June 22: King’s College has launched two innovative MBA courses: MBA Non-Profit Management and MBA Agribusiness. The college claimed that both the courses are first of its kind in Nepal’s higher education system.

According to the college, the MBA Non-Profit Management course expects non-profit professionals to develop leadership and management skills required to inculcate enterprising mindset and to sustain mission-based initiatives.

 “A trend of self-sustainable model in non-profit organizations has already started challenging the donor dependent mentality,” says the college in a press release issued on Friday.

“Therefore, in the evolving political and socio-economic context, non-profits now must adopt hard-tested theories of business management on the areas like resource optimization, finance, marketing, branding, risk management, leadership development, and social entrepreneurship.”

With nine core subjects including organizational leadership, organizational behavior, marketing management, managerial economics, managing information systems and technology, managerial accounting, financial management, strategic management in a globalized economy and applied methods capstone, the MBA Non-Profit Management course aims at preparing students with key skills in community engagement, fundraising, and governance.

Likewise, MBA Agribusiness aims at developing human resources to transform the country’s traditional sustenance-based agriculture into high-growth businesses through innovation and entrepreneurship.

The MBA Agribusiness mainly targets the students from agriculture, forestry and similar academic sector. “The course will be beneficial for individuals wanting to start business in agricultural sector or those aspiring to take their agribusiness to newer heights.”

With nine core topics like organizational leadership, organizational behavior, marketing management, managerial economics, managing information systems and technology, managerial accounting, financial management, strategic management in a globalized economy and applied methods capstone, the aim of MBA Agribusiness is to create a platform to motivate and provide systematic guidance to the students, and help them realize their dreams as agripreneurs.

“Even though the new courses seem to be technical, students from all academic background with interest in business education can do well as both courses tilt towards business and entrepreneurship,” says Narottam Aryal, principal of the college. “The courses are parts of our aspiration to offer degrees which are more timely, innovative, and focused on leadership and entrepreneurship development.”

Approved by Westcliff University, USA, and recognized by Tribhuvan University, Nepal, the courses are designed to be relevant for Nepali soil, the college claimed. The classes for both the courses will begin from August, this year.