Scope of MBA after Engineering

by Anjana Krishnan Social Media Marketing

There are many engineering students who choose management fields as their professional career. Its matter of luck for many engineers’ while for a few others it’s a field of choice.

The MBA program is a very sought after qualification worldwide. The scope for the management programs is very wide as it equips a candidate with the necessary business acumen and ethical standards required in the mainstream corporate environment.

An MBA qualification will equip a candidate with people management skills and an engineering qualification will equip a candidate with material management skills. Thus, a candidate with both people-management and material-management skills is a utopian product of the employee market. Hence, studying MBA after engineering is an extremely astute proposal.

Top Institutes/B-Schools:

For those looking for an MBA degree immediately after Engineering, studying in India is one of the best option as all premier B-schools across the globe require the potential candidates to have some work experience. The premier B-Schools in India are more open to accepting fresher’s.

The various engineering courses cause a heavy positive shift of intellectual competency in a candidate. Training these intellectually advanced candidates to become effective and efficient managers will be a less difficult task. Hence, the elite business schools in India i.e. IIM Ahmadabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Kozhikode, XLRI Jamshedpur, FMS of University of Delhi, whose graduates get a minimum pay package of Rs. 12 Lakh per annum, prefer engineering graduates.

Career Opportunities:

There is a permanent demand for engineering cum management graduates in the public sector. Public sector corporations like BHEL, BEL, Coal India, HPCL, EIL, BPCL, Mazagon Dock, MECON, NACL, NLC, NMDC, SAIL, NTPC, IOCL, ONGC, Power Grid, Railtel, RITES and UCI are in constant requirement of engineering discipline management graduates. Those engineering discipline MBA graduates who clear the Indian Engineering Services ( IES) exam are placed in high cadre engineering managerial posts in Indian Railways, defense, CPWD and BSNL where leadership, management and technical skills are required.

90 vacancies have opened for engineering discipline management jobs in the public sector from the period of January - June 2016. This implies that one government vacancy in this discipline opens every two days.

There are innumerable private companies who constantly require engineering discipline management graduates, both in and out of India. Companies like CTS, TCS, Wipro, TATA Steel, RIL, HCL, IBM etc. constantly emphasize on acquiring engineering discipline MBA graduates.

Hence, the scope for engineering discipline management professionals is higher than their non-engineering counterparts.