National Institute of Business Management ,popular among us as "NIBM " proudly holds a history of 42 years (1968-2011) in the business of training and development and its vision is of becoming the best management education institute in Sri Lanka , while offering unmatched opportunities in management and Information technology education in the country.

Shahana Naufer Degree Award Winner (2011) BSc (Batch 13)

The stability of being a government institute and the customer centered culture practised by private sector, which NIBM has adopted provides students a modern customer driven education experience with an unmatched stability and high level of discipline. NIBM offers a wide range of internationally and locally recognized qualifications in various discipline at reasonable cost to the employed as well as to the school leaver in order to obtain the knowledge as well as the practical aspects needed for professional and personal development.

Synergy - NIBM and UCD
NIBM with the collaboration of University College Dublin (UCD) offers a Bachelor of Science in Management Information system, Bachelor of Science Business Management and Bachelor of Science Human Resource Management , this degree programme has been able to groom and develop many competent corporate to the present business environment.

There are few special factors which makes UCD degree offered through NIBM unique,. Firstly, the programme curriculum has been designed by the University College of Dublin and more than 70% of lectures were conducted by highly qualified Irish lecturers.

This allows the local students to experience an overseas education while being in Sri Lanka. Further it is a module based programme which allows the student to learn the subject matters in-depth and perform at their best during exams, assignments and presentation as they need to focus on one subject at a time. Also the curriculum is designed in a way where students' total results for the particular subject is made out of several components such a exams , pre course assignment , main assignment and presentation.

This allows them to work in groups and learn to respect diversity. Every student is a unique asset to NIBM and they respect that the student requires different learning methods. As a result they use several learning methods such as classroom lectures, case studies , student presentation , assignment and researches on corporate problems. Presently there are many employees who wish to obtain a degree and are unable to complete the qualification as most degree programmes in the first two years need to be completed by being a full-time student.

NIBM has opened their door to answer this concern through this programme, as the UCD degree programme can be completed irrespective of whether one is a full-time or part-time student. Further the time table is flexible and allows students to have a healthy balance between work, study and personal life. This programme allows student to work independently with minimum supervision to find the best solution many organization are faced with in the present world. Also this allows students to be responsible and committed toward achieving their goals.

The final research paper which needs to be independently completed by the student provides practice to implement the theories learnt during the programme. This actually grooms the student to voice their unique and own opinion confidently to others.

Learning environment
NIBM is an education institute that respects values and they drive the key value through their business conduct. Further good discipline is a vital factor for living in any society and it is really nice to see that NIBM is one of the few education institutes in Sri Lanka which practices and maintains high discipline levels. Lastly the degree programme offered by the University College Dublin in collaboration with NIBM allows its student to discover the true potential in them and show the path to proceed to their success.
- Shahana Naufer

Batch -13 - Graduates of BSc in Management /HRM -2011