MBA in Finance

for Working
Professionals
INDEX
Programme introduction 01

Who should apply 02

Programme highlights 03

Programme objectives 04

WILP presence and impact 05

Student learning outcomes 06

Learning methodology 07

Experiential learning 08

Programme curriculum 10

Eligibility criteria 11

Fee structure 12

Remote lab 13

Mode of examination 15

How to apply 18

Students speak 20
 Program introduction

● MBA in Finance is a UGC-approved, Work Integrated Learning

Programme offered by
BITS Pilani WILP
● Designed for working professionals and aspirants in high-growth
areas of Finance or the BFSI industry

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 Who Should Apply?

Finance professionals
Highly driven and
working in the banking
ambitious finance
sector. To acquire
professionals
advanced knowledge
Financial Analyst,
and skills in areas such
Finance Manager,
as Investment Banking
Controller, etc. across
and Commercial
various industries.
Banking.

Non- finance
professionals working in
industries such as IT/
To acquire expertise in ITES, Consulting,
areas such as Manufacturing and
Advanced Corporate Services at senior
Finance and Risk levels. Professionals
Management who need financial
skills and
cross-functional
knowledge to elevate to
a CXO role.

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 Programme Highlights

4 semester MBA in UGC

Finance programme from approved programme
BITS Pilani WILP for Working professionals

Pursue the programme Online classes conducted

without any career break mostly on weekends

Special emphasis on The programme uses a

experiential learning through Continuous Evaluation
Simulations, Lab exercises, System to assess the
Work integrated learning learners
activities etc

4th semester covers Semesters 1st, 2nd and

two electives along with 3rd cover four courses
a project. each

Learners to apply concepts

Blend of classroom and
and techniques learnt during
experiential learning.
the programme

Become members of an elite Fee submission option using

& global community of easy - EMI with 0% interest
BITS Pilani Alumni. and 0 down payment

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 Programme Objectives

Prepare working professionals Enable learners master a set of

to take on challenging roles in core general management skills
the nance sector

Build and nurture the Provide requisite conceptual

knowledge, skills and aptitude foundation, and contextual
to achieve long-term career understanding of real-world
growth applications

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 WILP Presence and Impact

43+ 1,14,000+
Years of Working
Educating Working Professionals
Professionals Graduated

43,700+ 1100+
Working Professionals
Currently Enrolled Faculty Members

46+
Programmes

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 Student
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the
programme, learners will:

Apply critical thinking Sound Empathetic

skills to solve Business decision-making skills leadership skills
Problems

Ethically and socially Essential concepts and Analyze ¬financial markets,

responsible manner. frameworks in accounting products and investment
and Fi¬nance. behavior of different types
of investors

Evaluate different Analyzing Cash Flows Measure and manage

approaches to valuation of and other Financial nancial risks using various
fi¬nancial products Market Data. quantitative and analytical
techniques.

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 Learning Methodology

Attend online
lectures over weekends

Lectures are conducted live via online classeso nline classrooms offer similar
levels of interactivity as regular classrooms at the BITS Pilani campus.

Classes for students admitted during the period Oct 2023 - Jan 2024 will
begin in Jan 2024.

The duration of online lectures is total of 7-8 hours per week.

Digital learning

Learners can access engaging learning material at their own pace.

It includes recorded lectures from BITS Pilani faculty members, course
handouts and recorded lab content wherever applicable.

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 Experiential Learning

The programme emphasises on

Experiential Learning.

Simulation game on Working Capital

Management.

Stock Market, Supply Chain Management, CESIM

Boardgame, Short games etc. to understand Corporate
Financial Management and Financial Decision Making

Practitioner's perspective on application of latest

developments in Finance.

In-depth data analytics workshops using and for

courses like Financial Analytics and Advanced
Risk Models.

Practitioner's perspective on application of latest

developments in Finance.

Leading banks and financial institutions across the

world use Bloomberg terminal to monitor and analyze
real-time ¬financial market data.

The experiential learning components include

Bloomberg terminal-based demonstrations and
assignments covering relevant concepts.

"Financial Management" "Security Analysis and Portfolio

Management", "Global Financial Markets and Products",
"Derivatives and Financial Engineering" and other
courses as appropriate.

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 Case studies & Assignments
Carefully chosen real-world cases & assignments are both
discussed and used as problem-solving exercises during the
programme

Project Work
The fourth semester offers an opportunity for learners to apply
their knowledge gained during the programme to a real-world
like complex project. The learner is expected to demonstrate
understanding of vital principles learnt across semesters and
their ability to successfully apply these concepts

Continuous Assessment
The assessment includes graded assignments/quizzes,
mid-semester and comprehensive exam

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 Programme Curriculum

First Semester Second Semester

● Financial and Management Accounting ● Marketing
● Managerial Economics ● Financial Management
● Quantitative Methods ● Operations Management
● Managing People & Organizations ● Global Financial Markets and Products

Third Semester Fourth Semester

● Multinational Finance ● Elective 1
● Security Analysis and Portfolio ● Elective 2
Management ● Project
● Financial Analytics
● Strategic Management &
Business Policy

General Pool of Electives

● Introduction to FinTech ● Advanced Risk Models
● Business Analysis and Valuation
● Financial Risk Management
● Venture Capital and Private Equity
● Management of Banks & Financial
● Mergers, Acquisitions, and
Institutions
Corporate Restructuring
● Behavioural Finance

Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester.
Students' choice will be taken as one of the factors while deciding on the Electives offered.
However, Electives finally offered will be at the discretion of the Institute.

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 Eligibility Criteria
Employed professionals holding B.E./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ Integrated First Degree of
BITS or its equivalent with at least 60% aggregate marks, and minimum one year
of relevant work experience after the completion of the degree.

OR

Employed professionals holding a three year undergraduate degree such s

B.Sc./ B.Com./ BCA or equivalent with at least 60% aggregate marks, and having
studied at least one course in mathematics or statistics at the high school or
higher level, and minimum two years of relevant work experience after the
completion of the degree.

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 Fee Structure
The following fees schedule is applicable for candidates seeking new
admission during the academic year 2023-24:

Application Fees Admission Fees Semester Fees

(one time) (one time) (per semester)

`1500 `16,500 `63,500

EMI with 0% interest and 0 down payment

Instant EMI option with 0% interest and 0 down payment is now available
that allows you to pay programme fee in an easy and convenient way.

● Instant online approval in seconds

● Easy & Secure online process using Aadhaar and PAN number
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All the above fees are non-refundable.

Important: For every course in the program institute will recommend textbooks,
students would need to procure these textbooks on their own.

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 Remote Lab
● Students enrolled in the WILP management programs have remote access to
the labs in the areas of finance, analytics, and general management.

● These labs play a vital role in enhancing student engagement and enriching the
“learning by doing”- cornerstone of BITS Pilani WILPD programs.

Analytics Lab
The Analytics Lab hosts These packages help the
software packages such as students perform basic,
Tableau, SPSS, Stata, @risk, advanced workplace related
StatTools, Eviews, Anaconda analytics exercises
Navigator, R, Python, and
Power BI among others

Students can perform Adequate suite of packages to

descriptive, predictive, and equip the students to work on
prescriptive analytics related to different types of data- numeric
all the functional areas of or text, structured or unstructured
finance, marketing, supply
chain management, HR
management

Finance Lab
The Finance Lab hosts The Financial markets as well
state-of-the-art Bloomberg as the financial statements
Terminals that capture and valuable business
real-time information information of the industry

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 The databases such as The Lab also hosts a simulation on
"Prowess” are also made working capital management that
available to the students so gives the students rich experience in
that they can download the managing the working capital and
information increases their absorption through
experiential learning

Management Lab
The Management Lab is The simulations help improve
equipped with software, the decision-making skills,
simulations, and digital business competence and
resources that students can integrating the application of
leverage in core areas of learnings from various courses
management

With the Microsoft Project Students get access to the digital

software, the students can collection of professionally
plan, schedule, track, produced multimedia case
collaborate to successfully studies, interviews, and
execute projects peer-reviewed journals by
renowned authorities in diverse
subject areas
such as Global Business
Management, Finance,
Accounting, Economics,
Marketing & Sales, Strategy,
Technology, and Operations

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 Mode of Examination

Semester 1, 2 & 3 have

Examination Mode
Mid-Semester Examinations
Options applicable for
and Comprehensive
students admitted in
Batch starting in These examinations are
mostly scheduled on
Jan 2024.
Friday, Saturday
or Sunday.

There will also be In the Semester 4

Quizzes/Assignments (Final Semester), the
conducted online on the student will be doing a
Learning Management Dissertation/Project
System (LMS) as per the Work as per the
course plan for students. Institution’s guidelines.

Two Options on Mode of Examinations:

● It is institute’s endeavour to offer two options on mode of exams at the time of the registration
for each semester of the programme. However, please note that Option 2 as explained below
is offered purely on the discretion of the institute. Availability of Option 2 is not assured and is
subject to institute’s own assessment of the feasibility of providing it.
● Students will need to choose one from the available option/s provided by the institute at the
time of registering for every semester. The two mode of exam options are explained below:

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 Option 1- Examinations at Designated
Examination Centers:

Students choosing this option will

These designated
need to appear in person for taking
examination centers are at In addition to these
the examinations at the institution’s
the following locations: locations, Institution also
designated examination centers.
Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi has a designated
as per the examination schedule,
NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, examination center in
instructions, rules and guidelines
Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, Dubai.
announced before every
and Pilani.
examination

Option 2 - Online Examinations:

To take an Online
Examination, the student
must possess a Laptop or
Desktop system with Two
WebCams (One Web
Students choosizng this Cam for the student’s Laptop or Desktop
option can take the frontal face view and a system’s full side view
examinations online Second Web Cam for the during the exam), a
from any location e.g. student’s and smartphone and good
office or home. internet connectivity.

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 ● However the Institute at its discretion may choose not to offer this option and in
such a case students will need to take the examinations as per Option 1 that
entails appearing for the examination at any one of the designated examination
centres.
● Please click here to refer to the complete details about mandatory IT and Non-IT
Infrastructure requirements for taking the online examinations.
● A student should choose this option only if the student is confident to arrange
the required mandatory IT Infrastructure and Non-IT Infrastructure to take the
examinations under this mode. Students opting for online examinations would
require to log in to the institution’s online examination platform as per the
announce examination schedule and take the online examinations in
compliance with the institution’s defined instructions, guidelines, and rules which
are announced before all examinations.
Important:
While the institute aims to provide both options during semester registration, online
mode availability may not always be guaranteed, and the institute may choose to
offer only one option at its discretion.
While it will be institute’s endeavour to offer both the above options for students to
choose from at the time of registering for any semester, however availability of the
online mode option may not always be feasible or is assured and Institute at its
own discretion could choose to offer only Option 1 as mentioned above.

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 How to Apply

Click here to Create a login

Once logged in,
visit the BITS Pilani using your unique
follow four
Online Application email ID and
essential steps:
Center. password.

Step 1 2 3 4
Fill and submit
Step
Download a PDF
Step
Pay the application
Step
Print the downloaded
your application copy of the fee of INR 1,500 using Application Form and
form for your application form. Net banking/Debit note your Application
chosen program. Card/Credit Card. Form Number.

In the printout of the downloaded Application Form, you will notice on page no. 3 a section called the
Employer Consent Form. Complete the Employer Consent Form. This form needs to be signed and
stamped by your organisation’s HR or any other authorised signatory of the company.
Important: In view of work-from-home policies mandated by many organisations, a few candidates may
not be able to get the physical forms signed by their HR/other authorised organisational representative.
Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the HR
using the format available through this link.

On page 4, complete the Mentor Consent Form, Due to remote work policies, some candidates
which needs to be signed by your Mentor. may struggle to get physical mentor signatures.
They can request email approval using a
provided format.

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 Who is a mentor:
● Candidates applying to Work Integrated Learning Programmes must choose a Mentor,
who will monitor the academic progress of the candidate, and act as an advisor &
coach for successful completion of the programme.
● Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person
from the same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same
organisation, a candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who
has the required qualifications. Wherever the proposed Mentor is not from the same
employing organization as that of the candidate, a supporting document giving
justification for the same should be provided by the candidate’s employer.
● Candidates applying to B.Tech. programmes should choose a Mentor who is an
employed professional with B.E./ B.S./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ A.M.I.E./ Integrated First
Degree of BITS or equivalent. Candidates applying to M.Tech., M.Sc., MBA, M.Phil
programme should choose a Mentor who is an employed professional with:
● B.E./ M.Sc./ M.B.A./ M.C.A./ M.B.B.S. etc. and with a minimum of five years of relevant
work experience.
OR
● M.E./ M.S./ M.Tech./ M.Phil./ M.D./ Higher Degree of BITS or equivalent.

In the final step (Step 4),

Photocopies of these
Page 5 of the downloaded upload your printed Application
documents should be made,
Application Form includes Form, Mentor Consent Form,
and applicants need to
a Checklist of Employer Consent Form, and
self-attest academic mark
Enclosures/Attachments. mandatory documents
sheets and certificates.
one by one.

Selected candidates will

Accepted file formats for The Admissions Cell will
receive email notifications
uploads include .DOC, review your application for
within two weeks of submitting
.DOCX, .PDF, .ZIP, and completeness, accuracy,
their application with all
.JPEG. and eligibility.
required documents.

You can also check your

selection status by logging
in to the Online Application
Centre.

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 Students Speak
BITS Pilani WILP’s online lectures are as good as face-to-face
classroom lectures. This degree programme from BITS Pilani WILP
helped me to advance my skills in emerging fields of new-age finance
and imparted me knowledge that made me feel more confident with
leading challenging projects at my workplace.

Shashi Bhushan
Project Manager, GE
Participant of MBA in Finance

I have gained a lot through this program. I am now in a zone

where I am comfortable challenging others, I feel I am empowered
with the right knowledge to do my job better with BITS Pilani
WILP’s degree programme

Amruthavarshini HK
Senior Test Engineer

The programme from BITS Pilani WILP has been nothing short
of remarkable for me. From the moment I entered the
programme, I was impressed by the depth of knowledge and
expertise that the faculty brought to the table. I found this
programme quite aligned with my current job role and equipped
me with the right administrative and management skills.

Avinash Balivada
Lead Administrator, WIPRO Technologies

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 UGC Approval
BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under UGC (Institution of Eminence
Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work Integrated Learning
Programmes (WILP) of BITS Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational
offerings for working professionals. WILP are an extension of programmes
offered at the BITSPilani Campuses and are comparable to our regular
programmes both in terms of unit/credit requirements as well as academic
rigour. In addition, it capitalises and further builds on practical experience of
students through high degree of integration, which results not only in
upgradation of knowledge, but also in up skilling, and productivity increase.
The programme may lead to award of degree, diploma, and certificate in
science, technology/engineering, management, and humanities and social
sciences.
On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert Committee, UGC in its
548th Meeting held on 09.09.20 has approved the continued offering of BITS
Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning programmes.

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