DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Overview

RATIONALE

The purpose of Diploma in Business management is to train persons who wish to purse career in business management.  As a result of stiff competition in the market, all forms of business require professional management.  While the public universities have concentrated in providing degrees in this area, a real gap has been noticed at the Diploma level.  Before the temporary closure of most of the programmes in the Department of Extra-Mural studies in 1988, many useful courses were offered to the general public.  The Public has continued to ask for more courses that are taught and examined by the University of Nairobi.  The extra mural department offers a special connection in training, to the university and the general public.

This course, which is both theoretical and practical, gives the university the opportunity to enter this field and provide business training throughout the country.  It aims at filling the gaps identified above and is orientated to meet real needs of the labour market.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The Diploma in Business management aims at:-

1. Developing the human resources base needed for industrialization.

2. Giving skills for efficient management of business

3. Creating a base for the graduates to proceed to higher business management professional courses in the university.

This programme is offered by the Department of Open Learning under various modes of study: these are, day classes, evening classes and online classes in the three campuses (Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu)

  1. The course is divided into three semesters of four (4) months.
  2.      The students will take all eleven (11) course units.
  3.       Each course unit will be covered in 45 contact hours of study
  4.       The course will be delivered through lectures and tutorials.
  5.       The course will take one calendar year.
  6.       No candidate will be registered in this course for more than six semesters                                    (equivalent to 2 years).
  7.       The students will be expected to carry out a Research Project which will constitute two                units.
  1. KCSE grade C and above with C- in Maths or Business Studies or Commerce or Accounting or Economics AND C- in English or Kiswahili
  2. KCE/EACE Division II with a Pass in Maths or Business Course & one language
  3. ‘A’ level with at least 2 (two) Subsidiary Passes
  4. KCSE mean grade C- OR KCE/EACE DIV. III with a Professional Certificate* from a recognized Institution

*The certificate must have been undertaken for at least one semester from an institution recognized by the university of Nairobi senate

Business management

Semester I - 52,000.00*

Semester II - 38,000.00*

Total - 90,000.00*

* This is an indicative figure. Current Fee structure can be obtained from any of the University of Nairobi Campuses or a request can be made via cessp-g3@uonbi.ac.ke

Exam Regulations
  1. EXAMINATION REGULATIONS
    1. The examination will be governed by the general examinations regulations of the University of Nairobi
    2. For the award of the Diploma in Project Planning and Management, a candidate will be required to pass in all prescribed course units taken.
    3. Each course unit shall be examined by a 1 x 2 hour written examination at the end of the semester during which the course was offered.
    4. The written examination shall constitute 70% of the marks in each course unit while course work constitutes 30%
    5. Course work assessment shall comprise assignment and test
    6. The pass mark shall be 40%
    7. A candidate who fails to satisfy the examiners in any unit, with a mark below 40% may, on the recommendation of the Board of Examiners and approval of Senate, sit for a supplementary examination in the failed paper during the next semester examinations.
    8.  A candidate who fails in the supplementary examination(s) shall be required to repeat the failed units
    9.  A candidate shall only be allowed to repeat a course unit for three semesters.
    10. The project will be marked out of 100%.  The pass mark shall be 40%.  The project will be graded by the appointed supervisor.
    11. A candidate who fails to satisfy the examiner in the project with a mark below 40% may, on the recommendation of the board of examiners and approval of senate, re-submit the project.
    12. A candidate shall be allowed to re-submit the project for a maximum of three semesters.
    13. A candidate shall only be allowed to repeat a maximum of three course units in a semester

Any candidate who fails in more than three units in a semester shall be discontinued