College of Management Sciences
Our Vision Statement
Our vision is to be the number one institution of higher education in Pakistan.
Our Mission Statement
We are inspired by Joseph Schumpeter’s characterization of the entrepreneur as a heroic figure, a creative destroyer and destructive creator par excellence whose characteristics task is the breaking up and the creation of new traditions. Our mission is to invigorate our faculty and our students with the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for breaking up of old traditions and the creation of new ones. Continuous innovation and change is our motto. We are continually striving to improve and develop. We are willing to experiment and innovate; we are ready to take risk and manage the result of our action.
Degree programs of the College of Management Sciences at KIET offer several distinctive features:
1) High College Rating by Sindh Govt. (CIEC)
2) All round Personality Development
3) Unique Educational Methodologies
8) Disciplined and peaceful learning environment
10) Prosperous Working Opportunities
11) Entrepreneurial Spirit Development
12) Alumni’s
Our business program has now the distinction of taking the lead in incorporating the “entrepreneurship experience” as an integral part of the curriculum. Students joining the BBA and MBA programs automatically become a part of a process that provides the “entrepreneurship experience” through a business startup in groups of up to five students. Each group of students is assigned a project to setup an enterprise during their stay at the institute. The project is linked to strategically designed courses in successive semesters motivates the students and help them in conceiving the idea, planning, financing, marketing and managing the growing enterprise. By the end of the degree program the student has the satisfaction of being the creator of an enterprise and running it.
Research:
We consider research as central hub of our academic activity. Research is the core competence of our full time faculty. Our full time faculty members are either Ph.Ds or are enrolled in MS programs leading to PhD with the objective of developing the capacity for undertaking academic research. This program has been outstandingly successful and has already paid dividends in the form of generating publications in research journals and papers read at international conferences. In the last couple of years, faculty members of KIET have published 19 papers in research journals, presented 27 papers at international conferences and have contributed 9 chapters in international publications.
Market Forces:
Market Forces is an academic research journal published by the College of Management Sciences. This is an open source journal which is internationally indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Sweden. The journal is in its fifth year of publication and is published quarterly. Market Forces has an international advisory board with academics and professionals both from home and aboard. The contents of the journal include research papers, case studies, book reviews, policy papers and conference reports. Market Forces has received wide acclaim from academic and research circles in Pakistan and internationally.
BBA and MBA Programs:
Our curriculum is focused not only on the knowledge base of the students but also on developing their personality, and generating an entrepreneurial spirit among the students. The key difference between an entrepreneur and a manager is that an entrepreneur takes risk (investing his/her time, effort, and money) not only to conceive an idea but also to convert the idea into a commercial venture with the objective of earning economic profits from it. An entrepreneur converts a business idea into a commercial venture that is at the heart of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial spirit can only be acquired by ‘doing the thing’.
Students get involved in an Entrepreneurship Project early on and work on developing their business by the time they graduate. The objective of the entrepreneurial project is to give the student an experience that can act as stepping-stone to encourage graduates to venture into self managed small business enterprises.
Master of Science (MS):
KIET offers a wide range of disciplinary specializations in their MS Program including, Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Production and Operational Management, and Advertising and Media Management and Islamic Finance. The MS Program is for those who want to pursue their career in academia or research and want to continue towards their education towards a terminal degree of PhD. The curriculum has eight courses plus a six credit hours thesis.