Business Management Studies

If you choose M.Pharma:
You should specialise in any branch of pharmaceuticals such as pharmaceutics, Analysis, biotech, chemistry, pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy or any other department of pharma product life cycle.
The career graph will be slow and steady, with steady growth with no roller coaster type ups and downs. This does not mean that your salary will be less, but you will follow a typical graph of a career growth, well paid if you choose MBA. Then also specialisation applies, where you will really study a new branch all together, it may be HR, operations, finance, marketing, tech, management, etc.Here depending upon your skills, you can get jobs in all companies including pharmaceutical companies, you have a broader scope post MBA. The career graph will be a roller coaster, with ups and downs, based on your knowledge, skills & attitude.

Have you taken admission after clearing OpenMAT exams? If not then the validity of it is over. You are supposed to appear again for OpenMAT exam. But if you had taken admission then you can re-register for the course again. This is what has been given in the "Student Hand Book & Prospectus of Management Programme" IGNOU:-
Validity of OpenMAT score:
Candidates who have qualified for admission on the basis of the score obtained in the Entrance Test (OPENMAT) will be eligible to seek admission into Management Programme in any of the following two semesters. For example, a student who qualifies for admission in August 2017 OpenMAT may take admission in any of the following two semesters i.e., either in January 2018 or July 2018 semester. Similarly one who qualifies in February 2018 OpenMAT may take admission in July 2018 or January 2019 semester. The last dates for submission of the Application Form (Form-2) for Admission to these semesters are as follows:
For those qualifying August 2017 Test For 1st Sem. 2018 (January 2018) 30th November, 2017# (OPENMAT-XLII) For 2nd Sem. 2018 (July 2018) 31st May, 2018
For those qualifying February 2018 Test For 1st Sem. 2018 (July 2018) 31st May, 2018 (OPENMAT-XLIII) For 2nd Sem. 2019 (January 2019) 30th November, 2018
You can download the same by going through the undermentioned link:-
MBA Prospectus 2018 – IGNOU