Can Engineers do well in Management Professions as well?

 ‘What we do after we know it all matters’

Engineering students are best suited for management courses too. In the last 15 years, I have taught courses like accounting, financial management, economics, and business law to engineering students with equal ease.  I have found that their ability to pick up ideas, ideate, memorize and analyse is far superior to those with a commerce background. The same is the case with students with Agri-Business background or any other science discipline. My observation is that these types of students are ‘wired’ mentally in a special way. Most of the leading chartered accountants are with a science background. Leading lawyers practicing in High Courts and Supreme Court are again with science stream. Take the case of our former RBI governor, Dr. Raghuram Rajan, who is B.Tech, PGDM from IIM, and Ph.D. in finance. He made it to the top and presently after working as RBI governor, he is now teaching in a business school in US. Science and technology prepare you to pick up a challenging management career.



You may be aware that without a sound grounding in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, and Finance one cannot make it to a management course. If you are an engineer and like to pursue a management course, do work for about 3 years in a Corporates/Companies and come back to B  School.  Your exposure to management subjects after a practical stint in work situations make your study all the more practical, industry-relevant, case oriented and ground to earth.

NMIT Bengaluru is one such Top Engineering College in Bangalore that encourages engineering students to have exposure to management subjects, For instance, one of the open electives offered to them is’ Economics and Finance Management’. Again here I had the opportunity of teaching them Finance management for about 40 hours. Even while I taught them online due to pandemic compulsion, students were able to connect themselves so keenly. The comprehension level is of a high order. I am not suggesting that one should pick up a management course right away. One will do well to acquire ‘appreciation knowledge’ if not ‘expert knowledge’ in the domains of finance and others.  Today there are so many courses coming up online. The fee is either nil or negligible while the payoff is huge.

Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru is one of the most sought after Engineering Colleges.  It is rated 128th in NIRF Ranking.

It has an excellent industry connection and placement record. Students studying here can explore the possibilities for management courses at an opportune time.


Dr. N J Shetty, Ph.D., M.Com, MBA, MA(Psy), PG. DHRM, PG. DMM, LL B, CAIIB, D. TD,   Pragya.

Professor, Nitte School of Management, Certified NLP Practitioner, Certified Life Coach, Certified OD Coach.

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