Institute of Business Administration

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Admissions 2010 Dr. Sayeed Ghani Associate
Dean, Faculty of Computer Science Institute of
Business Administration, Karachi
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Overview

• Historical Perspective
• Academics
• Degree Programs
• Admissions Requirements
• Fees Structure
• Departments
• Faculty
• Research
• Student Facilities
• Events
• Job Placements
• IT and other Infrastructure
• Ongoing Projects

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Historical Perspective

• Established in 1955
• Oldest graduate business school outside North
  America
• International Collaborations
• Established in collaboration with the Wharton
  School of Finance and Commerce, University of
  Pennsylvania.
• USAID 10 million grant on establishing
  facilities at IBA.
• Fifty prominent American professors were assigned
  to IBA, while over 70 IBA faculty members
  received advanced degrees from Wharton and USC
• Received Charter Degree Awarding Institute
  Status in 1994

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Faculty of Computer Science (FCS)

• Center for Computer Studies (CCS) Established in
  1983
• Initially provided diplomas in Computing related
  fields
• 1987 MBA(MIS) degree formally offered
• 1998/99 BCS and BBA(MIS)
• 2002 MBA(MIS) evening program
• 2005 PhD in CSE/ICT/MIS
• 2008
• BCS being re-launched as BS (Computer Science)
• BS (CS)
• MS (CS) - Evening
• Expansion of PhD program
• Over 700 graduates
• 2009 FCS established

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IBA Today

• An Island of excellence
• A recognized Island of Excellence in the
  country, trusted by businessmen and foreign
  businesses
• Some of our core values
• Merit
• Truth
• Discipline
• Outstanding Students
• Highly competitive admission process
• Highly qualified Faculty
• Large number of PhDs
• Extensive business and industry experience

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Degree Programs
Faculty of Computer Science Programs
Offered as part of BBA/MBA programs
BS (Computer Science)
BBA (MIS Specialization)
MS (Computer Science) Evening
MBA (MIS Specialization) Day Eve
Ph.D. (CSE/ICT/AI/others)
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Degree Programs
Faculty of Business Administration Programs
BBA
MBA Day Eve
EMBA
MS (Economics) Eve
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Faculty of Computer Science Degree Programs -
Durations

• BS (CS) 4 year
• MS (CS) Evening 3 4 years
• BBA (MIS specialization) 4 year
• MBA (Specialization in MIS) 2 year
• MBA (Specialization in MIS) Evening 3 4 years
• Ph.D. in the following areas 3 6 year
• Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Operations Research, Cryptography
• Numerical Analysis, Numerical Computing

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MS Curriculum

• 30 credit hours
• MS Thesis (Optional)
• Multiple specialization tracks
• Must take courses from at least two tracks
• Within a specialization track a minimum of two to
  a maximum of 4 courses may be taken, each of 3
  credits. Each track has their own set of
  prerequisites usually BS level courses.
• Specialization tracks
• Net-Centric Computing
• Human Computer Interaction
• Intelligent Systems
• Software Engineering
• Information Management
• Theoretical Computer Science

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MBA MIS Specialization

• MBA Management Information Systems (MIS)
  specialization
• Balanced exposure to business, computer science
  and MIS subjects
• 12 core business courses (common with all
  specializations)
• 4 core MIS courses (from a pool of six courses)
  and
• six electives, which may be either business or
  MIS courses
• 6 credit IS project
• Core MIS Courses
• Information Systems Development Theory and
  Practice
• Enterprise Integration
• Network Architecture for Business
• Logistics Supply Chain Management
• IT Project Change Management
• Business Intelligence
• Students specializing in MIS need to take six
  electives. These may be chosen from any graduate
  courses offered by IBA provided their
  prerequisites have been met.

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Strategic Partnerships
SAP, February 2009
Oracle, May 2009
Microsoft, 2005
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Business Administration Programs

• Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA)
• Morning Program 4 year
• Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
• Morning Program 2 year
• MBA Evening
• For in-service people 3-4 year
• MS (Economics)
• New Program 2 Year

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Eligibility Criteria for Undergraduate programs

• Undergraduate Programs
• BS(CS)
• BBA
• Eligibility for Undergraduate Programs
• Intermediate (minimum 65 marks), or
• A Levels (minimum of two Bs and one
  C)Grades of General and AS level courses will
  not be accepted
• For BS A-level or Intermediate Math required
• Procedure
• Admission details along with test dates will be
  published in the Daily DAWN
• Website www.iba.edu.pk

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Eligibility Criteria for MS MBA Programs

• MS MBA Programs
• MS (CS) Evening
• MS (Economics) Evening
• MBA, MBA (with MIS specialization)
• MBA, MBA (with MIS specialization) Evening
• Eligibility
• Minimum 2.5 out of 4.0 GPA, or 60 from
  recognized university
• 16 years of education is required
• For MBA holders of professional degrees (B.E.,
  M.B.B.S., etc) accepted
• For MS must have relevant undergraduate degree
• Procedure
• Admission details along with IBA entrance test
  dates will be published in the Daily DAWN
• Website www.iba.edu.pk

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Ph.D. Program

• Eligibility
• Teaching / Research Assistance
• Ph.D. students shall be required to either act as
  a research associate to a professor or to teach
  undergraduate level courses for which a monthly
  stipend shall be given
• Ph.D. students will be entitled to full waiver of
  tuition fee for the entire program
• Detailed PhD prospectus will be available on
  website
• Procedure
• Admission details along with IBA entrance test
  dates will be published in the Daily DAWN
• Website www.iba.edu.pk

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Admissions Test ScheduleBS(CS), MS(CS), PhDfor
Spring 2010

• Nov 23 - Dec 18 Online Registration
• December 20th Admission Test
• January 1st Test Results announced
• Jan. 4th to 9th Interviews
• January 16th Final Results announced
• January 25th Last date for submitting fees
• February 1st, 2010 Start of Classes
• Procedure
• Admission details along with IBA entrance test
  dates will be published in the Daily DAWN
  starting November 22nd.
• Online Admissions
• Website www.iba.edu.pk

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Admissions Test ScheduleFall 2010(Tentative)

• June 6th, 2010 MBA / MS / PhD Admissions Test
• July 4th, 2010 BBA / BS Admissions Test
• Procedure
• Online Forms will be available from mid February
  onwards
• Website www.iba.edu.pk

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Fee Structure Fall 2009
Caution Money is refundable within a period of
one year after completion of course work.
NOTE The Charges mentioned are for one semester.
Approximately 6-10 Increase in Fees should be
expected every year.
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Faculty of Computer Science
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Faculty of Business Administration Departments
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IBA Faculty

• Recently a number of PhDs have been added to
  IBAs faculty, bringing the total number of PhDs
  to 22
• Student Faculty Ratio 181

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IBA Faculty

• Have degrees from
• Boston University,
• University of Auckland, Columbia University,
  MIT, Northern Illinois University, University
  of Sheffield, Portland State University,
  University of Cambridge, University of
  Southampton, Northeastern University, Centre
  for Fiscal Studies, Vanderbilt University,
  Indian Institute of Technology, Strathclyde
  Business School, University of London

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FCS Faculty

• PhD Faculty
• Dr. Ahmed Ali Shah Numerical Analysis, Numerical
  Computing,
• (Univ. Of Kent) Cryptography
• Dr. Nasir Touheed Parallel Processing,
  Operations Research,
• (Univ. of Leeds) Numerical Analysis, SAP/ABAP
• Dr. Sajjad Haider Artificial Intelligence,
  Robotics and Bayesian Networks
• (George Mason)
• Dr. Sayeed Ghani Performance analysis and
  simulation of
• (MIT, Columbia) wireless, 4G and heterogeneous
  networks
• Dr. Wasim Khan Operations Research, Virtual
  Manufacturing
• (Univ. of Sheffield) and Education Management
• Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif Management Information
  Systems, Social Networking
• (Temple, IBA)
• Dr. Shakeel Khoja Usage of Web Technologies
  into learning, Multimedia
• (Univ. of Southampton) Systems, Digital
  Video/Image Processing and Storage
• Faculty pursuing PhD
• F. Iradat, I. Khan, Quratulain Rajput, W. Arain,
  S. Irfan Nabi, R. Faruqui, R. Abedi

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Research

• Conference Presentations (National and
  International)
• Lead research contributor in the country in all
  forums
• Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Marketing
  and Management

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Research _at_ FCS

• Wireless Networks
• Simulation of Networks
• Semantic Web
• AI / Robotics / Gaming
• Sumo Wrestling and Battle Royal Competitions

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Events _at_ IBA

• Conferences
• Seminars
• Guest Speaker Sessions
• Corporate Dinners
• Alumni Functions

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ICICT - 2005
ICICT 2005/2007/2009 International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies
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Job Placement Support at IBA

• Compulsory Internships
• IBA Placement Office
• Alumni support network
• Graduate Directory
• Job postings (campus and website)
• Graduates drawing starting salary of 35K 60K

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IT Infrastructure

• The IBA has in recent years initiated major
  improvement in the IT Infrastructure in order to
  achieve the following
• High-end servers
• Completely licensed Software
• 24 hour e-mail accessible Internationally
• High-speed Radio links between the two campuses
  and hostels
• All Labs Classrooms Multimedia-ready

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IT Facilities

• 500 PCs
• All labs connected in High-speed LAN
• 100 coverage of WLAN on both campuses
• 4 labs in City Campus and 2 in Univ. Campus
• High-speed Internet access (34MB bandwidth) from
  the two campuses

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Automation at IBA

• IBA Intranet Portal
• Access to 17,000 Online research journals
• Access to 40,000 Online latest books
• IBA Research Portal
• Automation of various aspects of IBA including
• Student registration records
• Faculty evaluation
• Fee Management
• Online Admissions
• Online library books journals
• Complete New ERP implementation just launched

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Ongoing Projects

• Major Construction Projects underway to be
  completed in the next two to three years at a
  total cost of over 1 Billion Rupees
• Two new high rise buildings at the City Campus
• Center for Entrepreneurship at Main Campus
• Auditorium, academic block, classrooms
• Students' Hostels, Administration Block
• Libraries
• Visiting Faculty Residences

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Physical Facilities
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View of Main Campus
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Existing Library at Main Campus
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Proposed Library at Main Campus
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Proposed Library at Main Campus
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Computer Lab City Campus
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Video Conferencing Room City Campus
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New Class Rooms at City Campus
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Additional Information
Faculty of Computer Science 111-677-677 Ext
1222,1223 Dr. Sayeed Ghani Ext 1331 IBA website
www.iba.edu.pk e-mail info_at_iba.edu.pk Testing
Department [phone]-422 IBA website
www.iba.edu.pk e-mail info_at_iba.edu.pk

• IBA (University Campus)
• Tel. No 111-422-422

• IBA (City Campus)
• Tel. No 111-677-677