Why Students Across the Stream Should Apply for DU JAT

Due to the uniqueness and wholesomeness of the courses offered through this exam, DUJAT remains at the top list of students’ for making a better career choice.

By Ankit Kapoor

Uncertain career in today’s time remains unaltered among many students (Class 12^th pass) seeking a better and quality career. While the pandemic has restricted the functioning of educational institutions, a peer stress and tension has been surrounded by, among many students. Pertaining to this, DU JAT comes as a relief for aspirants aiming for undergraduate management courses.

Delhi University’s Joint Admission Test (DU JAT) is one of the most sought entrance exams conducted annually for admission to various management programs offered by DU.The exam is conducted across 18 cities for admissions to six colleges offering Bachelor of Management studies (BMS) and eight other colleges which offer BA (Hons) in Business Economics and BBA (FIA) programmes at DU’s affiliated institutes.

Unlike other Delhi University merit-based selection courses, any student from any stream can apply for this exam and mind it, no deduction for not having Management/Economics as a subject in Class 12th. Also, all the three-course curriculums are designed to bring in wholesomeness from the scratch. With a limited number of seats, admission to the courses require only 60% in Class 12^th that provides an opportunity to the students to prove their mettle in the written test. The aim is to analyse the theoretical understanding or skills of the student rather than just the merit base.

Why DU JAT?

Being the only medium to seek admissions to the top colleges in DU for various Undergraduate management programs, makes this one of its kind and favourite among aspirants. Due to the uniqueness and wholesomeness of the courses offered through this exam, DUJAT remains at the top list of students’ for making a better career choice.

1. Three-in-One Entrance exam – As the student needs to appear only for one exam which will act as a pathway to three finest courses in DU, is one of the best nuances. Students can get admissions in BMS- Bachelor of Business Studies; BBA (FIA)-BBA with specialization in Financial Investment Analysis and BA (business Economics).

2. The best learning experience– Besides placements, learning process, guest sessions, educational trips, help from the college authorities, alumni connection, etc. make this course worth more than million dollars. Further, if a student has an exemplary live project, it would then be taken care of by the college authorities so that the project goes out to the concerned and it is live and functioning.

• Industry interaction - It promotes a dialogue between student and industry leaders as a part of college culture. This is one of the most dynamic ways to keep the pedagogy with a healthy mix of theory and practical understanding. Also, a student can satiate his inquisitiveness by asking questions from the industry stalwarts.
• Eminent Guest Lectures - It empowers industry knowledge in a highly impactful and efficacious manner to students.  These guest lectures are from all lines and lengths of industries to government departments, and at times information comes from the horses’ mouth. This is unique to only a few colleges, who can boast of it.
• Annual Corporate Seminar - It is an interface between the company moguls and the students. This bridges the gap between management theory and practice in the real corporate world. Hence, a healthy mix of theory with practical exposure provides a new dimension learning for the student.

3. Best in Class Infrastructure - Ranging from campus to labs, classrooms to cliques, everything proves to be the best in class. Not to forget the copious library and infrastructural peripherals. All these are stepping stones in broadening the horizon of conducive understanding.     

4. LIVE Projects/Summer Internship - These are some of the best parts of the course curriculum. By the second and fourth semester internships, a student widens his perspective through exposure to real life, organizational and environmental situations. Here specific projects handled by the students provide them with the sense of confidence, exposure and recognition. Only if one performs successfully in internship, a student is allowed to appear for final placements. This requires extensive team work and collaborative efforts. Therefore, in this a student develops a sense of team spirit along with his individual contribution to the team.

5. Placements & Brand Association - One of the highest placement ratios and average package across the University of Delhi. The entire placement drive has a pool of big brands to work with. Ranging from Finance to Tech to Consulting to FMCG firms. They have the right to boast as the placement goes close to 100%, where the highest package for last year was whopping Rs 22 LPA. This is just an indication, that the quality that is being provided by the courses is recognized by the corporate world. To name a few, Bain, Mckinsey, AT Kearney, DE Shaw, Google, E&Y, etc. The learning with these brands and the association with them has a priceless learning that is incomparable.

6.Illustrious Alumni & Extracurricular Events - With such a wide base of alumni basket, every alumnus in turn has been creating managers who have within themselves the mettle to take on the challenges of the future. Each alumnus has the vision, knowledge and potential to thrive in the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity) world. These unparalleled events and competitions conducted at fairly large scale are supported by a number of corporates who sponsor such events due to the visibility it provides to them. This in turn gives a chance to the students to outshine themselves and be in limelight.

7.Seminars & Workshops - These work as the added booster dosages to the regular classroom teaching. These are by the experts of the industry who open their hearts to the receptive audience. Here company moguls bring in the core of their working and their decades of experience is condensed to just a few hours. This in turn makes students move away from the sense of knowledge complacency.

Students’ interaction plays a vital role in the success of any student with this course. The meeting of minds, ideas and stories take place in the teams where presentations ignite minds, briefs become springboards for path breaking strategies & teams come up with creative ideas.  During these interactions a student comes in contact with some of the brightest minds in terms of students & peer group.  These bring in other dimensions, horizons and another perspective to the learning process. 

So, all these unique and special features make DUJAT a popular exam among students across all streams. Looking into the difficulty level of the paper and number of students appearing for the exam vis-à-vis seats, it requires 12 months to 24 months of systematic study plan that should be in sync with your Class 11^th and Class 12^th study plan.

About the Author:

Mr. Ankit Kapoor is the Managing Director of Pratham Test Prep.

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