INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management (FOM) commenced Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) program as a distinct approach of attaining both theoretical knowledge and practical exposure. This university is the oldest university in Nepal and since its establishment it has been providing excellent education to the students. It provides a wide range of streams in the educational sector among which management education holds a major position. It introduced the Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) program in the year 2001/02 with an objective of producing middle level managerial professionals. It has designed the BBA course in such a way that the students are facilitated to know the real business situations in the global context.
An internship program under the BBA is mainly targeted at giving the practical exposure to the student who has acquired plenty of theoretical knowledge in the related field of the study. The student gets the opportunity to participate into the organizations to learn and solve the real life problem and develop the managerial skills they have learned. Hence, the main focus of the study is to analyze the student’s capability to adjust and adopt into the overall working environment. Moreover internship program offers platform to compare differences in theoretical and practical knowledge and its real implication.
BBA program of Tribhuvan University has kept the minimum requirement of eight weeks internship period. The reason behind including internship in the final semester is to provide the practical exposure, to train and prepare understanding of corporate cultures, to give an opportunity to analyze business setting by identifying the problems in the real life situation, to uplift the interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, students can use the knowledge acquired in the previous semesters and perform efficiently in completion of the assigned task in the workplace.
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