{"id":1642,"date":"2017-06-21T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/?page_id=1642"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:59:35","slug":"about-the-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/about\/about-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"46 Years of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stablished in <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1980<\/span><\/strong>, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">BSc Honours in Business Administration<\/span>, a three-year external degree, a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">BSc Business Studies (General) External<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Degree,<\/span> and an <span style=\"color: #800000;\">MPhil (Business)<\/span>. Moreover, we offer courses across a broad range of subjects,\u00a0including\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Management, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy, and International Business.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our Department members are active in research across broad areas of Management and Organisation Studies. To enrich the Department&#8217;s research culture, it has organised its research activities under the <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Research Centre for Business and Society (RCBS)<\/span>. The key activities of RCBS include conducting multidisciplinary research in management and organisational studies, securing research funding, publishing in high-impact journals, and supporting student research through supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stablished in 1980, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system.\u00a0We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, a BSc Honours in Business Administration, a three-year external degree, a BSc Business Studies (General) External Degree, and an MPhil (Business). Moreover, we offer courses across a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions\/4986"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}