BA Karachi awards degrees to 926 students on annual convocation 2019.

The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi held its annual convocation 2019 at the main campus to confer degrees to 926 graduates. The graduating batch included 673 undergraduate students from six programs, 252 postgraduate students from seven programs, and one PhD scholar.

The Chief Guest of the ceremony was Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Co-Founder, The Citizens Foundation (TCF) Mr. Mushtaq Chhapra attended as Guests of Honour.

Executive Director IBA, Karachi Dr. Farrukh Iqbal congratulated the graduating students and their families and announced that 80 percent of the Institute's current graduating batch has attained employment of their choice within three months of graduation. Addressing the audience, Dr. Farrukh Iqbal announced that the first cohort of BS Economics and MS Journalism are graduating and will enter the job market. Furthermore, he said that the IBA is the first Institute to offer a specialized degree in Journalism.

Mr. Chhapra applauded the IBA's initiative to start the Responsible Citizen Initiative (RCI) or Social Internship and many institutions of higher learning are following in the footsteps of the IBA. He highlighted the diversity at the IBA and mentioned that many graduates of TCF have obtained education from the IBA through its financial assistance program. He also said, "Life is not about being rich, popular or highly educated, it's about being real. It's all about being humble and being kind."

Mr. Khuhro said that...

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