Diploma in Business Administration

Course Code: DBA

Level: Diploma

Duration: 2 Years

Business is any activity that one undertakes with an intention of making a profit, and ultimately accumulating wealth. This means that every academic discipline is business. One needs to appreciate the basic concepts of business, the computation of profits, the management of finances, and mobilization of capital, and ultimately the effective marketing of the goods or services.

The Diploma in Business Administration programme is aimed at developing competent business professionals with skills that can transform and profitably sustain businesses.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The Programme will develop the competency required to mobilize organize, direct, and control resources, in order to generate sufficient return to capital and to the owners of business.

The program aims at equipping learners with skills of effectively and efficiently perform their duties within the legal, ethical and tax regime environment of their current and/or future deployments.

This program is mainly targeting secondary school leavers and certificate level holders, who seek either a higher-level qualification in order the enhance their employment prospects, or who need a strong foundation qualification in business administration studies to prepare them for University studies in business, administration and management programmes.

MODULES

YEAR I SEMESTER I

• DBA111 Introduction to Business Administration
• DAF112 Financial Accounting I
• DBA113 Introduction to Economics
• DCS111 Introduction to Computing & IT
• DJM115 Communication skills

YEAR I SEMESTER II

• DBA121 Computers & Micro Computer Applications
• DAF122 Quantitative Methods
• DAF123 Business Finance
• DBA124 Business Economics
• DBA125 Principles of management

YEAR II SEMESTER I

• DAF211 Taxation
• DHR212 Organisational Behaviour
• DBA213 Business law
• DBA214 Research Methodology
• DBA212 Strategic Planning & Decision Making
• DCS213 Information Systems

YEAR II SEMESTER II

• DAF222 Audit theory
• DAF223 Cost Accounting
• DEI221 Entrepreneurship Skills
• DBA221 Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Business
• DBA225 Final Year Project/Thesis

Industrial training

• DBA226 Industrial Attachment (8 weeks)

CAREER PATHS

Students who undertake this program will have relatively wider Accounting and Financial Services employment opportunities, ranging from business administrators, business developmemt positions, business advisers and analyst positions. Typically, the graduates can work in organisations, commercial banks, non-bank financial institutions, Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), business enterprises and establishments, among other sectors with need for business administration service professionals to manage their businesses for improved their operations and performance. On the other hand, the programme also offers a great and firm foundation for one to become a business entrepreneur in their own right, and create employment opportunities for others.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Option A

The Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) with at least 1 principal pass and 2 subsidiary passes obtained at the same sitting or its equivalent

OR: A Certificate from a recognized institution of learning within the same, or in a related field.

Option B

The Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) with at least 5 credits obtained at the same sitting, or it’s equivalent.

COURSE FEES (PER ACADEMIC YEAR)

Semester I

Semester II