The Commonwealth Executive MBA (CEMBA) aims at developing South Asian Commonwealth region. The Commonwealth Executive MBA (CEMBA) has been offered since the mid of the year 2002 through four prestigious South Asian open universities, namely Indira Gandhi National Open University, (IGNOU, India), Bangladesh Open University (BOU), Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU, Pakistan) and Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). These executive management programmes are specifically designed for highly competent and qualified candidates completely committed to self-development and those who strive to achieve greater professional heights. The Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration Test (CEMAT) is designed in such a way that it provides an additional aspect of measurement for the selection of the suitable students for this rigorous and demanding programme of management study.

It was designed, developed and implemented through collaboration between the four universities and writers from universities in Commonwealth countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The CEMBA program provides an opportunity to acquire both accreditation and valuable training for candidates who are resident of a participating country, or possess any sort of undergraduate degree. The program aims at providing a significant short- and long-term human and economic development pay-off for the South Asian Commonwealth region. All the candidates who are interested in making a career in the broad management field need to clear the Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration Test. CEMAT entrance test measures the aptitude of candidates for the meticulous and highly demanding program of post graduate management study.

Application Forms
Interested candidates can obtain the application form and prospectus by making cash payment from the admission counter. The application form can also be obtained by making a Demand Draft drawn in favour of IGNOU. The candidates need to submit the completed application form along with all the required documents. The notification about the distribution and last date of forms appear in all the leading dailies in advance. The last date of submitting the form must be noted.

Eligibility Criteria for CEMAT
The major eligibility criteria include an undergraduate degree with good scores (certain professional qualifications are considered as equivalent to a bachelor`s degree), minimum two years of relevant post-qualification experience and residency in any of the Commonwealth countries where the management program is offered. Moreover, good working knowledge of the English language is also required. Last but not the least; acceptable score on the CEMAT admission test is mandatory.

Courses Offered

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

These two innovative management programs comprise 15 highly weighted courses, which are categorized as core courses, specialist compulsory courses and elective courses. The various courses are as follows -

Core Courses

C-1 Management Information Systems

C-2 Management in Organisations

C-3 Managing Human Resources

C-4 Operations Management

C-5 Economic Environment of Business

C-6 Public Systems Management

C-7 Quantitative Techniques

C-8 Marketing Management

C-9 Accounting & Finance for Managers

Specialist Compulsory courses

CEMBA programme

> Public Policy
> Development Planning and Administration

CEMPA programme

> Strategic Management
> Quality Assurance Management

Elective Courses

E-1 Electronic Commerce

E-2 Project Management

E-5 Managerial Economics

E-7 Policy Analysis and Implementation

E-8 Contemporary Administrative Systems

E-9 Disaster Management

E-10 Corporate Finance

E-13 International Marketing

Pattern of Examination
CEMAT admission exam measures the aptitude of the prospective candidates. It includes multiple choice questions from following areas -
> General Awareness
> English Language
> Quantitative Aptitude
> Reasoning
Students need to successfully complete the test is one of the most important criteria for securing admission to this MBA programme.

SYLLABUS
There is no such pre-defined syllabus for Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration Test (CEMAT). Candidates need to prepare for the tests in accordance with the pattern of questions of the test that includes spheres like reasoning, general awareness, aptitude analysis and English language.

Selection Process
Candidates who will successfully complete the admission test would be eligible for admission for the next 2 cycles of the programmes for which the test scores are valid. The successful candidates need to complete the admission form for registration.

Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration Test (CEMAT) is the admission test for Commonwealth Executive MBA & MPA programmes.