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how to apply for company secretary course after graduation

this is posted by umeaskarthick.........
hello...


You can do the course from Institute of Company Secretaries of India.


* Students from any stream can apply for 8-month Foundation Program.
* A candidate, who has graduated with fine arts, can not apply for Executive Programme.
* After you pass the Executive level, you can begin studying the Professional Programme.
* A candidate with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Commerce or Corporate Secretaryship need not pass the Foundation program. The same applies for pass-outs of the final exam of ICWAI or ICAI in India as well as any Accountancy school recognized by the Council as an equivalent one.

Admission Procedure for ICSI:

* You can enroll for the CS program any time in a year, the exams of which are held in June as well as December.
* You can collect the prospectus from the ICSI offices by paying Rs 200 or Rs 300 by cash for Foundation and Executive programs respectively. If you want to collect by post or courier, you can send a D.D of Rs 250 or Rs 350 respectively. The D.D should be payable at New Delhi and drawn in favor of 'The Institute of Company Secretaries of India'.
* The last date for admission to Foundation level is 31st March or 30th September while the cut-off date for Intermediate course is 28th February or 31st August.

Fee Structure of ICSI:

You need to spend Rs 3,600 for the foundation program. A commerce graduate can pay a fee of Rs 7000 for Executive program and a non-commerce graduate, Rs 7750.

For details about courses you can visit
http://www.indiaedu.com/career-courses/company-secretary-courses/
http://www.icsi.in/



Look as far as CS is concerned it is an administrative job.
There are two ways to become CS
1. after 12
2. After graduation.

Since you are a graduate you can become CS by second method.
There are 73 centres run by Institute of Company secretary of India.
After graduation you have to pass two stages after registration for this course.
First is executive course
Second is professional Program
You need not to do foundation course.
Any stream graduate can appear for it except fine arts graduate.
This course is mode of distance learning only.
ADMISSION PROCEDURE

The exams are conducted twice a year in june and december
For executive program you need to register yourself for it.
Suppose for december 2011 exam you need to register before or latest by 28 february and for june 2012 you need to register on or before 31 august 2011.
COURSE PROFILE
you will have to study 6 papers in it
which are

genral and commercial law
cost and mangement accounting
tax Lawww
security laws
etc

After completing it you need to do professional course
which has 8 papers
after completing executive and professional course you need to go for practical and mangement training
After which you will become company secrtary


all the best.......