree/Diploma and/or surplus
courses opted which do not form proper combination of courses for the award of Degree/Diploma. It may
however, be noted that the credit of a successfully completed course cannot be accounted for more than one
programme.
RESERVATION
The University provides for reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBC and Physically
Handicapped learners as per the Government of India rules. There would be some relaxation in qualifying
standards for SC/ST categories and female candidates.
FEE STRUCTURE
Course fee of `1500/- per course can be paid through a Bank Draft obtained from any one of the scheduled
banks in favour of IGNOU and should be payable at the city where your Regional Centre is situated
(both at the time of Admission and Re-Registration). Please write Your Name, Enrolment Number and
address on the back of the Bank Draft to ensure proper credit to your fee account.
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