New Delhi: From this year onwards, University of Delhi, popularly known as Delhi University (DU), would hold a joint entrance test for Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Bachelor of Business Economics (BBE) and Bachelor of Financial Investment and Analysis (BFIA). Students, who did not have maths as their elective subject in class XII, would not be eligible to apply in any of these academic courses.
The joint entrance test for all the three courses will be held on June 6 in Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kolkata, for which the application procedure has also been made online. The same will be made available from April 5, 2010 to May 4, 2010. According to DU's records, there were 15,000 students applying for these courses last year, indicating the popularity of the programme.
Rashmi Aggarwal, Head of Department of BBE has said that, it is of no use for students to sit for an exam twice, which has almost same content. It was observed that last year many of the candidates applying for more than one course sat for entrances of BBE and BBS with almost same set of questions. It seems pointless for students to first sit for a similar test twice and then await for a separate couselling.
While BBE is offered in 10 colleges in DU, BBS is taught in three colleges - Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies and Keshav Mahavidyala. BFIA is offered only in Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies. BBS has, so far, been the most sought-after option after B.Com, for students with a commerce background, who do not have maths as their subject in classes XI and XII.
