30 August 2026 · 9 min read
The internship report is the last substantial document most Pokhara University BBA students write, and it arrives at the point in the programme where there is least time to get it wrong. Searching for the format turns up several different templates in circulation — one from a senior, one from a different college, one from a general BBA guide written for a different university altogether — and they do not agree with each other. The first section below is about which document actually binds you, because that is the question underneath the search.
Pokhara University is an affiliating university. Most BBA students are enrolled at a PU-affiliated college rather than at the university's own campus, and it is the college — through its BBA programme office or internship coordinator — that issues the report guideline you are marked against. That document outranks everything else, including anything in this guide.
Collect the current issued version at the start of the internship, not at the end. Guidelines are revised between batches, and working from a senior's copy is the single most common reason a formally competent report is returned for reformatting.
The students who write these quickly are not faster writers. They collected the material while they were still inside the organisation, when it was available to them, and assembled it afterwards. Once your placement ends, the organisational chart, the departmental workflow you observed, the figures you were permitted to note and the answers your supervisor gave you are all gone — and reconstructing them from memory produces the vague, describe-everything report that reads as filler.
Keep a dated log from day one: which department, what you did, what you observed about how the work actually flows, and any question you asked and the answer you got. Photograph public material — organisational charts, annual reports, brochures. Those notes become your activities chapter almost directly, and the questions become your analysis.
Front matter is where reports get sent back, because it is checkable in thirty seconds without reading anything. The usual sequence:
Preliminary pages are normally numbered in lowercase roman numerals and the body restarts at arabic 1. A table of contents whose page numbers do not match the body is the most frequent single correction, and it happens because the contents page was written before the final edit rather than regenerated after it.
Some colleges split activities and analysis into separate chapters, giving five rather than four. Follow the split your guideline uses; the content is the same either way.
Describing what you did earns a pass. Analysing it is what separates reports, and it is the chapter most students under-write because it is the only part that cannot be assembled from a log. The move is to take one thing you genuinely observed and read it through a concept from your own coursework.
If you were placed in the customer service function of a commercial bank, the queue you watched every morning is a service-delivery problem you have vocabulary for. If loan files moved slowly between departments, describe the actual workflow, name the point where it stalls, and say what the delay costs. One observation carried properly through description, analysis and a recommendation is worth more than ten pages that describe every department in turn and analyse none of them.
Length is set by your college and the range in circulation is wide — anywhere from around thirty pages to sixty or more depending on the programme. Do not treat a figure you heard from another college as your target; check what your guideline says, and if it gives a range, write to the middle of it rather than padding to the top.
The typing conventions are the easy marks. A standard serif or sans body face at 12 point, 1.5 line spacing, justified text, a wider binding margin on the left, consistent heading levels, and tables and figures numbered by chapter with their captions in the right place — table captions above, figure captions below. Referencing is normally APA for PU business programmes, applied consistently in both the in-text citations and the reference list. Mixing two styles inside one document is visible immediately.
Banks, insurers and larger companies restrict what an intern may publish, and this matters more than students expect. Ask your organisational supervisor what you may include before you write it, anonymise client details and any figure you were not given permission to use, and never reproduce an internal document in an appendix without being told you can. A confidentiality breach in a submitted report is a problem for you and for the person who supervised you.
For the general method behind any BBA internship report — how to collect material during the placement and build the analysis chapter — see our chapter-by-chapter internship report guide. If you are at a PU college and want the structure, analysis and formatting reviewed against your own issued guideline before you submit, Assignment Nepal can go through the draft with you — message us on WhatsApp at +977 9768768340.