Diploma in Business Administration

This programme aims at providing students with knowledge and skills necessary for effective performance in the role of Business Manager. It adopts a generic approach to business administration and is designed for students with interests in business administration projects, business development, community services, trade, tourism and agricultural businesses.

Career Prospects

This course provides the most appropriate way of management of businesses for the new generation of managers who are asked to handle multi-disciplinary projects in a rapidly changing business environment. It is specifically designed for students who may have not have progressed directly to the university for one reason or the other, Management staff who are currently undertaking development works or running business projects or working in businesses within their normal roles and responsibilities.

Programme Objectives

The programme is intended to introduce the students to business administration principles; equip students with relevant knowledge and skills in business operation and management; provide students with knowledge and skills in book-keeping and financial reporting; enable the students generate business ideas that will enable them exploit the available resources for self-reliance. The programme aims at providing participants with knowledge and skills necessary for effective performance in the role of Business Manager. It adopts a generic approach to business administration and is designed for students with interests in business administration projects, business development, community services, trade, tourism and agricultural businesses.

Learning Outcomes

The Diploma in Business Administration is aimed at primarily the students who may have not have progressed directly to the university for one reason or the other, Management staff who are currently undertaking development works or running business projects or working in businesses within their normal roles and responsibilities.

Upon successful completion of the programme, students are expected to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge on how to assess business opportunities and an in-depth understanding of what typically characterize successes and failures.
  2. Identify key processes necessary to bring new products and services to market and key challenges facing the entrepreneur at different stages of the entrepreneurial voyage.
  3. Assess the commercial viability of new technologies, business opportunities and existing companies.
  4. Apply the business knowledge and skills acquired to serve organizations and communities professionally exhibiting remarkable competencies relevant to today’s business world, and of high standard.
  5. Develop and recommend viable business-management decisions through rightful and suitable connections with political, social, economic, legal, ethical, technological and environmental factors.
  6. Identify management and organizational problems, isolate critical factors, generate feasible alternatives and, after critical thinking and analysis, come up with the most appropriate and ethical solutions.
  7. Use acquired technological knowledge and skills to effectively and efficiently manage and administer business entities for desirable results.
Admission Requirements

Direct Entry Scheme

  1. To qualify for direct entry, the candidate must have at least one principal pass and two subsidiary passes attained at the same sitting of Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) or its equivalent.
  2. The Candidate must as well have at least 5 passes in the same sitting of Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) or its equivalent.

Certificate Entry Scheme

  1. The candidate must have a Certificate (Equivalent to Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education) in any course from a recognized institution.
  2. The Candidate must have at least 3 passes in the same sitting of Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) or its equivalent.
Program Duration

The program will extend over a period of two academic years. An academic year shall consist of two semesters and one recess term. A semester shall consist of 15 weeks of lectures. A recess term shall consist of 10 weeks.

Program Options

The following Curriculum Matrix/ Structure summarize the layout of the courses which will be offered to all students doing a Diploma in Business Administration of Uganda Technology and Management University.

 

Year One Semester One (6 cores)

Code

Course name

LH

PH

TH

CH

CU

BAF 1100

Fundamentals of Accounting I

30

--

30

45

4

BBA 1104

Principles and Practices of Management

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 1106

Communication Skills

30

15

15

45

3

CSC 1101

Computer Applications & Systems

30

30

-

45

3

BEC 1100

Microeconomics I

30

-

30

45

3

BBA 1103

Introduction to Business Administration

30

-

30

45

3

 

Semester Load

 

 

 

 

20

Year One Semester Two (6 cores)

Code

Course name

LH

PH

TH

CH

CU

BBA 1204

Principles of Marketing

30

-

30

45

3

BBA 2203

Taxation & Tax Management

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 2207

Money and Banking

30

-

30

45

3

BEC 1204

Macroeconomics I

30

-

-

45

3

RMS 2201

Research Methods

30

-

30

45

3

QMT 1200

Quantitative Methods I

30

-

30

45

3

 

Semester Load

 

 

 

 

19

Year One Recess Term

COE 1300

Community Engagement I

-

150

-

75

5

 

Recess Term Load

 

 

 

 

5

Year Two Semester One (6 Cores)

Code

Name

LH

PH

TH

CH

CU

BBA 2104

Business Statistics

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 2106

Business Financial Management

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 2109

Intermediate Accounting

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 3101

Strategic Management

30

-

30

45

3

BHR 1100

Principles of Human Resource Management

45

-

30

60

4

LWS  2107

Business Law

45

--

30

60

4

 

Semester Load

 

 

 

 

23

Year Two Semester Two (6 Cores)

Code

Name

LH

PH

TH

CH

CU

BAF 3212

Auditing and Investigations

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 2201

Entrepreneurship Development

45

-

30

60

4

BBA 3202

Ethics and Governance

30

-

30

45

3

BBA 3203

Production and Operations Management

30

-

30

45

3

DPR 2201

Diploma Project

-

120

-

60

4

 

Semester Load

 

 

 

 

18

Minimum Graduation Load

85

Minimum Graduation Load = 85 Credit Units

Fees per semester

Local Students (East African Community)

Fees per semester (UGX)Functional Fees (UGX)Application Fees (UGX)
600,000250,00050,000
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