Department of Business Administration - College of Administration and Economics

About the department

The Department of Business Administration has a long history, dating back to the establishment of the College of Commerce and Economics in 1946-1947. Originally, the college provided general education in the field only. However, in 1955-1956, the Department of Commercial Sciences was formed, which consisted of both the Accounting and Banking branch as well as Insurance. The following academic year department split into two sections, one of which was the Department of Commercial Sciences. Nevertheless, in 1957-1958, the section was eliminated, returning the study to its pre-1955 state. In 1963, the College of Commerce was created as an independent entity, and for four years, the college provided a general education across three departments, including the Department of Business Administration. In 1968, when the College of Administration and Economics was established in its current form, it began in 1969, when the study for the field was of five years, and then of four years since 1975. The Department of Business Administration was one of its most prominent departments, and it consisted of two branches:

Business Administration branch: It includes business administration and accounting majors
General Administration Branch

Subsequently, in 1974, the Accounting Branch was established, and then in 1976, the Commercial Teachers Training Branch. Thus, the Business Administration Department became composed of four branches. In the academic year 1982-1983, the branch of Public Administration and Business Administration were merged into one branch called Administration, and then the department became composed of three divisions instead of four, namely: the Administration, Accounting, and trade teaching branch.

In the year 1987-1988, the above branches became independent scientific departments, and the Business Administration Department still stands today.

In terms of postgraduate studies, we will provide a brief summary of the development of the department scientifically and chronologically:

The department was established in the academic year 1955/1956.
The master’s degree program in Business Administration opened in 1973/1974.
PhD study in business administration was opened in 1987.
The study for a higher diploma –not equivalent to a master’s degree– in Hospital Management, opened in 1999.
The Master’s degree program in Nursing Administration opened in 2002.
The study of a higher diploma equivalent to a master’s degree in municipal administration was opened in 2011.
A higher diploma study –not equivalent to a Master’s degree – in Control and Inspection opened in 2012, which turned into a Master’s degree in Performance Evaluation in 2014.
The study of a higher diploma –not equivalent to a master’s degree– in Strategic Planning was opened in 2013.

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The department’s vision

Contribute to the future of the field of business

The department’s message

Productive and innovative businessmen who are capable of establishing their own productions.

The Department of Business Administration believes that learning management and converting it into effective practices contributes to structuring an industrialized developed society, for it is after all the precedence of the individual. Therefore, the department seeks to enable individuals to manage their businesses efficiently, and to provide useful and productive knowledge to public and private organizations through: preliminary and postgraduate studies, conducting scientific research, providing consulting and designing Advanced systems. Moreover, the department is a prominent school for pioneers that teaches, as well as is taught by generations to be a symbol of anthropological and intellectual benevolence.

Department Objectives

Developing students’ competencies to keep up with work demands in the business field.
Embedding the students’ with a leading personality and developing it further to deal with individuals in the work environment.
Acquisition of additional knowledge supporting the administrative specialization to enable students to deal with business challenges.
Enabling the student to be creative and think ingeniously.
Developing students’ abilities and talents to use technological information in real situations.
The ability to deal with business environment alterations and face emergency situations and calamities.
Establishing a systematic base for scientific research that generates specialized knowledge of the local and global market.

Acceptance Inputs

According to the central admission of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the department accepts secondary schools graduates according to competitive grade :