Is an MBA in Rural Management really confined to only Rural Management or is it possible to move to other sectors?

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    Bharat Rajpoot | Contributor-Level 9

    2 years ago
    The rural management MBA programme focuses on rural areas, cooperatives, agribusiness, and similar fields. The scope of an MBA in Rural Management, however, is broad and not limited to employment in the rural sector only. Regardless of the specialization, the focus of the MBA programme stays the same that is in any management specialisation, you are taught marketing, finance, human resources, and operations. When students enrol in courses in Rural Management, they receive instruction in all aspects of business and management, so the scope of employment is not restricted to rural areas only. The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA
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  • There is no constraint whatsoever. And in most cases, students with rural management background understand the rural markets way better than their counterparts from mainstream management institutions. But corporate world is not what education in rural management prepares you for. It's aim is to provide management talent to institutions working in development space, or create social change engineers who spawn their own developmental organisations. I'd suggest go for a mainstream MBA if you want to have comparative advantages in corporate world.

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