TU BBA Internship Report Format: The FOM Structure, Evaluation and Front Matter
6 October 2026 · 8 min read
The internship is the last major piece of the Tribhuvan University BBA. Under the Faculty of Management's curriculum for batches from 2021, it is the course MGT 350 Internship: an eight-week placement in the final semester, after which each student submits an individual report by the end of the eighth semester. This guide covers TU's FOM format specifically. Pokhara University's format differs, and we cover it separately.
What the curriculum says, including where it contradicts itself
Duration: eight weeks in an organisation, in the eighth semester.
Output: an individual report. Group reports are not the format, even if several of you are placed at the same bank.
Evaluation: three components — the organisation's confidential report on you, your written report, and a presentation.
Credits: the curriculum text describes the internship as carrying a weight equivalent to 6 credit hours, but its credit table lists MGT 350 at 3 credits. The table also lists a separate PRJ 350 Summer Project, so do not confuse the two.
Minimum grade: the curriculum says “C” in one place and “B” in another, and FOM's internship format also says “B”. Treat B as the safe target, and ask your campus which applies.
FOM's five-part report structure
FOM publishes a common internship report format for its programmes. The body has five parts:
1. Introduction: background, objectives of the internship, and methodology — how you selected the organisation, your placement and department, the duration, and the activities you performed.
2. Brief introduction of the industry: the sector in Nepal, such as commercial banking, insurance, hydropower or FMCG, with its size, regulator and current issues.
3. Brief introduction of the organisation: history, ownership, structure, products and services, and recent performance from published figures.
4. Analysis of activities done and problems solved: what you actually did, department by department, and what you found. This is the part that carries the marks.
5. Conclusion: the lessons you learnt, tied to specific tasks.
References come after the body. FOM's format does not list the preliminary pages. Campus templates typically put a title page, declaration, supervisor's recommendation, the organisation's internship completion letter, acknowledgements, an executive summary, and the contents and lists of tables and figures in front of the body. Use your campus's own order.
What your organisation is rating
The confidential report from your organisation is a short form scoring you from 1 to 5 on five items: regularity, performance, contribution to problem solving, behaviour, and overall impression. Two of those, regularity and behaviour, are earned simply by turning up on time and being easy to work with. Contribution to problem solving rewards interns who ask for a real task early rather than waiting to be given one.
Making Part 4 analysis, not a diary
Most weak reports turn Part 4 into a week-by-week diary: “Week 2: worked at the customer service desk.” Instead, describe a process you saw, measure something about it, and relate it to a concept from your coursework. If you opened accounts, how long did KYC take, and where did it stall? If you worked in credit, what documents caused most loan files to be returned? One process analysed well is worth more than ten activities listed.
Keep notes every day during the placement. Reconstructing eight weeks from memory produces exactly the generic report examiners mark down.
Formatting
FOM's BBA documents do not specify page layout. A 2026 internship report template on the TU portal for the BPA programme, which uses the same five-part outline, specifies A4, Times New Roman 12 point (16 point for the title), 1.5 line spacing, justified text, margins of 1.25 inches on the left and 1 inch elsewhere, and APA style. That is a reasonable default for a BBA report until your campus says otherwise.
Why TU BBA reports get sent back
Part 4 written as a diary, with no analysis or problem.
Parts 2 and 3 copied from the organisation's website or annual report. These sections score high on a similarity check, so paraphrase and cite them.
Confidential figures published without permission. Ask your supervisor what you may include.
Lessons in Part 5 that are generic (“I learnt teamwork”) rather than tied to a task.
A missing supervisor recommendation, or a missing completion letter where your campus requires one.
Mixed reference styles, or an annual report quoted without a citation.
Finished your placement and need help turning your notes into a report? Send your draft or notes on WhatsApp at +977 9768768340. We will review it against FOM's five-part structure and run a similarity check on the industry and organisation sections.
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Tell us what you need checked and when it is due. Your document is checked without being stored in any student-paper repository, so the check never counts against your real submission. The reports come back with what each match means, not just a percentage.
Plagiarism report — The full similarity report on your assignment, proposal or chapter: every matched source listed, every flagged passage marked, and a plain read of which matches matter and which are your reference list doing its job.
AI report — The AI writing indicator read separately from similarity, because the two scores behave differently. If the flag looks like a detector artefact on work you wrote yourself, we tell you so, and what evidence answers it.
Thesis report — Similarity and AI reports for a full thesis or dissertation, run chapter by chapter so a problem in the literature review is found while you can still fix it, with each flagged passage explained for your supervisor.