Bachelor of Management Studies (Hons.)

1. Common Core (40 Credits)

Every WPU GŌA student, irrespective of major, completes a carefully designed 40-credit University Common Core forming the intellectual bedrock of the entire academic ecosystem and developing ten essential graduate attributes. The Common Core equips students with transversal skills transcending any single discipline. It creates shared intellectual language across engineers, designers, psychologists, and managers enabling effective collaboration on complex, real-world problems. It ensures every student graduates with strong critical thinking, ethical reasoning, communication fluency, data literacy, and systemic perspective — capabilities increasingly valued in leadership roles.

2. Business Management Foundation & Programme Core

This component delivers rigorous, comprehensive grounding in all foundational and functional areas of management, progressing logically from Year 1 to Year 3. The programme core builds strong disciplinary competence and functional mastery before students move into specialisations, ensuring graduates possess a solid management toolkit that is both conceptually deep and practically applicable.

3. Within-Domain Specialisation (Year 3 onwards)

Students select one specialisation track in Year 3 and complete advanced, domain-specific courses providing significant depth. The specialisation tracks enable students to develop specialised expertise preparing them for focused professional roles, entrepreneurship, or higher studies in their chosen area. Three available tracks:

• Global Business and Entrepreneurship
• Digital Economy and E-Commerce
• Business Strategy and Systems Design

4. Directed Electives

These advanced elective courses offer flexibility to deepen knowledge within the chosen track or explore closely related topics. Examples include: Behavioural Economics for Managers, Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy, Corporate Governance & Compliance, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, Social Impact Measurement, Family Business Management, and Advanced Financial Modelling. Directed electives allow customisation enabling students to tailor their degree according to specific career interests and strengths.

5. Cross-Domain Specialisation

In addition to primary business specialisation, every student completes one Cross-Domain Specialisation from another academic cluster (Engineering, Design, or Humanities). Curated options include:

• Technology Management & AI Applications
• Design Thinking, Product & Service Innovation
• Digital Branding and Customer Experience

Students may also design a custom cross-domain pathway under faculty guidance. This pathway is a defining feature of WPU GŌA graduates and a critical requirement for solving complex, real-world problems. It fosters transdisciplinary fluency and inculcates the ability to integrate insights from multiple domains.

6. Capstone / Signature Work (Semester 8, 12 Credits)

The culminating experience is a full-semester, 12-credit Capstone Project in Semester 8. Students undertake a substantial, real-world integrative project which may be a strategy consulting assignment, startup venture launch, policy research dissertation, or organisational transformation project. The Capstone is mentored by a faculty–industry panel and requires students to synthesise knowledge from their Within-Domain specialisation, Cross-Domain specialisation, immersions, IIP, and core courses.

Year 1: Foundations and Early Exposure

Students engage in introductory field observations, business visits, and communication workshops that help them understand how teams operate and how customer-facing processes work. These early experiences build awareness of systems, processes, and workplace culture. Students participate in a two-week International Immersion. They work on a Mini Grand Challenge that builds interdisciplinary collaboration and early systems thinking. They also spend one week at the Life Transformation Centre (LTC) — developing their ethical lens, leadership skills, and reflective clarity — and undertake a Pune industrial visit to observe real-world business environments.

Year 2: Social Immersion and Community Understanding

In Year 2 students learn to connect their core discipline with society, behaviour, and complex systems. Students spend five days in rural Goa, transitioning from observation to active problem identification and project framing. The second semester features a domain-aligned trade show visit in the Asian region, combined with lectures at prominent regional institutions. The second year concludes with a two-month internship with an NGO, a social organisation, or an IAS officer.

Year 3: Industry Immersion and Managerial Practice

Students engage with organisations across sectors such as retail, tourism, banking, consulting, manufacturing, and digital services. Through industry projects, they study organisational dynamics, analyse business problems, and gain exposure to real-time management scenarios. The National Immersion at an IIM deepens exposure to cutting-edge management education. The Dubai trade show introduces them to global market trends and provides exposure to global business ecosystems. Their 12-week industry internship becomes the foundation for Grand Challenge Studio II, where they turn insights into proposals.

Year 4: Professional Internship or Advanced Industry Experience

Students undertake a professional internship or transdisciplinary Capstone project where they work directly with organisations or industries on strategic or operational projects. This final immersion informs the capstone project and shapes students as job-ready or venture-ready graduates.