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Run, govern or start a business

Management, company law and governance, marketing, operations — and the rules a company has to keep to. Includes the route people mean by "I want to start something".

What the work actually is

  • Deciding with incomplete information, and being answerable for the decision
  • Compliance work that is invisible when it is done and expensive when it is not
  • A great deal of writing and talking to people, far more than the subject list suggests

Subjects that keep this open

  • Business Studies
  • Economics
  • Accountancy

Guidance, not a rule. Each route publishes its own subject requirements, and those are what count.

3 recorded routes

Every way in that we have mapped

Ordered alphabetically. None of these is presented as better than another; which one fits depends on things this page does not know about you.

  1. After Class 12Open entry, or admission on Class 10 or 12 marks

    A BBA or B.Com, then work — and an MBA later if it is worth it

    1. Step 1. Take a BBA or B.Com, admitted on Class 12 marks or through a university test.
    2. Step 2. Work for a few years.
    3. Step 3. Apply for an MBA later, with something to say about why.

    The ordinary route, and it is on this page because students are routinely told it is the route for people who did not get one of the others. Most people in management arrived this way, and an MBA applied for after some work is a better application than one applied for out of a degree.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    A five-year integrated management programme, straight from Class 12

    1. Step 1. Sit IPMAT or the equivalent test the institute runs, in Class 12.
    2. Step 2. Five years without applying again: the first three are the undergraduate half, the last two the MBA.

    Removes the CAT application entirely, which is the appeal. The cost is committing at seventeen to something most people choose at twenty-two, and the seats are very few.

    Where to check this

  3. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    Company Secretary, entered after Class 12

    1. Step 1. Sit CSEET after Class 12 and register with ICSI.
    2. Step 2. Pass the Executive stage, then the Professional stage, with training alongside.

    The least-known of the three professional routes and the most legal: company law, board process and the compliance a company is answerable for. It is the qualification that puts somebody in the room where a company’s decisions are formally recorded.

    Where to check this

Before you plan around any of these

Every route above links to the body that runs it. Eligibility, age limits, medical standards, subject requirements and dates are set by those bodies and change between cycles — we record what the route is and where to check it, and we do not track its dates. Read the official page before you decide anything.

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