Good to hear that you are interested in doing a professional course like the MBA or CS. I shall explain on them both here in detail.

Choosing an MBA: Masters in business and administration is a professional management degree and is often suitable for people who have a minimum of three year work experience and are also aiming to progress in their career ladder by completing a professional qualification. An MBA will offer promotional status in job as well as with better hike in annual pay. It also takes a person completely into management side of a business rather staying at technical side. If you are interested in business, managing people, managing finance, influencing people and managing budgets then this is the right course for you. If you are with a minimum of three years work experience then you can be suitable for general MBA with any specialisation. Students often have Human resources, marketing, operations management, project management, supply chain management, accounts and finance as choice subjects and studying one of them, you get to be specialised in that particular stream. Alternatively if you are a person with more than ten years of work experience, then you are highly suitable to study Strategic management or the Leadership MBA. An MBA is a professional accreditation for students willing to work in business and management. To study an MBA, students should ideally complete a bachelors degree in any subject and hold at least two-three years of work experience. After this, you can prepare for CAT/ MAT/ XAT exams and depending on your score you can be placed at top B-schools.

The second option that you have quoted is the Corporate Secretaryship CS program. This is a program that ideally matches only commerce student and not students from any other background. Therefore to be eligible to study for a CS, you should definitely study Commerce subjects at school level and then study Bcom with company secretaryship at college level. It is a three year bachelors degree. There are many stages in aiming for a CS career.

• Students with 12th level pass: After completing 12th, you can appear for Foundation program in CS.
• Students with Bachelors degree: After completing Bachelors degree, you should undergo two stages of program known as executive program and professional programme. To appear for CS exams, you should contact Institute of Company Secretaries of India, as they are the ones conducting this exam.

You can choose to either do an MBA/ CS. But if you are interested in going into management side, MBA is suitable. If you are interested in Commerce and secretaryship then CS is best for you. Hope this helps.