Commerce most sought-after course

Over the last decade, commerce has been one of the most soughtafter courses for university students. The globalization of economy and markets has fuelled the demand for commerce education in the country.

Today, commerce is a buzzword among students. As many as 57 Delhi University colleges offer commerce education. Mostly, students look for commerce colleges in Delhi University for two reasons. Firstly, students get a perfect blend of curriculum in commerce stream helping them in easy access to job market and secondly the choices available in the course structure, which makes the student a wellinformed individual. In DU, the BCom (Hons) under the CBCS scheme provides an opportunity for students to choose courses comprising 14 core papers (commerce domain), four discipline specific elective, four general elective (chosen generally by a student of other streams like Statistics and Physics) and two skill enhancement courses (value based or skill based courses aimed at providing hands on training).

In addition to this, there is a mandatory ability enhancement compulsory course that includes Environmental Science and English/MIL Communication). Core papers like Computer Applications in Business, Income Tax Law and Practice and the indirect taxes (forthcoming GST) equips students to handle real business and personal problems.

Traditionally, the job opportunities for commerce graduate were in academia, research institutions or as a Chartered Accountant. However, today apart from entrepreneurship, there is a tremendous demand for skilled managers and human resources not just in India, but across the world. Commerce education equips students to be good managers and leaders.