Department of Business Economics
The Department of Economics and Management was established under the Faculty of Business Studies in April 1997 after the elevation of Northern Province Affiliated University College, as Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna. It was a multi-disciplinary department that offered three honours degree programs, namely, Marketing Management, Human Resource Management and Business Economics. Further, the department introduced three-year general degree program in project management in 2015. On 18 th March 2021, the Department of Economics and Management was bifurcated into five new departments namely Department of Business Economics, Department of Human Resource Management, Department of Marketing Management, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, and Department of Project Management in order to offer five-degree programs. Accordingly, on 18 th March 2021, the Department of Business Economics was established. The department offers the Honours degree for undergraduate students, from 2006.
In today’s highly competitive and dynamic business environment, undergraduates following an honors degree in Business Economics have numerous opportunities to acquire the best positions nationally and globally. As in the world-leading universities, the curriculum of our degree program combines the knowledge and skills of economics, management, mathematics, statistics, decision science, and computer application. As a result, our graduates have occupied in various universities, colleges, research institutes, financial institutions, and private and public institutions.
Currently, the department is staffed with two Senior Lecturers, one confirmed Lecturer and three (3) Temporary Assistant Lecturers. The academic staff in the department are specialized in different fields such as environmental and resource economics, financial economics, econometrics and statistics, development and agricultural economics, behavioral economics, and social choice and game theory. Further, the department signed MOU with Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (IBSL) on 29.03.2022.
Head / Department of Business Economics
T.P No: 024-2228234