BS Entrepreneurship & innovation

Program Description

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation concentration provides a cross departmental set of skills analytical tools perspectives and experiences to prepare students for careers as autonomous entrepreneur’s family business entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in corporate settings. Whether a student wants to start a business while in school join an emerging business or set the groundwork to launch a new firm later in a career the concentration prepares students for all these exciting options by examining both entrepreneurial innovation and its surrounding ecosystem. Entrepreneurial skills and thinking are actively sought by more competitive and profitable growing businesses. The special strength of this program at PAF-IAST is that it combines theory with practice providing students the opportunity to test the theories models and strategies learned in the classroom by creating real business plans working on other field projects and gaining access and insight from leaders in the entrepreneurial business community.

Why Study at PAF IAST?

Location and Ambience

PAF IAST is nestled in natural mountains that flank its campus from all sides. The institute offers one  ravishing view of snow-capped peaks of Nathiagali and natural winding trails. Furthermore, to its north-west is Tarbela Lake, a journey of only a few kilometers from the campus. Moreover, set in the middle of the campus is a natural lake, fed by the springs of surrounding mountains. The campus is just a 3-kilometer drive from the Hazara Motorway. This results in an ideal setting equally conducive to academic activity. Most importantly, major cities like Islamabad, Abbottabad, are just an hour’s drive, while small towns like Wah, Hasanabadal, Taxila, and Swabi can be reached in just half an hour. All these features make PAF IAST the best biomedical sciences university in KPK. 

Technology Advancement and Foreign Partnership

This institute is an emerging center of excellences, with its own technology park. Therefore, all faculty members hold PhD degrees in appropriate disciplines. By virtue of its wide array of facilities and the facilitation for its students to learn. Furthermore, they benefit both from classroom teaching and faculty trained at premier Austrian universities/institutions. The institution is ideally cut out for imparting state-of–the-art engineering and allied education in Pakistan. Moreover, the institute enjoys close linkages with top ranking universities in Austria and China. As a result, we have already concluded with them formal agreements regarding student and faculty exchange programs, provision of dual degrees in certain areas, and the training support from foreign faculty. 

Academia-Industry Relationship

There is a strong relationship between academia and industry. As a result, this paves the way for job opportunities for students even in the midst of their studies. PAF IAST will serve as a welcome platform for the industry to share their requirements for a skilled workforce. Therefore, this will enable the institute to incorporate their valuable inputs in practical vocational training and expose the students to industrial perspectives.

On-Spot Industry Internship

Firstly, it will be a mandatory requirement for every student to do an internship every semester in an appropriate industry. Secondly, this will garner them practical experience related to their respective degree programs. To crown it all, Technology Park will afford them rare opportunities to apply themselves innovatively and become promising entrepreneurs.

Need and Merit-based Scholarships

Different types of local and foreign scholarship opportunities are available on need and merit base.

Associated Careers

For the aspiring entrepreneurship and business leader, a business management degree is consistently a popular choice across the globe. It provides the academic knowledge and skills to pursue global career opportunities and helps you to develop a broad understanding of business and specific areas.

But if you are still not 100% sure if a business management degree is for you here are some reasons that will convince you:

Our degree programs shall develop the following key management skills 

  • Critical and Strategic Thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Presentation and communication.
  • Analysis and report writing
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Leadership and Decision Making
  • Project Management

Course Curriculum

Semester 1

Course Code

Courses

CHs

ENG-111

English I (Composition Writing )

3

SS-111/310

Islamic Studies/Ethics

3

BUS-107

Business Mathematics

3

Comp-102

Introduction to Computing

3

BUS-103

Fundamentals of Accounting

3

SS-

Fundamentals of Sociology

3

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 2

Course Code

Courses

CHs

ENG-113

English III  (Academic Reading & Writing )

3

SS-112

Pakistan Studies

3

BUS-191

Business Statistics

3

SS-

Micro Economics

3

BUS-101

Fundamentals  to Management

3

BUS-222

Financial Accounting & Reporting

3

 

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 3

Course Code

Courses

CHs

ENG-112

English II  (Professional Communication & Presentation Skills )

3

SS-

Macro Economics

3

BUS-104

Fundamentals of Marketing

3

BUS-231

Cost Accounting

3

BUS-102

Fundamentals Business Finance

3

SS-113

Introduction to Psychology

3

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 4

Course Code

Courses

CHs

BUS-108

Business Communication

3

SS-

Contemporary Affairs of Pakistan Economy

3

BUS-211

Human Resource Management

3

BUS-112

Financial Management

3

SS-

International Relation & Current Affair

3

BUS-251

Entrepreneurship

3

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 5

Course Code

Courses

CHs

BUS-201

 

Business Laws and Practices

3

BUS-312

Leadership

3

BUS-342

Entrepreneurial Marketing

3

BUS-381

Business Analytics

3

BUS-105

Ethics and Social Responsibility

3

BUS-352

Corporate Entrepreneurship

3

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 6

Course Code

Courses

CHs

COMP-333

Management Information System

3

BUS-301

Logic and Critical Thinking

3

BUS-341

Consumer Behavior

3

BUS-291

Business Research & Report Writing

3

BUS-353

Creativity and Innovation

3

BUS-351

Digital Entrepreneurship

3

Total Credit Hours

18

Semester 7

Course Code

Courses

CHs

BUS-411

International Business Management

3

BUS-451

Social Entrepreneurship

3

BUS-461

Project Management

3

 

Elective I

3

 

Elective II

3

                                     Total Credit Hours

15

Semester 8

Course Code

Courses

CHs

 

Elective III

3

 

Elective IV

3

 

 

 

BUS-452

Innovation Management

3

BUS-453

Business Venture Practicum

3

                                   Total Credit Hours

12