About Lateral Entry Into MBA

People having special interest in their professional development sometimes don’t have enough time to leave their respective jobs to pursue higher studies that would catapult them to a higher ground. They want to minimize the time spent in pursuing full time studies. Especially for such professionals/individuals, courses allowing lateral entry are boon from the heavens. It is an option that provides an opportunity for skilled individuals with proven and demonstrated subject knowledge skills to delay their entry into the respective courses and gain valuable time for their organizations and themselves.

These individuals need more time to plan their studies and would want to extract maximum growth by devoting minimum time. Offering lateral entry to these individuals can ease their life and can prove to be the most benign incentive to talented professionals.

Simply put, a lateral entry to an MBA allows a professional to delay his/her admission to the course by one semester and join directly into the second semester. This is of course, designed to provide greater flexibility if the individual clears the examinations for the first semester at a later stage. It is very easy to get lateral entry in some specific courses. Some courses have just minimal requirements built into them like having scored a minimum required marks percentage and having some specific years of experience or another minimal set of qualifications pertaining to the discipline.

Individuals who meet these requirements can take advantage of this golden opportunity and can get more time to devote to their professional and personal commitments and then get an entry into the course of your choice at a lateral stage.

The advantages are two-pronged as organizations are now required to give a lesser duration of study leave to their employees. Thanks to lateral entry programs, now-a-days organizations are willingly encouraging their employees to take a sabbatical  to study and enhance their skills and knowledge base. A win-win situation for all!

IAIT has partnered with Sikkim Manipal University, Punjab Technical University and the Karnataka State Open University to provide many MBA courses with lateral entry for your benefit. Check out our website or give us a call for information.