National Institute of Business Management (Sri Lanka)
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ජාතික ව්යාපාර කළමනාකාරීත්ව ආයතනය | |
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| Motto | Powering Great Minds |
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| Type | Business school |
| Established | 1968 |
| Chairman | V K Choksy |
| Director | Dr. D.M.A. Kulasooriya |
| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Coventry University (UK),
Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) |
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The National Institute of Business Management (Sinhala: ජාතික ව්යාපාර කළමනාකරණ ආයතනය, romanized: jātika vyāpāra kaḷamanākaraṇa āyatanaya) also known as NIBM, is a self-financing public business school based in Colombo, Sri Lanka functioning as a statutory body under the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education. Furthermore NIBM holds ISO – 9001-2008 certification. [1][2]
The institute was established in 1968 and offers Graduate, Post Graduate, Executive Education, Diploma and Certificate programmes in the fields of Information Technology, Business Management, Languages, Engineering, and Design. The MBA programme is the flagship programme of the institute and is offered in two year full time. NIBM has collaborated with Coventry University, UK and Limkokwing University, Malaysia in offering degree programmes.
The main campus is located in Colombo 07 and the four regional campuses are located in Galle, Kandy, Kurunegala, and Matara. The National Innovation Centre (NIC) that houses programmes in Design, Humanities, and Data Sciences is located in Kirulapone, Colombo.[3]
The National Institute of Business Management is headed by Dr. Gunathilake Tantirigama as Chairman and Dr. D. M. A. Kulasooriya as Director General.[4][5]
The Management Development & Productivity Centre (MDPC) was established as a means of producing trained and skilled personnel particularly in the field of Management. Based on a proposal submitted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by the Ministry of Industries, which was overseeing a large number of statutory boards and public corporations, the Management Development & Productivity Centre (MDPC) was established on 16 August 1968, in collaboration with the UNDP and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which acted as the executing agency of the MDPC. Thus, MDPC became the first ever management training institute of Sri Lanka.
In 1972, the center began to function under the name of National Institute of Management (NIM). NIM commenced its first Diploma programme in 1975 in Business Management and in the following year, the institute was incorporated as the National Institute of Business Management by an Act of Parliament (The National Institute of Business Management Law, No. 23 of 1976). The first Diploma in Computer System Design was inaugurated in the year of 1980.
In the year of 1996, BSc in Management Information Systems was commenced in collaboration with University College Dublin, Ireland. Subsequently, the first convocation ceremony of NIBM was held in the year of 1999.
In 2017, NIBM commenced four Undergraduate Degree programmes in collaboration with Coventry University, UK. In the same year, NIBM established the National Innovation Centre (NIC) in collaboration with Limkokwing University, Malaysia.
