We seek to be the leading school of management and entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific region, recognized for its learner-centered programs, the quality and relevance of its research, its extensive linkage with industry, and its purposeful influence on private and public governance.
The Business Management program prepares young men and women to become competent managers and entrepreneurs who are fully aware of their social responsibility. The program provides these future professionals with skills in research, opportunity seeking, analysis, and decision-making in the area of business management. Students of the program are taught to be responsive to technological developments, and international economic conditions, and are expected to have the training and motivation necessart to start their own businesses.
The Business Management Program with Applied Corporate Management Thrust is a 12-term program that features three alternate terms of actual experential learning in a real world of work provided by operating companies in the Philippines to enable students to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values of world-class management.
The program follows a schedule of 12 trimesters to complete the course. The first six (6) terms is to be continuously taken at DLSU and the remaining six (6) terms is divided into 3 alternate terms training in the same company (on-the-job training) and three (3) alternate terms at DLSU for the remaining academic courses.
With the growing complexity of the business environment, characterized both by competition and collaboration among businesses, social and political upheavals, and rapid change due to scientific and technological developments, managers of the 21st century should not only have the discipline and technical skills, but also an understanding of management from a holistic rather than a fragmented, highly specialized perspective. They must be able to create a mental model of unity out of diversity and to perceive organizational reality within a wider context.
In response to these new realities, the Business Management Program – a 10-term, 195-unit (183 academic and 12 non-academic) program – prepares young men and women to become competent managers and consultants with a mindset of management as a system of integrated and interrelated parts. Moreover, the program aims to produce a new breed of future ethical business professionals with skills in scientific research, problem analysis, decision-making, and consensus building.