Quality of Curriculum in Business Schools

One cannot help but wonder why the quality of Pakistan’s university education is looked down upon all over the world, when almost all other countries in our immediate South Asian neighbourhood are treated with far better regard. While how we fare outside Pakistan is a cause of concern, a much more alarming situation is faced by students in the local job market. In the increasingly competitive world of recruitment and selection, most university students fail to do well. Even those who are lucky enough to find jobs, end up losing them, or hit the glass ceiling. Causes can be traced to the six years of education that these students receive before trying their luck in the professional arena. Employers complain that fresh graduates hardly know what to do on the job in a situation which is completely different from what they are prepared for in college through learning from books.

One cannot but fail to lay some blame on the curriculum of business schools in Pakistan, as it gives a lot of information, but very little encouragement to students. They are hardly pushed to think independently, or tested with elements that they are likely to face while on the job, and the students eventually end up as ‘knowers’ but not as ‘doers’. This problem needs to be addressed immediately to keep Pakistan from having a complete generation of business students, who have been wasted by the very system that claims to work for their improvement.