The Department of Business Management welcomes you. The Department was established at the inception of the university in 1991. Initially it offered two degree programmes of Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Business Management and Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Marketing. A Master of Science in Marketing was introduced in 2004. The aims of the Department were develop management and marketing skills to undergraduate students in the country and the region. Like all Faculty of Commerce programmes, the degree programmes offered were a departure from the general degree programmes offered by the University of Zimbabwe as these are honours degrees focusing on specialist skills to commerce and industry. The Department’s role and contribution to national development was and is to offer specialist skills in Business Management. Since its establishment the department has made tremendous contributions to industry and commerce nationally and globally. As part of the NUST brand, the department introduced the concept of infusing industry/commerce experience during training (an approach that has since been copied by the rest of the universities and colleges in the country) right at its establishment in 1991.

The Department grew to become the second largest unit at NUST after Mathematics and hence it had to split with the formation of the Department of Marketing in 2013. The Department has also managed to develop managers without ‘A’ level subjects through its Management Development Programme (MDP). Through this programme so many employees in industry and commerce as well as the Public Sector have managed to obtain degree programmes without ‘A’ levels and some of these have gone on join lecturing in some of the local universities and colleges. The Department at some stage offered a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Human Resource Management and is currently in the process of re-introducing this programme so that Human Resource specialists are also trained to cater for the increased need to develop specialist human capital for the nation, region and the world.

Vision

To become a centre of excellence in producing management and human resource practitioners of the highest calibre.

Mission

We develop future managers and human resource professionals for industry, commerce and the public sector.

Values

Our values are:

• Honesty and Integrity;
• Innovativeness;
• Excellence and Diligence;
• Intellectual Freedom;
• Social and Environmental Responsibility.