Overview

The origin of what today is known as the Bangladesh Institute of Management (BIM) can be traced back to 1961 when its precursor, the Management Development Centre, East Pakistan, was established. It is the outcome of a tripartite project known as "East Pakistan Management Development, Supervisory and Instructor Training Centre". To establish this project, a plan of operation was signed by the then Government of Pakistan, the United Nations and ILO in 1960. The project came into being on 1.1.1961 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare (Labour and Social Welfare Division) of the then Central Government of Pakistan which was subsequently transferred to the Provincial Government of East Pakistan in December 1963. In the early 90's, the then Bangladesh Management Development Centre (BMDC) was faced with a strategic decision making situation. Due to proliferation of training institutes in both the public sector as well as NGO sector and because of limited client base, the BMDC was faced with stiff competition in the field of short, subject specific training programs. The number of participants per course was dwindling as were the number of courses. Against that backdrop, the BMDC took a far reaching strategic decision to introduce a number of year long, post-graduate diploma courses. Three such academic programs Ñ Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science were introduced. Response to these new diploma programs, particularly for computer science, was encouraging.