Established in 1980, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system. We remain the largest academic Department of the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. In its long history, our Department has immensely contributed to the progress of management education, the corporate sector, and the wider society of Sri Lanka. Its alumni include renowned corporate leaders, scholars, businesspersons, government officials, and community leaders. Currently, our internal student population is nearly eight hundred undergraduates.
We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, BSc Honours in Business Administration, and a three-year external degree, BSc Business Studies (General) External Degree. Recently, the Department also introduced MPhil (Business) Degree. Moreover, we offer courses across a broad range of subjects, including Management, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy, and International Business, and play a unique and significant role within the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce by providing teaching and research support to students in other departments and postgraduate programmes.
Our Department members are active in research across broad areas of Management and Organisation Studies. In order to enrich the research culture of the Department, the Department has organised its research activities under three clusters: the Cluster for Organisation & Society (COS), the Cluster for Leadership & Strategy (CLaS), and the Cluster for Knowledge Management & Business Innovation (CKMBI). The research clusters provide a scholarly platform for local and global researchers as well as the members of the Department to share their ideas and work. Further, the clusters facilitate the members of the Department to engage mainly in collaborative research.