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Firstly, I would like to tell you that don't go for suggestions. It is a stage of your life where you have to take decisions according to your interests. The decision you take today will shape up your entire life. It will decide your success and failure. It will define who you will become tomorrow and how will you be recognised in the big fat world. Certainly, it is a decision that needs a lot of thinking and evaluation. A degree in mechanical engineering has recently become the most sought-after degree. One very important thing about mechanical engineering is that you can switch over to automobile engineering after completing mechanical engineering but you can't go for mechanical engineering after doing automobile engineering. In India, only a few colleges that are offering automobile engineering, So it will be a challenging task to get admission in top colleges who are offering automobile engineering. It's better that you go for mechanical engineering instead of automobile engineering. Tula's Institute is the best engineering college situated in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and also the placements have been very good over the years and the highest package went upto INR 20.34 LPA.

Both are graduate degree courses and the duration of both these courses is same, i.e. 3 years, choosing any one course is totally dependent on your interest. If you are interested in accounting field, then B.com would be the best course for you. But if your aim is to do MBA course then BBA would be the best for you.
After completing B.Com, you can also go with MBA course but if you can do BBA then you will easily handle the MBA course.
B.com is best for those who are interested in making their career in accounting and finance field but BBA course is for those who are interested in professional courses and interested to do MBA course in future.
Salary:-
I think, it depends on the grade / level of the college from where MBA is done. If you are doing MBA from IIMs, your starting salary would be above 20 lacs per annum. If you are doing MBA from other reputed colleges like XLRI, SP Jain, FORE School of Management, IIFT, your starting salary would be above 10 lacs per annum. If you are doing MBA from other local college, your salary would be around 3 to 5 lacs per annum.

From the analysis of previous year's exam papers, it can be seen that the most asked drugs from this section are Senna, Morphine and Vinca. Individuals must study all the concepts of these drugs; understand their mechanisms and their effects & uses. It is best to devote recurrent time periods to Pharmacognosy, so that candidates do not forget the concepts and details. Important topics of this section are-
Glycosides
Alkaloids
Volatile oils
Resins
Tannins
Carbohydrates
Tissue culture
Herbal drugs
Recommended books for Pharmacognosy:
Pharmacognosy by C K Kokate
The complete guide for Pharmacognosy by Trease and Evans
Pharmacology
Many students find this section very interesting. Topics from this section carry a lot of weightage in GPAT 2018. Aspirants must study drug interaction and mechanisms as well as unique side effects of drugs (not general side effects like body pain). For the chapter of Classification of drugs, candidates can use acronyms to remember the names. For eg:
Semisynthetic derivatives: Atropine Methonitrate, Homatropine, Hyoscine butyl bromide, Ipratropium bromide, Tiotropium Bromide (AHITH)
Quaternary compounds: Propanthaline, Clidimium, Oxyphenonium, Pipenzolate methyl bromide, Isopropamide, Glycopyrolate (PCO PIG)
Important topics of this section are:
Oncology (drugs for chemotherapy, upcoming technologies, etc.)
Neuropharmacology and rare diseases
Cardiovascular and Blood products
Recommended books:
Essential of Medical Pharmacology by K D Tripathi
Pharmaceutical Analysis
This section is relatively easy and only requires understanding of concepts. Aspirants must practice solving numerical problems. Note down formulae and mug it up. Important topics are:
UV, IR and NMR
Mass Spectroscopy
Chromatography
Polarography and Polarimetry
Flame Photometer
Conductometry
Amperometry
Potentiometry
Recommended books:
Spectroscopy and Titration by Chatwal
Chromatography by Remington
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The questions asked from this section are very basic and only require conceptual clarity. Applicants should focus on organic chemistry in this section. Study electrophilic, nucleophilic reactions (substitution and addition) and intermediate reactions. Important topics are:
SAR of steroids
Nomenclature and chemical moiety of the medicinal drugs
Recommended books:
Basic Organic Chemistry by Morrison Boyd
Medicinal chemistry by S N Pandey
Pharmaceutics
This section is very essential for all students appearing in GPAT 2018.