About the Faculty

A long lineage in business education

For more than a hundred years, the Faculty of Business Studies has been where Bangladesh's business leaders are made, a legacy of rigour, research, and national impact.

1921 Started as the “Department of Commerce”
A long lineage in business education

Continuity and Evolution

The Faculty is organized around nine academic departments. Each gives a distinct field of business study its own programs, faculty community and disciplinary identity.

The Faculty of Business Studies · University of Dhaka
The Faculty of Business Studies · University of Dhaka

Business spans finance, markets, people, information and risk. Each draws on a different body of knowledge, and serious understanding becomes more specialized as the questions become more specific. The Faculty is organized around that reality, with separate departments, programs and faculty communities for each field of business study.

That depth is applied close to home. Bangladeshi firms, industries, consumers, financial institutions and regulation provide a continuing setting for learning and inquiry. The disciplines themselves belong to a wider body of business knowledge that extends across countries and markets.

From Commerce to Business Studies

More than a century of academic evolution

From a Department of Commerce within the Faculty of Arts to a Faculty of nine departments. Each stage added new fields of business study and greater depth.

  1. 1921

    Department of Commerce

    From a Department of Commerce within the Faculty of Arts to a Faculty of nine departments. Each stage added new fields of business study and greater depth.

  2. 1970

    Becoming an independent Faculty

    Commerce, first taught within the Faculty of Arts in 1922–23, emerges as an independent Faculty with two departments, Management and Accounting.

  3. 1974

    The faculty expands

    The departments of Marketing and Finance are created, broadening the faculty's academic reach across the business disciplines.

  4. 1977

    The semester system arrives

    A structured semester system is introduced, modernising the academic calendar and method of study.

  5. 1995

    Rebranded as Faculty of Business Studies

    B.Com and M.Com give way to BBA and MBA, and the Faculty of Commerce takes its current name, a strategic shift towards a globally integrated business education.

  6. 2004

    New frontiers open

    Banking and Insurance and Management Information Systems are added to the faculty's growing family of departments.

  7. 2007

    Nine departments strong

    Tourism & Hospitality, International Business, and Organization Strategy & Leadership complete the faculty's nine-department structure.

FBS Today

Academic Departments
9
Faculty Members
153
Students
6,100+
Global Libraries Connected
35

What Makes FBS Distinctive

Beyond the classroom

  • Asia's Largest E-Library
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    Asia's Largest E-Library

    Opened in 2015 in partnership with Robi Axiata, the 12,000 sq ft e-library connects students and faculty to Oxford, Cambridge and 33 other university libraries.

  • A Modern Food Court
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    A Modern Food Court

    One of the finest on campus, the FBS food court is a daily hub of conversation and debate, where the students refuels, refines ideas, and builds lifelong friendships.

  • Bureau of Business Research
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    Bureau of Business Research

    The Bureau of Business Research sponsors faculty research across the functional areas of business, alongside dedicated centers for policy, corporate governance and development.

  • Connection to Practice
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    Connection to Practice

    nternships, practice-based seminars, conferences and job fairs bring students into regular contact with professionals across Bangladesh's business sectors.

Campus Life

A campus that lives and breathes ideas

Two academic buildings, an administrative block, and an auditorium house the daily life of the faculty, classrooms, seminars, debates, and the countless conversations in between that shape the leaders of tomorrow.

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