International Business
The rapid integration of the economics of the world and the globalization of business under the WTO charter pose major challenges to those who would be leaders in tomorrow’s business world. The evolving global environment demands highly skilled managers with knowledge of international business practices, cultures, finance, marketing, and economics and information technology. There is also a need to develop manpower to evaluate risk and adapt business practices to conform to different cultural and political environments across nations. In this background, the University of Dhaka in a meeting of the academic council held in October 2006 approved setting up of a department named “International Business”. The Department has started functioning from the academic session 2007-2008.
The Department aims to create skilled and trained human resources in the field of international business, to provide experts to multinational corporations including international banks, NGOs and government agencies and international organizations such as World Bank, IMF and UN agencies, to conduct academic research in the area of international business and to offer training programmes and provide consulting services to various clients, donor agencies and UN organizations.
The department will offer three programs: BBA (four year), MBA (one-year) and EMBA (eight semesters) with specialization in International Business.