Department of Project Management is a new arrival to the Faculty of Business Studies (FBS) with a gazette announcement on the 22nd of March 2021 by the Ministry of Education. The Project Management Degree program was run by the former Department of Economics and Management established in 1997, from 2015. This fresh DPM has three permanent senior academics and two assistant lecturers. The Project Management degree programme that was initially launched as a three-year Bachelor of Business Management in Project Management degree with the intake of students for the academic year 2014/2015 has been upgraded as a four-year Bachelor of Business Management Honours in Project Management from the academic year 2017/2018.
The FBS is proud to be the only Faculty running a degree program on the Island. The DPM looks forward to dynamically work with its sister departments such as the Department of Marketing Management, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Department of Human Resource Management, Department of Business Economics, Department of Finance and Accountancy, and Department of English Language Teaching for the successful attainment of its program objectives. In order to further strengthen the competencies and soft skills of its undergraduates, the DPM has been striving to design networks and collaboration with industries, professional bodies, and other national and foreign universities. In addition, it envisions the establishment of a postgraduate Centre and postgraduate program shortly that can further serve its passed-out graduates for further career development. The DPM believes its graduates have potential employment opportunities in public, private, and non-government organizations. The PM graduates can, in addition to common employment opportunities for graduates, be best suitable for specific positions such as project lead, project officer, project assistant, project field officer, program assistant, monitoring and evaluation officer, project team leader, etc. with the acquired academic competencies and soft skills.
Mr. S. Thirugnanasampanthar
Head / Department of Project Management