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Title: Leaving Private MBBS (₹70L) for BBA + MBA — Am I Making the Right Decision?

I’m currently facing one of the biggest career decisions of my life and would really appreciate honest opinions, especially from people who have experience with MBBS, BBA/MBA, or management careers.

I have an option to pursue private MBBS in my hometown, which would cost around ₹70 lakh in total. However, I’m seriously considering leaving the medical path and joining BBA at Symbiosis, followed by an MBA from a stronger Indian or international university later.

The reason I’m considering management is not simply because MBBS is difficult.

I recently spoke with a career counselor, who assessed my interests and preferences across around 15 career areas. My results ranked roughly like this:

1. Management

2. Defence

3. Administration

   ...

4. Medical

So management came out as my strongest area of interest, while medicine ranked much lower.

Interestingly, I also consulted an astrologer who is highly educated (JNU, PhD) and has significant experience in astrology. Before I told him about the career-counseling results or my own preferences, he advised me to consider business/management or working with my father rather than pursuing MBBS.

I know astrology isn't a scientific way to make a career decision, so I don't want to base my choice solely on that. But it was interesting because his recommendation aligned with what the career counselor and my own thinking had already suggested.

Personally, I have also felt that I might be better suited to business, management, leadership, entrepreneurship, finance/strategy, etc. than medicine.

But I’m still scared that I might be making a huge mistake.

On one side:

Private MBBS

- Established professional career

- Doctor is a respected profession

- I already spent years preparing for NEET

- But around ₹70 lakh investment

- Long education/training period

- I’m not particularly passionate about medicine

On the other side:

BBA → MBA

- Potentially better aligned with my interests

- More flexibility in career options

- Possibility of entrepreneurship/business

- Could eventually pursue an MBA from a top institution

- But BBA itself doesn't guarantee a strong career

- MBA admissions and placements are competitive

- There is obviously more uncertainty

My current plan would be:

BBA at Symbiosis → build skills/internships/extracurriculars → prepare seriously for a good MBA → pursue MBA from a strong university/IIM or another reputed institution.

So I want some brutally honest opinions:

Am I making a sensible decision by choosing BBA + MBA over a ₹70 lakh private MBBS, considering that management appears to be much more aligned with my interests?

If you were in my position, what factors would you consider before making the final decision?

Please don't just say "follow your passion." I'd really appreciate practical opinions about career prospects, financial risk, job opportunities, long-term growth, and the reality of BBA + MBA versus private MBBS.

Thanks.

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Hello everyone,I can get both the colleges and would like some advice from someone who's studying there 🙏

First of all ,i know the kem is better in terms of academics but I want better life.if i choose kem then I need to be in small room of 4 which contradicts.also the hostel don't seem good.

Gorakhpur will give single room for me and it seems a decent city, there are only a few options to travel unlike Mumbai

guys is navodaya medical college better or east point, akash and oxford.

genuinely need help I'm in range to get these colleges

This is gonna be long, so bear with me.

So I studied BAMS and it's been like 2 years since I got my degree and, to be honest, I don't know what I studied in those 5.5 years.

I feel like I couldn't grab the whole knowledge of either aspect of the course, i.e. Ayurveda and modern medicine. Both are half-as***ed knowledge.

1. Modern medicine

   You get to study anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, medicine, pediatrics, gynecology & obstetrics — literally everything they teach in MBBS. But you will never find a single student who is studying those subjects in as much depth as MBBS students do, nor will you find professors who'll teach those subjects really well and with practical knowledge.

(There are exceptions, though — like me and some of my professors)

And even if you want to you won't get enough time to study them deeply because, of course, you have to study the useless Ayurvedic subjects too lol.

So my point is, we are only getting half knowledge of these modern subjects.

And you know what they say about half knowledge.

You are goddamn right. It's dangerous. (BB reference)

2. As far as Ayurvedic subjects are concerned

Most of the students getting admission to this course are the ones who had no other choice and couldn't get into mbbs

And yea, the Sanskrit and shlokas, etc., with the useless facts which don't even apply to the current era, the aatma, punarjanma in the very early days of the course....( oh god there are too many things ) after hearing and reading this, most students lose interest and study them only from an exam perspective.

Just enough so you could pass your exams.And this is vast and volatile syllabus because you'll never find a logic in any point, so you gotta keep revising and invest time which you rather would have invested in studying modern subjects but ah anyway

There, you got your half knowledge of Ayurveda as well.

Now you are 2X dangerous.

I know this is an Ayurvedic medical degree and Ayurveda has been part of India for 10 thousand years and how great is that and blah blah, but we don't live in ancient India right now.

We have evolved, and none of the things that existed in that era exist now. Well most of things yk like the medicinal plants , day to day life , the atmosphere.IYKYK.

I gotta tell you about the Samhitas. For the analogy, let's just say anatomy is a subject and there are different kinds of books you can follow, like BD Chaurasia, Gray's Anatomy, etc., and both books have different authors, right?

And they did their research and wrote the book.

Very similar to this, Rachana Sharir is Ayurvedic anatomy, and authors like Charaka, Sushruta, Vagbhata write their books (Samhitas), and what they wrote varies from every point.

And not just three — we have got a whole gang of 12 Samhitakars writing about the same thing in 12 different ways, and we have to learn what everyone has to say.

And all those differ so much from modern science.

To give an example, modern anatomy says there are 206 bones, Sushruta says there are 300 bones, Charaka says 360 and some other samhitakar says something else and there is no one who is correct

But we now know exactly how many bones there are in the human body.

Why do I have to study what this particular author said about the number of bones? And remember them and then give my Post graduation entrance exam.( AIAPGET ) dude I gotta rant about this exam too man.. let's keep it for another day

Are we studying history or the medical course?

If this was about history, I would've gladly studied and remembered that.

But we are here to know about diseases and how to treat patients, not read about the argument over how many bones there are in the body.

IMO, the whole curriculum and syllabus of this course is bullshit. Which has been going on since the introduction of this course in the medical field. It's stagnant since ancient times . People come people study people don't question people leave and carry on with same methods but no one comes forward and says I will do research , I will test the authenticity of this particular drug , or says we need better syllabus where we can get the best of both the aspects . I am so sick of this course and now my parents wants me to do post graduation like man gimme a break please i can not keep up with this shiz. Also rn it's 3.35 in the morning and I'm so high on sleep while writing this so feel free to point out mistakes I'll edit them later but I gotta let this out 😭 I could do a whole damn podcast about this tbh lmaooo

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