De La Salle University - Manila

Academic Departments

Accountancy

The Accountancy program prepares students for careers in accounting and related fields, and makes them ready to deal effectively with the problems they will face as profesional accountants and responsible citizens. The program aims to develop the qualities that enhance the student's professional competence, awareness of his responsibilities to society and appreciation of an accountant's high standard of integrity and objectivity.

Business Management

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.

Commercial Law

Intended to provide employment opportunities and at the same time be an ideal preparation for admission to the College of Law, the Commercial Law program introduces students to the many facets of Philippine Law, substantive and procedural, with Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Labor and Social Legislation such as fields of concentration, complemented by basic subjects in Business Management designed to equip students with general principles of management and business policies. The program offers students in business as they are to undergo Legal Internship in their last term. In essence, Commercial Law approximates a paralegal academic program.

Economics

The Department of Economics aims to answer the demand for professionals who are well-versed in economic principles, policies, and research methodologies. The Department gives students a liberal education program intimately intertwined with logic, mathematics, and other social sciences such as sociology, psychology, history, and politics.

Financial Management

The Management of Financial Institutions (MFI) program was launched in 1976 to answer the financial management needs of Philippine financial intermediaries and other Philippine businesses. While the major focus of the original program which seeks to develop graduates with excellent decision making, problem solving and analytical abilities remain basically unchanged, the present program aims to support the MFI vision in response to the formidable challenges of the financial services industry.

Marketing Management

Marketing Management is designed to develop students for entrepreneurial or corporate work in marketing management and for them to be trainable for higher responsibilities in the same firm. The students are taught the theories and concepts in the classroom, and then they are given training on the practical aspects of the various areas of marketing by exposure to actual work situations through assignments in organizations (either for profit or non-profit).