The document discusses the Delhi University's proposal to merge three business courses - Bachelor of Business Studies, Bachelor of Finance and Investment Analysis, and Bachelor of Business Economics into a single 4-year course. The author argues that this is an ill-conceived idea as the courses offer education in different disciplines and have different purposes. Merging them would destroy their identities and value in the job market. No valid logic has been provided for scrapping specialized courses that have proven records of 100% placements. The decision risks ruining the careers of current and past students who earned these degrees.

1. BBS-BFIA-BBE Course Merger:
Has Delhi University Made A
Blunder?
By Vrinda Dube

2. The same college that made me proud
• In the 25 years since its inception, CBS has rolled out
illustrious alumni, successful entrepreneurs, and industry
bigwigs through both its flagship courses Bachelor of
Business Studies (BBS) and Bachelor of Finance and
Investment Analysis (BFIA).
• Over time, it has grown to become one of the most sought
after colleges of the country.
• Ten months ago, I walked through the gates of this
prestigious college, proud of myself for having made it
through the three grueling admission rounds.
• Today, this college faces an identity crisis of sorts, its patent
courses threatened at the hands of a seemingly irresponsible
university.

3. Why merge?
• The University of Delhi has set forth a proposal to merge
Bachelor of Business Studies, Bachelor of Finance and
Investment Analysis and Bachelor of Business Economics, to
come up with an all-inclusive 4-year long umbrella course,
tentatively named Bachelor of Business Economics and
Management.
• While the new course shall contain elements from all these
three courses, these parent courses will be entirely scrapped.
• The first question that must be asked here is why merge
these three courses at all?

4. What logic?
• The university states the similarities in the course curriculum
to be the reason behind the merger.
• However, it must be noted that the only common ground
between these three courses is the entrance test that one
must clear for admission.
• Beyond the entrance exam, these three courses offer
education in three entirely different disciplines.
• BFIA is a core finance course, BBS offers general
management skills, and BBE focuses on business economics.
• The mere idea of merging these three courses is as absurd as
merging Political Science (H), History (H), and Geography (H)
to create a Social Studies (H), simply because there’s too
much paperwork to running three courses.

5. Where is the logic?
• By simple logic, would a merger between Economics(H) and
Bachelor of Business Economics not make more sense?
• Not only are both Economics oriented courses, one is an
academic course while the other is professional, and thus, the
two will compliment each other perfectly well.
• While the change in the duration of the course is acceptable,
even welcome, it is absurd that the university has been
unable to find sufficient subject matter to extend each of the
courses by an year individually, without clubbing irrelevant
courses together.

6. When the sole purpose is destroyed
• It is appalling, then, that the University of Delhi is seeking to
systematically destroy a professional course which has been
so widely accepted across the corporate industry, offering its
students 100% placements straight out of an undergraduate
college, citing over-specialisation at the undergraduate level
as the reason.
• Wasn’t the very purpose of courses like BBS and BFIA to
provide specialised competence to their students and ready
them for direct employment?
• Was that not what had always given the students of
BBS/BFIA an edge over the students of purely academic
courses like B.Com(H) and Economics(H)?

7. Who’s side has logic?
• Its sad that in a university, administrative concerns come
before academic ones.
• Nobody in the University of Delhi seems to care about the
800-odd students, and the many, many more alumni, who
will suffer grievously as their course goes defunct.
• What will happen when the very credibility of their degree
begins to be questioned, whether in job interviews, or in
post-graduate college admissions, is nobody’s concern.
• Nobody seems to realise that the repercussions of this one
imprudent decision hold the potential to ruin several careers.

8. • It is highly unfortunate that the university plans to do this to
some of the brightest minds of the country, all of whom have
left behind illustrious colleges to study Bachelor of Business
Studies and Bachelor of Finance and Investment Analysis.
• Rash, irrational decisions by an inconsiderate university is
certainly not what they deserve.

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