The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is offering an associate degree in commerce with a specialisation in either accounting and finance or banking and finance from August 1, 2011, announced AIOU Director Admissions Syed Zia-ul-Hasnain Naqvi on Saturday. The director said that the Associate Degree Program (ADP) has been designed in consultation with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in order to develop professionally trained human resource capital to meet the specific needs of the industry.
The ADP has been primarily developed for those students who are unable to join four year degree programs and those who wish to seek jobs at early stages. He said that the Degree was equivalent to a two-year graduation. The AIOU Department of Commerce is also offering admissions in the two year M.Com Accounting and Finance programme. The admission criterion requires applicants to have completed 14 years education. AIOU also plans to offer the admissions in a 3.5 years Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in four specializations; HRM, Marketing Management, Banking & Finance and Information Technology Management.
AIOU has placed the autumn 2010 semester assignments results for all the postgraduate programs it offers on its website, www.aiou.edu.pk. AIOU Controller of Examinations Hafizullah said that the purpose of putting up the results on the websites was to ensure that any discrepancies are rectified.
